Re: Consumer Reports rated digital photo editors including freeware

 On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 20:06:29 -0500, M.L. wrote:


What I like about Irfanview is not the "editing" capability but the sheer
speed in viewing pictures. Is any freeware photo "viewer" as fast as
Irfanview? I think not.

So, it's no wonder Consumer Reports didn't rate it well then nor now as
it's not really a freeware photo editor such as Gimp.

By the way, speaking of Gimp, how come Consumer Reports didn't even test
Gimp as a freeware photo editor. I'll bet it beats photoshop in
functionality and price!

  @newssvr25.news.prodigy.net:


Well there is Faststone image browser.  I'm not too familier with
Ifranview, I prefer Xnveiw myself.  Faststone has a browser theat is
simular to Xnview/Ifranview.  But Faststone has some nice added
features.  I tend to use Xnview for file conversions and Faststone
for browsing, e-mailing, slide shows, etc.

 catherine yronwode wrote:

They were only looking at "low-end" photo editors (e.g., PS Elements).

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 Barry L. Wallis wrote:


Elements has one tool that makes it worthwhile -- the thingy that enables
you to remove big dust spots and hair and blemishes from uniform-color
things like sky.  I liked it so much I went back and edited several hundred
scanned slides that I could never get clean enough.

Picasa is also good -- the red-eye thing is sufficient justification for its
existence, even if the interface is kind of sucky;  what idiot thought to
use a gas pedal instead of a slider for a scrollbar?

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 catherine yronwode wrote in part:


The Gimp is not freeware, by a strict definition of that term.

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