[teengeekgrrl]

Originally Posted by hewee

PSP 7 was the last version Jasc had and they was giving it away before they sold it to Corel.

Okay. Thanks!

I got it and it rocks!

[teengeekgrrl]

Originally Posted by Stoner

Just wanted to add this freeware app incase someone has an interest to try something 'lighter' than PSP7 and yet more powerful than Irfanview:

Photofiltre:http://www.photofiltre.com/

Thanks Stoner!

[ChuckE]

Originally Posted by Stoner

and yet more powerful than Irfanview:
Photofiltre:http://www.photofiltre.com/

IrfanView is simply a graphics viewer, NOT a graphics editor. That is not a fair comparison.

If you use IrfanView, and you bring up an editor, it has to be a defined external editor that you define (whichever you prefer). For myself, since I am a simple person with simple needs, I simply define my MS Paint program. But it could just as easily point to Gimp, or PhotoFiltre, or any other editor that I like. IrfanView is not an editor, it is only a basic manipulator (apples not oranges).

[Stoner]

Originally Posted by ChuckE

IrfanView is simply a graphics viewer, NOT a graphics editor. That is not a fair comparison.

If you use IrfanView, and you bring up an editor, it has to be a defined external editor that you define (whichever you prefer). For myself, since I am a simple person with simple needs, I simply define my MS Paint program. But it could just as easily point to Gimp, or PhotoFiltre, or any other editor that I like. IrfanView is not an editor, it is only a basic manipulator (apples not oranges).

Please quote what I post in it's entirety.
In all fairness, I said:

Just wanted to add this freeware app incase someone has an interest to try something 'lighter' than PSP7 and yet more powerful than Irfanview:

And that seems to be the case.
I usually use Irfanview as a quick editor for what I often post on the Internet.
Many people don't realize the effects that Irfanview can generate.
Photofilter is more powerful, with more options.

Perhaps if you read what else I posted, you would have found I listed Gimp, PSP7 and Photofiltre.......not Irfanview. It's an editor, not a paint program.

But you do it injustice when you call Irfanview only 'simply a graphics viewer'.

[ChuckE]

[Stoner]

Originally Posted by ChuckE

.....

[ChuckE]

Are we violently in agreement, or what?

[-MaDcOw-]

Originally Posted by ChuckE

IrfanView is simply a graphics viewer, NOT a graphics editor.

So you are saying that it is like Windows Picture and Fax viewer.

[Stoner]

Originally Posted by ChuckE

Are we violently in agreement, or what?

ChuckE said:

IrfanView is simply a graphics viewer, NOT a graphics editor.

Hard to tell

I do a lot of editing in Irfanview

[Stoner]

Originally Posted by -MaDcOw-

So you are saying that it is like Windows Picture and Fax viewer.

I don't know Windows Picture and Fax viewer

I do know MS Picture It, but I haven't used it in years

[ChuckE]

IrfanView is a graphics viewer with some special capabilities. I have been a user, and BIG promoter of Irfanview for the past several years. It is a fantastic tool, and one that I use on EVERY computer I use. I have it on my portable flashdrive, and on my personal website on the chance that the IrfanView website is ever down (it has happened a couple of times).

I love IrfanView! it is a fantastic graphics viewer+, it is a great snapshot tool, it is a great slide creator, it is a great image basic manipulator, whatever, but it is not a graphics editor.

I did not say that you were promoting it as such, don't be so sensitive. You simply said that if a person wanted something more powerful than IfranView . . . and I just chimed in, to mentioned that they should not be mentioned in the same breath.

[-MaDcOw-]

Originally Posted by Stoner

I don't know Windows Picture and Fax viewer

Its on XP - Screenshot below

I do know MS Picture It, but I haven't used it in years

Never heard of it

[Stoner]

I probably didn't list Irfanview in this thread because it is not a paint app

I hope I didn't upset you in correcting your post _

[Stoner]

Originally Posted by -MaDcOw-

Its on XP - Screenshot below

Never heard of it

What's an XP

[ChuckE]

Originally Posted by Stoner

I do a lot of editing in Irfanview

If you consider a lot of editing as rotating pictures, or changing gamma levels (or brightness, or contrast), or any such overall image modifications, then you are right to call IrfanView a great image editor. But there are those who want to manipulate images at the pixel level, and IrfanView does not do that.

I don't, generally manipulate images so minutely (except what I want to put a mustache, or something, on someone, as a joke). For those sort of details, I use IrfanView to first view the image, then open a separate editor, to do my edits, and see the results in IrfanView, again.

I like Irfanview, don't get me wrong, but I use a "hammer for nails, and a screwdriver for screws".