red750 Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 I occasionally like to play around editing old photos. I don't have Photoshop, Lightroom or any of those expenive editing programs, I use a simple program called PhotoScape, which is free for non-commercial users, and is downloaded from the internet. Today, my wife received a USB drive with nearly 500 old family photos, scanned copies of prints. Some were in pretty poor condition. Here are before and after images of two photos I played around wih this afternoon. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 Did it take much to learn how to use it, or have you got prior experience? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted September 27, 2021 Author Share Posted September 27, 2021 No prior experience, self taught by trial and error. There are a couple of small video clips which come up on the home screen to get you started, but it's pretty much suck it and see. If you want to try it, I'm happy to answer questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 I'll download it, but my plate runneth over with projects at the moment. I'll be happy when this COVID lockdown is over and I can leave the house. Staying home is just letting me find more and more projects to do. Today I picked up a bar-b-que someone put out on the footpath. I hope to be able to replace the gas manifold in my old bar-b-que. If that fails, at least I've got a good frame for a trolley. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 Always good for red back spider home. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 1 hour ago, facthunter said: Always good for red back spider home. Nev Until the funnel-webs come knocking at their door. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 I keep forgetting you are in Sydney. They are worse in the northern suburbs and stay alive in swimming pool filters and get into beds that aren't used much. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted September 28, 2021 Author Share Posted September 28, 2021 Is this a record - four posts to derail a thread? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 27 minutes ago, red750 said: Is this a record - four posts to derail a thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dax Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 19 hours ago, red750 said: Today, my wife received a USB drive with nearly 500 old family photos, scanned copies of prints. Some were in pretty poor condition. Here are before and after images of two photos I played around wih this afternoon. That's a pretty good job you've done there, in linux there are any number of photo shop stuff, I use GIMP which is simply amazing, but is a steep learning curve. There are lots of simple easy to use photo manipulation software, free and some are extremely sophisticated. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 FOUR posts hold up a lot of things. It was like that when I got here Boss. Nev 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenn Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 I use Afinity Photo. Not a freebie, but it is good and does most of what photoshop used to do when I last used it. I used to get these photos back in the days before digital and re photograph, then fix them up in the darkroom. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 I think I've mentioned this before, but I still use a Photo-editing and Imaging programme that came with my very first computer setup - Windows 98 in Oct 1998. That programme is ULead iPhoto Express, and it is a great little programme that was put together by Canon - but which is now 100% obsolete, as Canon sold ULead iPhoto Express to Corel, about 2007, who promptly modified it to iPhoto Express Plus 4, then binned it, after they extracted a lot of its useful features, and tried to integrate them into Corel Draw. But Corel Draw is not a patch on iPhoto Express. And it appears I'm not the only one who thinks it truly was/still is, the best imaging programme around. https://www.mouthshut.com/software/Ulead-iPhoto-Plus-4-reviews-925013838 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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