OT: Photo Software suggestion for eldery lady?

Irfanview used to be quite simple to use (and free!) Looking at the website it appears he's added a lot of features since I used it years ago but it still might be more straightforward than Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. (Plus it's still free so if it's not what you're looking for you won't lose any money on it.)

Don't know if you consider this uncomplicated, but my DH, the household geek, set mine up. In addition to Photoshop and another one I can't remember, I have Polyview. Doesn't do too much fancy stuff, but you can easily look at photos and make slideshows out of e.g. a CD-full. I also have Power Desk, one of my favorite programs. Shows absolutely everything in any directory, even the things an individual program says it can't find. All the program icons are lined up at the top of the screen, easy to drag any file to a program to open it, or just double click on a file. Unzips files with no fuss. And you can move or copy files to other directories by dragging and dropping, very straightforward for the technologically impaired. Roberta in D

"Lotsoflavender" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news: snipped-for-privacy@corp.supernews.com...

I use Camedia for "tweeking" my photos. Notice I didn't say "geeking" as this is a simple program but it allows you to rotate, crop, enlarge, elimate redeye, and probably some other stuff that I haven't used yet. It came with my camera and I would guess that it is available as a stand alone product. It might be worth a look see.

John

I use Picasa2 which I got from Google. It is also free and does uncomplicated things. The reason I got it and not another program was that it is from a trusted source.

Adobe has Photoshop Elements which is easy to use and incorporates most of what anyone would need for adjusting photos.

L>I appologise most profusely for going way OT but I'm formatting and setting

Now I *AM* a Photoshop geek, but I would have to second your opinion ... nothing equals Photoshop (either the pro version or Elements) in terms of compatibility, creativity, and versatility. I'm fair sure that PE is supposed to be very simple to learn .. only drawback is that it isn't free.

On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 05:31:24 -0500, Lotsoflavender wrote (in article ):

I use iPhoto, but I think that's probably Mac only.

Maureen

It is free, efficient and does what I think you are looking for. It was recommended by someone on info-eq, I think many on that lsit use it now.

Mary

I've been experimenting with picnik. It looks new and came highly recommended.

joan

Perhaps Photoshop Album Starter Edition. It's free from

Julia > I appologise most profusely for going way OT but I'm formatting and setting

My HP printer had a photo editing software with it. It is very simple to use. I also use PhotoShop, but I use my HP also for just simple things.

Sherry Starr

Goodness, thank you everyone, I got up this morning to all these fabulous suggestions, so now I'm going to download what I can and have a look at them..........that should keep me busy for a wee while. Might even find summat I'd like to use. The lady I'm setting up the computer for lost her husband about 4 months ago and then her computer died as well. Fortunately another friend of mine has just bought himself a new one, so we're "recycling" his old one. Thanks very much everyone.....much appreciated Wendy in Nsw

But if you have a Mac, you probably have iPhoto, right? It's pretty good for basic editing. :)

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:39:44 -0500, Sandy wrote (in article ):

I have to second iPhoto for basic editing. Does a good job and is pretty simple to use.

Maureen