Photo software

[NickyPick]

What is a good photo software? I have inherited Microsoft Picture It, but I'm not too thrilled with it. What's popular and good to work with?

Rae

[toriaj]

Most popular is probably Adobe Photoshop Elements 5. Also very good is Corel Paint Shop Pro XI. They are both around $100, less if you get the older versions. If you are looking for free, Picasa is excellent. If you have $600, Photoshop CS2 is the top-of-the-line, as far as I know.

I just bought Photoshop X. Spent $69.99, comes with $30 rebate. Should arrive pretty soon, although I bought it from Amazon with Super Saver Shipping (read: takes forever.) :(

[Paul79UF]

I use ThumbsPlus from Cerious Software for organizing, resizing, batch functions, and some editing/correction. For more serious needs, I use Photoshop 7.


check out thumbplus, I've been using it for years.
http://www.cerious.com/

[wh0128]

Adobe Photoshop 7/CS/CS2, Adobe Photoshop Elements 5 like stated above, Adobe Lightroom (should be comeing out around next year but well worth the wait, its fast and gets your photos read fast), Capture NX from Nikon. These are all very good and efficient programs though CS2 is really expensive, but I'm sure you might be able to buy an older version for cheap. And I know PS Elements is really cheap but does some limited things that Photoshop can do. I have also heard of Bibble, but havn't used it, and if you have a Mac which you didn't state, you could get Apple's Aperture.

Pricing you would have to go look it up yourself, sorry.

[krzkrzkrz]

What is a good photo software? I have inherited Microsoft Picture It, but I'm not too thrilled with it. What's popular and good to work with?

Rae

In addition to what has been suggested already..

Photo software for organising your photos? I would recommend Picassa2, by Google. Its free and highly integrates with their online photo service, PicassaWeb.

For photo editing and manipulation, I would recommend Photoshop. Otherwise, The Gimp if you are looking for a free alternative.

Krz

[AlexMonro]

I can also highly reccomend The Gimp for image editing. It does everything I want to do, and you can't beat the price!:)

[RichNY]

The more I learn Aperature, the more I like the logic behind its operation. At the NYC photo show today the Apple booth had a large stage set up to show portrait techniques with a male and female model.

The photographer was shooting a 5D tethered to a Mac running Aperature... Really impressive how easily data flowed thru Aperaure and then into iPhoto for use in the fun stuff like calanders and into blogs, etc.

[Rhys]

I use Canon's DPP and of course Photoshop Elements 2.

Some people like The Gimp but personally I cannot stand it.

[Colin T]

I use Arcsoft PhotoStudio2000. It comes with virtually every Canon scanner or multifunction centre and seems to work resonably well. However I don't do much editing of pics, they are either good or crap.