Digital cameras forum: Photo processing software

The GIMP (see google.com) A lot of tutorials are available and if you look you'll find The GIMPShop (photoshop work alike.)

Next if you can find it, the PALMONE Desktop software has been noted for it's redeye removal. I'll just note that it's a freebie but decline to find or comment further.

Finally, Picassa is free at http://picasa.google.com

Bob

Elements sells for about $80 and is my favorite.

It has the easiest to use red-eye removal I have found.
Fixes red-eye with ease.
Select the red-eye tool.
Draw a square around the eye and the red-eye is gone.

I believe the latest version is PhotoShop Elements 5.

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Just read your opinion of Photo Elements as your choice (suppose you meant 5?). What I'd like to see is a complilation of 100s of Editors and Moderators opinions as to their THE BEST Editing (primarily) pay to play software.

I've pretty much pared it down to the fore-mentioned 2. Seen the price all over from $39xx- $89xx. For either. Been using Picassa2, Sony, MS, HP and others, all free to use. Need something with meat, with more, many more tools than the freebies.

Using Sony Vaio RB44g, Pentium 4, 640, 3.2mhz, 1gb, Windows Media Center 2005

Need layering ability, et al, with the help aides promised by Corel. Not new to digital photography or printing or SLR film cameras. Doesn't have to be <$100 but rather it was. At present have little need for video help other than using freeze frame or single stills from clip.

The little symbol shows you as a moderator, but doesn't qualify you as expert. Leaning on you and your contacts, editors word of mouth for the final vote-- Elements 5 or Paintshop XI= 1 must be superior.

Please give it some thought and more than a line or two.

Thanks in advance.

bj

I doubt that you will find many people who have used both PhotoShop Elements 5 and Paintshop Photo XI.

I have not used Paintshop Photo XI.

I have a copy of PhotoShop Elements 2, 3 and 4.

I did not buy version 5, as it did not add anything that I needed.

I also bought a copy of PhotoShop CS2.
But I use PhotoShop Elements for 95% of my needs.

I had previously used Ulead Photoimpact 6.
It was OK, but.....limited.

Sorry, I can not help you with determining the superiority of the two programs you are interested in.

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in my opinion, Adobe Photoshop Elements 5 ($80 upgrade, $100 full) for the average home user and Adobe Photoshop CS2 ($170 upgrade, $650 full) for the professional. Elements 5 has most the features from Photoshop CS2 that the home user would need; thus, the name Elements.

When I first wrote, I wasn't really expecting someone to make up my nud for me-- just hoping for a consensus. I bought Corel Paintshop XI, in fact just signed for the package this am.

I was tired of using the free stuff. I thought I had everything I needed with Picassa-- Pre picassa2 and google days. And the myriad of others I'ved tried, and many of those offer great red-eye edit. No more free for me. Paid $53 for on an E-Bay Store, GRS Systems, qualifying for a $15 PayPal rebate in the bargain. I feel I be happy for a few years at least.

Thanks for the votes.

Photoshop will easily superimpose images with its layer function. You can even resize and adjust transparency, cut out unwanted sections and smooth out edges, etc.

But you probably should use a specialized software for astrophotography to make your life a lot easier. Some examples are Images Plus, MaxDSLR, AstroArt, etc. Many of these have stacking functions (to superimpose your images).

Here is a free software link (I have not tried it though):
http://www.astrosurf.org/buil/us/iris/iris.htm

I've been using Photoshop Elements for a couple years and currently have Elements 4. It's a very good program and there are a great number of books available to assist in learning the program.

The absolute best red eye remover I have found came with my Canon camera, called ZoomBrowser EX. Edit/ red eye/ manual mode puts a small circle over the red eye when you move the cursor over the picture. This allows correction of the redye only, not squares drawn over the eye or, worse yet, correcting the entire picture. Other features are somewhat limited so I installed GIMP last week. Have not used it but it looks like it is very similar to Photoshop. If it works that good I will be satisfied with that freebie.

PolyView (Polybytes.com) will provide all the capabilities you specify, plus it's an excellent sorter/organizer.

All the basic functions you want are in the free version. The full version is well worth the $30 license fee.

--Wazmo