newbies photo imaging software

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I just was given a Nikon 3500 Coolpix digital camera.
It came with a viewer and some editing software. I am interested in the most
"user friendly" software which will allow me to crop, edit (burn into cd?)
and share photos...preferably using wizards ...even at the cost of quality
of photos or features...

any suggestions? don't forget ease of use and sharing is big thing to me..
 
I just was given a Nikon 3500 Coolpix digital camera.
It came with a viewer and some editing software. I am interested in
the most "user friendly" software which will allow me to crop, edit
(burn into cd?) and share photos...preferably using wizards ...even
at the cost of quality of photos or features...

any suggestions? don't forget ease of use and sharing is big thing to
me..
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Irfanview is fairly easy editing/viewing software
http://www.irfanview.com/
This is a *fairly* simple CD burning app:
http://w1.878.telia.com/~u87812405/

As for sharing; this app converts a directory full of images into an
automatic website and resizes them at the same time:
http://tratz.dyndns.org/thumbcreator/
....then you just need an FTP app to upload them to the web:
This one's fairly basic:
http://www.ipswitch.com/support/ws_ftp_le_support.html
 
Norm at Home - 26.07.2003 02:09 :
Thank you very much, I appreciate it.
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also this posting is another terrible example:

1. full quoting of 45! lines (snipped) only for posting "Thank you very
much, I appreciate it."

2. Text over quoting

Please learn to quote: http://learn.to/quote

Thanks.
 
Norm at Home - 26.07.2003 02:09 :


also this posting is another terrible example:

1. full quoting of 45! lines (snipped) only for posting "Thank you very
much, I appreciate it."

2. Text over quoting

Please learn to quote: http://learn.to/quote

Thanks.
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1. The guy said he was a beginner
2. At least he said thank you.
3. Did you count the lines?
 
-½cut said:
130179.news.uni-berlin.de:
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1. The guy said he was a beginner
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Who better to give some tips to? It's the guy who's proud of doing it
the wrong way for 15 years that's not going to get clued. The newbie
can still *be* clued.
 
Who better to give some tips to? It's the guy who's proud of doing it
the wrong way for 15 years that's not going to get clued. The newbie
can still *be* clued.
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This is true. However, it was the *manner* of clueing that I was
objecting to mainly. It was rude, bordering on obnoxious; and wasn't
really a warm welcome to alt.comp.freeware. Further, there was no
positive input to help sort out the guy's question...I'm sure that there
are probably better/easier to use appz out there than the ones I
suggested, and the pooling of knowledge is surely what this group is for.
If you arrive in a new (to you) group, ask a question, and your only
replies are (say) pulling you up on your spelling and grammar then the
most likely response is to reply with equal rudeness, or not reply/return
at all.

The objections were:
As regards point 1. Who cares? It was question/answer/thanks, and the
thread was unlikely to go any further (unless somebody stepped in and
started flaming, that is). Fair enough, it's a bad habit to get into,
and can be a nightmare in long threads, but in this context it was
harmless.

Point 2 - top posting. I believe the top v. bottom posting argument is
still raging somewhere in this ng. I prefer posting at the bottom
myself, but I'm not going to get all anal about it if somebody doesn't
share my preferences. And I'm not yet so far gone -thank christ- that
I'm going to start waving FAQs about that are, after all, just somebody's
distilled opinions.

Nah, it's another example of the same thing that I've been whingeing
about since I arrived - people slapping others down INSTEAD of helping
them. There are so many different points of netiquette, and -more to the
point- so many different opinions about what that netiquette should be
that there's probably no such thing as a perfect post that can't be
objected to by somebody. And people who get their jollies/exercise their
PMS by picking on newbies who lack the confidence to answer back are
insensitive goits who should go out and get themselves a hobby IMO.
 
This is true. However, it was the *manner* of clueing that I was
objecting to mainly. It was rude, bordering on obnoxious; and wasn't
really a warm welcome to alt.comp.freeware. Further, there was no
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The clue provider said please *and* thanks, fer crissakes.

<snip>

Clues will be gives. Moods at the time will vary. You'll have less
ulcers if you learn to live with that.

And that was a *very* mild clue application. You'll come to see that if
you last on Usenet very long.
 
And people who get their jollies/exercise their
PMS by picking on newbies who lack the confidence to answer back are
insensitive goits who should go out and get themselves a hobby IMO.
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Why don't you then.
 
