Looking for an alternative to Paint Shop Pro/Photoshop?

Just for basic photo editing....nothing fancy.

Preferably NOT bloatware.

Thanks.

 

Picasa from Google, but maybe it is too basic. Irfanview is a complete program.

 

Hello,

You should try GIMP - that's a real image suite.
http://www.gimp.org/

Simple tasks, IrfanView:
http://www.irfanview.com/

Mrk

 

XnView IMHO has great simple tools for crop and resizing, sharpening, colour balance etc.

If you need more than that then use the Gimp. It does 95% of what photoshop does and some stuff photoshop can't do, both have far more features than you will never need for basic photo editting.

 

Photofiltre

/C.

 

Some freebies I use...

Paint.NET (needs .NET Framework 2 on the PC to run) http://www.getpaint.net/index.html
FastStone Image Viewer http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

Already mentioned:
IrfanView
Picasa2

The Gimp seems quite capable but IMO, the GUI is not easily mastered. I tried it for about a week and gave up.

 

If GIMP's GUI isn't something you like, try GIMPshop - GIMP with a Photoshop replica GUI.

http://www.gimpshop.com/index.shtml

 

Another vote for Paint.NET or XnView depending how much editting you want.

 

Paint.Net & Photofiltre

 

If you dont do color separations,prepare for press and working i n a colormanaged environment then anything outside Photoshop is useable.

 

I too was looking for a Photoshop replacement. For what I was doing, PS was just too complicated. i.e. basic image clean-up, cropping... I tried several apps, Gimp, Paint.net, they were good, but still more than I actually needed. I tried Photofiltre. It fit my needs perfectly.

Give it a try.

...screamer