Thread: Best Image Viewer Application

Whats the best image viewing application, where you can edit pictures too.

With the basic which is in all computers you can change the effects in many ways which is good, but as soon as you have Microsoft installed the Microsoft viewer works and the other one gets vanished.

So need some which can allow me to edit images and get good effects.

If you are not a pro at editing images then Google picasa would be a good option and its free to use.

u can also get windows live photo gallery... its like as in windows vista... a bit on the slow side... but is quite functional.

c m image viewer becomes the default program to open the particular file type, so if you want to use another one you have to go the properties and select the default program.

i sugg- turbo photo, its cool and easy

i think picasa is the better option for image editing... as there are lot many good options available and its really very easy to use software... there are no complex things to do something strange... so you can use it easily and it dont require any skills or help to start up with..

my vote goes for Irfan view!!

I think that Adobe photoshop is the best

Irfan viewer is great and it is free!!!!

Irfan view is not only great and free but it is very easy to use it and to do some basic tasks where as using photoshop will require some skills

from where have advanced image editors come into the picture here?? i think she is just looking for some basic image editing here... irfan view is more than enough... even picasa is enough.
as far as advanced image editing is concerned i use gimp... nothing beats it and its free and very easy to use.

Irfan View is the best image viewer + editor. You can use plugins to add extra function. I use the default Microsoft Picture and Fax viewer. And Photoshop for editing purpose.

There are a lot of choices, but another question is that which application has the most options for editing pictures, picasa is good, but they don't have the embossing or sketching option............!

Originally Posted by gurusam

I think that Adobe photoshop is the best

Yeh i would really love to use photoshop but don't know how to, and i would first like to get some kind of training in it before using it...............i take it that photoshop is the best image editor?

Originally Posted by Preeti_20

Yeh i would really love to use photoshop but don't know how to, and i would first like to get some kind of training in it before using it...............i take it that photoshop is the best image editor?

No famous ,its like windows...widely used ...def not the best....But hey no harm in using it..... its good

Simple online tutorial for Photoshop (Beginners)

http://www.baycongroup.com/photoshop/index.htm

Thanks Eddy............you know of any other sites where i can get tutorials, to do more advanced things too.

What i also wanted to confirm was that in photoshop can you get all the features that picasa has?

Originally Posted by Preeti_20

Thanks Eddy............you know of any other sites where i can get tutorials, to do more advanced things too.

What i also wanted to confirm was that in photoshop can you get all the features that picasa has?

Yes , you can do more advanced stuff than Picasa

And most Photo studios (commercial) use Photoshop ....

Yeah there are advanced tutorial sites...

Bear with me a moment ...i ll paste the URL

I use Windows Live photo gallery ...which is like Picasa ..for basic cropping and photoshop for advanced ...There is also Faststone ,Irfan View,GIMP etc...

Originally Posted by Preeti_20

Whats the best image viewing application, where you can edit pictures too.

With the basic which is in all computers you can change the effects in many ways which is good, but as soon as you have Microsoft installed the Microsoft viewer works and the other one gets vanished.

So need some which can allow me to edit images and get good effects.

Photoshop is best... if u wanna edit from anywhr u can try Picnik - edit photos the easy way, online in your browser too...

Photoshop Tutorials

This is a really nice site ...with In depth reviews ...

Adobe Photoshop - Photo-Editing and Web Graphics Tutorials

This site is for learning to use highly advanced Photoshop functionalities

Tutorials -- Absolute Cross

Has both basic and indepth Tutorials

The site itself was made using it !

Thanks for that.....................do you think its worth using the information from the tutorials to get my self educated about photoshop or actually getting proper training classes..............what would you suggest?

Training classes can only teach you the basics. You can learn the basics from training classes and use tutorials to improve your self. There is one more tutorial site Tutorialized. It's more like a tutorial search engine. You can find any Photoshop tutorials you want in there.

Sorry i misunderstood your question ...

Yes you can learn a lot about the usage of photoshops thru these online TuTs !...thats how i learnt it ....

Def encourage you to first try the basic tutorial ..The first link i posted ....


You ll know how easy it is once you try it out

then you can move on to Advanced if you are interested

Don't forget to check the website I have given. Its a really good one.

Originally Posted by Eddy

Sorry i misunderstood your question ...

Yes you can learn a lot about the usage of photoshops thru these online TuTs !...thats how i learnt it ....

Def encourage you to first try the basic tutorial ..The first link i posted ....


You ll know how easy it is once you try it out

then you can move on to Advanced if you are interested

What i meant was that it is better to learn from the tutorials or actually attend classes, but i got the answer from you anyway.

Thanks for ur help, will update the thread once i get started.

Training classes are for people who are into

-->professional photography

-->Who have time to attend classes and want a certification course(mostly college studs come in this category)

-->Planning to open a commercial venture

In training classes as Vish said you get to learn only Basic stuff ....Not useful in my opinion

The help page of photoshop itself is one of the best ways of learning photoshop
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