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New computer - photo editing programme?
« on: Sunday 07 August 11 13:04 BST (UK) »
I have just had to buy a new laptop in a bit of a rush.  Now need to do some photo editing again in a rush.  But it does not seem to have a good photo/edit programme!  I personally do not get on the windows set up for photo editing.  Does anyone know of a free, easy to use photo editor, please?
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The computer is an HP G7 Laptop

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Re: New computer
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 07 August 11 13:26 BST (UK) »
You could look at Paint.net

Its free.

http://www.paint.net/

There are other programs about.

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Re: New computer
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 07 August 11 13:50 BST (UK) »
I use a mixture of  Paint.net for simple things - and gimp for other bits

http://www.gimp.org/

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Re: New computer - photo editing programme?
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 07 August 11 14:34 BST (UK) »

 Hi Abriam,

    Click on this link for some good Freebies.

    http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/

     They do tend to plague you a little bit with e-mails

   for other products. but it's no big deal.

   Click on the more info button at the top for Photoplus.

    It's a very good programme and has some good tutorials.

    Tomkin ;D

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Re: New computer - photo editing programme?
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 07 August 11 16:24 BST (UK) »
Microsoft's ICE - a free panorama stitching program - is worth the download.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/

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Re: New computer - photo editing programme?
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 07 August 11 18:23 BST (UK) »
I also like Gimp but for just your usual cropping, autofix type stuff I like Irfanview http://www.irfanview.com/. Be sure to download the plugins and it will open and edit just about any kind of image you can think of.

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Re: New computer - photo editing programme?
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 07 August 11 19:18 BST (UK) »
Zoner Photo Studio Free http://free.zoner.com/

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Re: New computer - photo editing programme?
« Reply #7 on: Monday 08 August 11 07:50 BST (UK) »
Thank you all.   In the end I found Serif Photo Plus starter pack which did what I wanted it to.  After a very frustrating day! 
Thanks again,
Abiam2
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