Irfanview is fairly easy editing/viewing software
http://www.irfanview.com/

This is a *fairly* simple CD burning app:
http://w1.878.telia.com/~u87812405/
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Irfanview is truly one of the most spectacular freeware apps out
there, but it's pretty awkward for cropping images. For example, if
you don't place and size your cropping rectangle properly, you have to
try again. I would recommend the image editing app in the 602 PC Suite
called 602Photo. It allows precise cropping using a rectangle, square,
circle, ellipse, freehand, or polyline -- you can resize and move the
cropping selector at will. Like Irfanview, there are several built-in
enhancement options. PhotoBase Lite and Serif PhotoPlus might also be
good alternatives. You really don't need a wizard for such simple
editing. You'll get the hang of it in a few minutes, especially with
602Photo.

CD burning is a separate task not found in most image editing apps. In
WindowsXP you can simply drag and drop the files to the CD drive icon
in Windows Explorer. Otherwise you'll need a dedicated CD burning app.
 
Irfanview is truly one of the most spectacular freeware apps out
there, but it's pretty awkward for cropping images. For example, if
you don't place and size your cropping rectangle properly, you have to
try again.
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In version 3.80 you can adjust the rectangle afterwards. just put the
mouse on one of the lines.
CD burning is a separate task not found in most image editing apps.
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True, but as a matter of fact, Irfanview has a plug-in with which you can
burn a slide show to CD. It does require Nero though ;) .
 
Well said, 1/2 cut...... :)

Btw, I appreciate the info too and I'm not a newbie at usenet, but am to
photography. :D
 
Blinky said:
The GIMP does. Draggable corner handles. http://www.gimp.org/
Rectangles only, though, unless there's a plugin or script for other
shapes.
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Never really seen it any other way in a program. However, it would be
a nice feature.

This morning I finally tried out Pixia. The program is okay, but the
interface would take too much getting used to. Also, help opens in
one's default browser. I detest that kind of help system. When your
resources are low because you're working on a huge image project, the
last thing you need is to open another program.
 
Never really seen it any other way in a program. However, it would be
a nice feature.
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That's all I've ever seen, too. The only reason I mentioned "rectangles
only" was that someone upthread was talking about cropping with circles
and ellipses. In case that's what was really meant (and I have my
doubts), I figured I should include the caveat. Naturally, the GIMP has
circular, elliptical, irregular, curved and value/hue *selection* tools
(from which one can cut/copy/paste any imposed shape they'd like, as a
new image), like most such programs have. It's just the real *crop*
tool that's limited to rectangles.
This morning I finally tried out Pixia. The program is okay, but the
interface would take too much getting used to. Also, help opens in
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Agreed. I didn't bother. (Back in the Windows Era of Computing, I
rarely even read the graphics threads, since I'd been using a commercial
program for years.)
one's default browser. I detest that kind of help system. When your
resources are low because you're working on a huge image project, the
last thing you need is to open another program.
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Given your xtreme graphics hobby, how much RAM are you running?
Relatively new machine -- you must have what...a gig?
 
Blinky said:
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Given your xtreme graphics hobby, how much RAM are you running?
Relatively new machine -- you must have what...a gig?
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No, just 256 RDRAM. Works fine for what I do.
As for the Gimp, I tried it a few years back and all I can say is that
I hope it's improved. It lasted about 15 minutes on my computer before
I uninstalled it. Too buggy and complex for my liking. Besides, I have
several commercial softwares.
Still, given the number of Gimp supporters, it must be worth
learning.
 
Still, given the number of Gimp supporters, it must be worth
learning
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I also found the Gimp buggy and complex. Pixia, however, is very different
from photoshop but worth learning nevertheless. There's things you can do
in Pixia that you can't do in photoshop and there's not many programs you
can say that about.
 
I'm almost afraid to ask what I did wrong, because I fear that I will
continue to offend whoever I offended..May I be given the "clue"..
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You have given no offence to anyone. You happened to come across one
or two people who are poison in any group - seem to devote their lives
to it.

I can't really help you, unfortunately, because I don't use a digital
camera, but I'm sure you will eventually get helpful advice here.
 
I'm almost afraid to ask what I did wrong, because I fear that I will
continue to offend whoever I offended..May I be given the "clue"..
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Relax. It was Peter Seiler's post that started it, by critiquing your
post. It seemed to me to be unnecessarily rude and abusive, so I answered
him back in similar fashion. And the argument carried on from there. It
happens in newsgroups.
 
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