Photo viewer/editor

[Proto]

Anyone care to recommend a simple photo viwer/editor? I'm not talking Photoshop here, just something for resizing, adjustsing brighness, contrast and so on, and a decent viewer.

For ages I have been using ACDSee, but it seems to have been corrupted and is now unuseable.

Happy to put my hand in my pocket, but not too deeply!

Ta.

 

[Piemaster]

Picassa has some simple tools, organiser and web album space. But you need a google account to get best from it.
GIMP is a more powerful open source editor. Far more powerful than i need for similar use to you.

 

[theloafer]

this is what i use http://irfanview.com/
Irfanview
This extremely versatile and exceptionally well-designed image manipulation, graphics editing and multi-media handling program is loaded with such an extensive collection of tools, features and capabilities that it easily eclipses many of the expensive, store-bought, 'professional' alternatives.
On top of all that, you can expand Irfanview's already enormous feature-set even further by downloading the "All plug-ins" module and perusing the extensive list of tutorials available at the main site.

Note: Install the plug-ins only after you have installed the main program.
pm me if ya need instructions

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Photoscape aint bad. we use irfanview at work for simple resizing resampling tasks. part of our 'standard build'

 

[bikepete]

+1 Irfanview.
Interface perhaps not the most intuitive at first but very fast, and has great batch processing functions amongst much else.

 

[Norm]

I've got GIMP, Irfanview and Photoshop but, for the re-sizing and adjusting brightness and contrast which you mention, I nearly always just use the tools built in to Windows.

Between them, Picture Manager, Live Photo Gallery and even Paint are compact, quick and do the job of a "simple photo viewer/editor" pretty well. And they are free.

 

[numbnuts]

+3 Irfanview

 

[Speck]

+1 PICASA3

 

[swee'pea99]

Photofiltre - freeware, very small and not hungry on resources. Does everything you want perfectly, easily, intuitively.

 

[Davidc]

PhotoImpact is good

 

[amnesia]

This is by far the most useful app I have on my Windows PC...

http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

even supports RAW

 

[Proto]

Blimey, spoilt for choice. I like the look of the last one. Thanks all.

 

[amnesia]

The photo resizer tool is also very good - add borders, logos, watermarks, resize any pictures in batch.

 

[swee'pea99]

That Faststone does look good.