free graphics programs?

Sankofa · Post by **Sankofa** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 10:27 am

My old computer had Microsoft Picture It Express, which was pretty simple to use and offered enough features to make it useful. New computer has nothing of the sort on it and I was wondering if you had any recommendations? Friends have mentioned photoGIMP, but the learning curve is beyond me.

Thanks in advance.

citizen · Post by **citizen** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 12:59 pm

sadly gimp is about the best free imaging program that is worth anything, i guess it depends on what you are doing

Sigma · Post by **Sigma** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 1:52 pm

Is it just photo editing stuff you're after? If so, have a look at these: -

http://www.getpaint.net/
http://picasa.google.com/
http://www.irfanview.com/

Sankofa · Post by **Sankofa** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:22 pm

I'm looking to crop, adjust brightness/contrast, add font, shapes, etc.

drug · Post by **drug** » Sat Jan 23, 2010 1:15 am

irfanview can do all that but as you get into the adding fonts and shapes area i'm not so sure.

(never used it) but what about openoffice specifically the draw app?

Sankofa · Post by **Sankofa** » Sat Jan 23, 2010 7:53 am

I have openoffice's drawing program, but can't make heads or tails of it. Looks like it's time to move on.

cenzi · Post by **cenzi** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 4:07 am

citizen wrote:sadly gimp is about the best free imaging program that is worth anything, i guess it depends on what you are doing

nothing sad about this. Gimp is pretty decent.

Sankofa · Post by **Sankofa** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 8:55 am

cenzi wrote:
citizen wrote:sadly gimp is about the best free imaging program that is worth anything, i guess it depends on what you are doing
nothing sad about this. Gimp is pretty decent.

The "sadly" was in reference to my previously mentioned inability to navigate getting stuff done with Gimp, not in regards to the program itself.