Best free photo editing programme?

Taking the picture correctly

paint.net

claptrappers_union wrote:Taking the picture correctly

Neither helpful or accurate. I take my photography seriously and every photo goes through Photoshop, either just for minor tweaks or to create something completely different. I get fed up with people stating that photoshop users don’t know how to take a photo properly. Photoshop is not for recovering a poorly taken shot but for enhancing a well taken one

GIMP

Picasa is free and not bad for basic editing....Gimp is an excellent photo editing software programme and it is still free.

https://www.gimp.org/downloads/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Assuming you're looking at just touching up photos you've taken, etc then I'd look at https://www.polarr.co/editor/0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; or https://pixlr.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Both are relatively straightforward to use and give decent results

GIMP can do a lot but isn't at all intuitive and is overkill for the more basic stuff.

Pixlr as mentioned above by aggi. Can be accessed anywhere online. Free and a great Photoshop substitute.

Paint

paint.net is free and I've always found it (thankfully) really easy to use and effective.

Stproc wrote:Neither helpful or accurate. I take my photography seriously and every photo goes through Photoshop, either just for minor tweaks or to create something completely different. I get fed up with people stating that photoshop users don’t know how to take a photo properly. Photoshop is not for recovering a poorly taken shot but for enhancing a well taken one

Or for those shooting in RAW where basic editing is a necessity when compressing the data.

As said GIMP, but it's fairly complex to use.

Caernarfon_Claret wrote:Or for those shooting in RAW where basic editing is a necessity when compressing the data.

As said GIMP, but it's fairly complex to use.

Sorry I thought someone was calling the poster a GIMP for wanting advice..... never heard of it... have now though...
I still use paint.net

Paint.net - For basic tasks: cropping, resizing, brightness/contrast etc.
GIMP - If you want to get into layers and more advanced stuff.

If you're doing lots of work Photoshop & Lightroom for about £10 a month is quite reasonable IMO.

Bosscat wrote:
Sorry I thought someone was calling the poster a GIMP for wanting advice..... never heard of it... have now though...
I still use paint.net

Stands for: GNU Image Manipulation Program

It's open source.

For advanced users though rather than those like me who easily get lost.