Photo viewing and editing freeware

[bigbaz]

Does anyone have any recommendations for basic photo viewing and editing freeware? Thanks

[salubrious_k]

I've never used it, but GIMP is meant to be an excellent freeware alternative to Photoshop.

http://www.gimp.org/

[loz]

Also Google Picasa is very useful.

[jmbrailsford]

Hi,

I second Picasa too, it's free and a lot of the shots taken in my album were processed using it until I got Lightroom. But for speed and easiness of use Picasa is excellent especially if only just starting out.

I had a look at Gimp a while back and gave up, preferred Picasa at the time.

Mike.

[Zone]

My old favourite Irfanview with Optikverve plug-in for extra usability

[Gordon D]

I like Faststone image viewer from here : http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

[Pirate!!]

Silkypix (free version) - select Windows or Mac versions.

Adobe Photoshop 3.2 Starter Edition.