Photo editing software.

[D L and K's Mom]

I am looking for a nice photo editing program. I would like it to just take care of red-eye and have a few other editing tools. I just had a friend take some wonderful shots of my daughter and when she printed them she had the whole photo in black and white except the flowers my little one was holding. I have not gotten around to asking what program she used...anyone. I dont really need anything really fancy.

 

[jann1033]

you can get photoshop elements for under a hundred ( i think elements 5 is around $50 ish now) and be able to do lots with it. i think any program ie , elements, corel paint etc with layers would let you do it (basically you make a new copy or layer of your photo in the program so you have 2 photos , and erase either the part you want color or black and white( which ever is less) from the one layer. then when you put the 2 together on top of each other you'll see the bit of color and rest black and white as one photo) look for a free trial download at adobe.com

 

[Flanigan]

There's a pretty nice free piece of software that'll let you remove red eye, desaturate the color form images except for selected items, etc... It's called GIMP. It's what I use, and if nothing else, it's worth a try before spending money on software. You can get it here

To reduce red-eye it's simple as selecting the area, clicking filters->enhance->remove redeye

 

[DueyDooDah]

Picassa, from Google, is getting pretty powerful. It will do what you are asking for, and quite a bit more. And, it's free. Alot easier to use that some tools out there.

Here's a video about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rskC6c_5L1M

Here's the site to download the software. Note that you can get version 2 or the beta version 3.

http://picasa.google.com/index.html

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[Papa Deuce]

Picassa, from Google, is getting pretty powerful. It will do what you are asking for, and quite a bit more. And, it's free. Alot easier to use that some tools out there.

Here's a video about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rskC6c_5L1M

Here's the site to download the software. Note that you can get version 2 or the beta version 3.

http://picasa.google.com/index.html

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That a great one! But also Adobe now has a free one that includes online storage... does a little more than Picassa.

https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html

 

[ukcatfan]

There is also Irfanview for a decent free basic editor.

 

[jann1033]

i don't see where either picassa 3 or the adobe free will do selective coloring? in the editor of p3 it has a cheezy color blob where the rest is b&w, maybe it is better in person?

 

[ukcatfan]

i don't see where either picassa 3 or the adobe free will do selective coloring? in the editor of p3 it has a cheezy color blob where the rest is b&w, maybe it is better in person?

I have never used either of those, but you can do selective coloring in The Gimp.