Good. I hope it works for you. Meanwhile, I did order Tim Gray's ($15
sale priced) video tutorial for Bridge on CS5.
Chuck Norcutt
On 9/5/2011 6:53 PM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
> Wow, Chuck...
>
> Faststone sounds like a perfect solution. I will download it and give it a
> try tomorrow.
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Rick
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Chuck Norcutt<chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> wrote:
>
>> If your editing requirements are not too high you might like Fast Stone
>> Image Viewer<http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm>
>>
>> It started out as just an image viewer and a bit of a clone of Breeze
>> Browser<http://www.breezesys.com/BreezeBrowser/> which is what I use
>> along with PhotoShop for editing (since BreezeBrowser does no editing at
>> all). However, as time has marched on, the Fast Stone author keeps
>> adding editing features. I just took a minute to review what it's doing
>> these days and was a bit surprised to see not only "Powerful image
>> editing tools: Resize/resample, rotate/flip, crop, sharpen/blur, adjust
>> lighting/colors/curves/levels etc." but also
>> - Clone Stamp and Healing Brush
>> - Superior Red-Eye effect removal/reduction with completely
>> - natural looking end result
>> - Multi-level Undo/Redo capability
>> plus lots of other stuff.
>>
>> It's what I advised my kids to use years ago when it was much less
>> powerful than it is now. They never came anywhere near using all of its
>> capabilities back then.
>>
>> If I didn't have BreezeBrowser I'd go immediately to Fast Stone since,
>> from its earliest incarnations, it has copied one of my most used
>> features of BreezeBrowser... side-by-side image comparison of 2-4
>> images. That is simply invaluable when trying to pare down an image
>> collection of many similar images. Especially when trying to choose
>> amongst kid's portraits with indecisive moms. Show 4, force a choice of
>> 1. Show 3 more along with the last choice. Force a choice of 1. Show
>> 3 more... etc.
>>
>> ps: Perhaps Adobe Bridge can do everything that BreezeBrowser does and
>> more but I've just never been inclined to dig into it. I just got an
>> offer from Tim Gray for a $15 training DVD on Bridge. I just might
>> follow up on that. But for free I'd certainly try Fast Stone.
>>
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> On 9/5/2011 3:46 PM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
>>> Thanks Jim.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions on free photo edit programs?
>>>
>>> Anyone?
>>>
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