What's the SIMPLEST free photo editing software?

Question

My father (65) has recently got into digital photography, and would like to edit some of his photos on his computer.

He doesn't want to pay for photo editing software, and he'd be scared by anything complicated. If it can crop and fix red-eye, that would be great. If it lets him fiddle with brightness/contrast in quite a basic way, or make his photos black and white, that would be even better, but that's as far as he'll go.

If it has massive menus with bewildering options, he just won't use it. He doesn't want to work with layers, or apply complex filters, or convert from RAW (his point-n-shoot just takes jpegs), or any of that. Just make his snapshots look a bit better, not create works of art.

What do you recommend?

Answer 1

well the simplest is ms paint

Answer 2

I'd suggest you check out GIMP

http://www.gimp.org/features/

Answer 3

Hi, my recommendations are below:

1. Photoscape

Website: http://www.photoscape.org

Direct Download: http://download.photoscape.org/PhotoScap...

Some Features:

Viewer: View your folders photos, slideshow

Editor: resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, backlight correction, frames, balloons, mosaic mode, adding text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal, blooming

Batch editor: Batch editing multiple photos

2. Paint.Net

Website: http://www.getpaint.net/

Direct Download: http://www.dotpdn.com/downloads/pdnsrc.h...

Short Description:

Paint.NET includes simple tools for drawing shapes, including an easy-to-use curve tool for drawing splines or Bezier curves. The Gradient tool, new for 3.0, has been cited as an innovative improvement over similar tools provided by other software. The facilities for creating and working with selections is powerful, yet still simple enough to be picked up quickly. Other powerful tools include the Magic Wand for selecting regions of similar color, and the Clone Stamp for copying or erasing portions of an image. There is also a simple text editor, a tool for zooming, and a Recolor tool.



Good Luck! Happy Editing!

Nick~

Answer 4

How abut this

http://www.download.com/Paint-NET/3000-2...

Answer 5

the microsoft version its very simple

Answer 6

nick t,has got it spot on.

Answer 7

Coral Photoshop X2, you get a free 30-day trial its really good software. Otherwise Flikr's one is okay I guess. It has everything you need =)

Answer 8

Google picasa is easy, or mac's iPhoto is easy as well.

Answer 9

paint shop pro is not free but it is inexpensive and can be found at circuit city

I am including a link to free photo editing software

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/pixelba...

Answer 10

Simply for the basics I'd recommend Photobucket.

It does all the things you mentioned - fixes red eye, crops and colour contrasts and also as your father may grow in confidence it also has a 'geek' section for more professional elements of editing photo's.

Good luck.

Answer 11

lunapic.com it's online you don't have to download it

Answer 12

Hope this helps