Digital picture manipulation programmes.

I use paintshop pro, but you could download the Gimp, it's free so you've got nothing to loose.

http://www.gimp.org/
or...
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/

Howard
Photoshop 4 is very good. I purchased it a month ago on ebay at a fraction of the price, and have had no problems whatsoever.

Ian

I use Paint Shop Pro which I got free from a magazine. Works well for me.

Milan

Thanks guys. I have D/L Gimp I find it a bit complicated and confusing,so will have to persevere. I'll still keep and eye out for any alternatives though.

Howard

quote:

Originally posted by BigH47:
Photoshop seems to be the standard but there is no way I'm spending that sort of money.
Is Elements 4 good? Does it do more than Paint or Irfanview etc?
How good or easy are any of these programmes at getting rid of moire effect and internal reflection spots?

Thanks

Howard

Eric my man does not know any thing about this BTW.

What exactly do you want to do???
For my money, Irfanview (yes it is freeware ) is all I need to crop/resize/resample and view images...

If you want to create digital masterpieces - or are stuck on a MacIntish, then you need to cough for paintshop.

Pete

Howard

I can't answer your specific questions about Moire pattern or reflection removal but this may help a little.

I have used Elements on both PC and Mac (not an advanced user) and it does way more than I need.

Cheers

Jim

You cannot reasonably remove reflection espcially if its light, remember any pictures you take can afford to be alittle dark, manipulation program will bring it out. But if its to light, i.e. and area of flash reflection, well all you have there is white pixels nothing can rescue it.

As for moire you need to use gaussian blur.

For the money I would got for Elements 4, it really is a cut above the rest.

GIMP is rubbish and the interface sucks, best left.

One alternative - picture window. It's designed for photos and nothing more rather than being a full graphics editing package. The interface is a bit clunky (you can tell that at some point it was a Dos based program), but I found I could do what I wanted to much quicker than with photoshop, which for me at least was very un-intuitive and therefore requires a big investment in effort before you can get the best out of it.

I've used this for a while and it does all the basics pretty well and some things very well (such as keeping files in full 16 bit throughout rather than simplifying down to 8 bit which photoshop does at various points).

I think there's a trial available at www.dl-c.com

I've used it for a few years, I guess my only reservation in recommending it is that photoshop is such a standard that you may be better to invest the effort in learning your way round it rather than learning something else.

Phil

BigH47,

I would recommend the full version Photoshop 6. It can be bought for peanuts on Ebay.

Thanks again guys some more good info.

Howard