Photo Editing (Page 3): If you have a Mac computer, Photos does most of what you need...

Old Coot

Royce Moss wrote:

Hey Hoggers stilll decideing on a low cost photo editor for simple edits. organizing and sharing. Don't want Lightroom or Photoshop and Google Photos suck. I was happy with Picasa. Looking at ACDSEE looks promising. Anyone have an opinion on it? Thanks

If you have a Mac computer, Photos does most of what you need

Arend Loc: Holland

I love PhotoScape X for Mac and Windows 10. Similar approach as Picasa with lots of filters and generall editing capabilities. http://x.photoscape.org

profbowman Loc: Harrisonburg, VA, USA

Royce, sounds like some good things to check out from these inputs. What computer or tablet or smart phone are you using or want to use for editing photos?

I use IrfanView (free but has a bit of a learning curve), MS Photos (that is the one built into Windows, I think Mac has one by the same name built in), MS Paint, Gimp. I have also looked at other free programs for organizing and some basic editing. --Richard

Drbobcameraguy Loc: Eaton Ohio

Royce Moss wrote:

Hey Hoggers stilll decideing on a low cost photo editor for simple edits. organizing and sharing. Don't want Lightroom or Photoshop and Google Photos suck. I was happy with Picasa. Looking at ACDSEE looks promising. Anyone have an opinion on it? Thanks

I use the Nikon program that is free it works great for 90 percent of the editing I do. I have luminar and affinity Photo also. Affinity is my second option. I hardly ever use luminar

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Royce Moss wrote:

Hey Hoggers stilll decideing on a low cost photo editor for simple edits. organizing and sharing. Don't want Lightroom or Photoshop and Google Photos suck. I was happy with Picasa. Looking at ACDSEE looks promising. Anyone have an opinion on it? Thanks

Lots of options...

Camera manufacturer downloads such as Canon Digital Photo Professional

Serif Affinity Photo (MacOS/Windows/iPadOS) (inexpensive and powerful)

Photoshop Elements (reasonably priced and fairly powerful)

GIMP (free download)

On the Mac, combine the free Apple Photos with Raw Power from Gentlemen Coders (for advanced raw file editing). Add Affinity Photo for advanced bitmap editing.

paul lehmann Loc: long isl ny

Royce Moss wrote:

Hey Hoggers stilll decideing on a low cost photo editor for simple edits. organizing and sharing. Don't want Lightroom or Photoshop and Google Photos suck. I was happy with Picasa. Looking at ACDSEE looks promising. Anyone have an opinion on it? Thanks

Hi I have been using ACDsee for many years. I has a very good catalog system very intuitive.Along with the mobile sync I find it very useful.

profbowman Loc: Harrisonburg, VA, USA

And here is a good page to explore some options vetted by HP.
https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/tech-takes/best-free-photo-printing-software

--Richard

The Capt.

Just to be different try photo Director. It is free and when I bought a new computer Acer gave it to me. I already have more editors than I can use so I can't say much about it except it looks to be good. There is a free download available here.
https://www.cyberlink.com/products/photodirector-photo-editing-software-365/features_en_US.html?affid=2581_-1_647_PhD-B&msclkid=2fe8588b70c719f9aacb39b65d936a84&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=PhotoDirector%20Branded%20-%20US&utm_term=photo%20director%20software&utm_content=PhotoDirector%20-%20Exact

woodyH

Forget paying rent on something you can never own outright: Adobe products. They are good but the Corel products are more creativity-in-tune, as compared with getting a lot of work done, quickly, but ending with a uniform (what the customers want) look.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

woodyH wrote:

Forget paying rent on something you can never own outright: Adobe products. They are good but the Corel products are more creativity-in-tune, as compared with getting a lot of work done, quickly, but ending with a uniform (what the customers want) look.

Read the EULA* for your “packaged” software. You do not own it. You licensed it… subscription software just spreads out the cost and keeps it updated.

*End User License Agreement

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

burkphoto wrote:

Read the EULA* for your “packaged” software. You do not own it. You licensed it… subscription software just spreads out the cost and keeps it updated.

*End User License Agreement

Makes sense since software is usually "owned" by the person(s) or company that developed it.

Guzser02

Royce Moss wrote:

Hey Hoggers stilll decideing on a low cost photo editor for simple edits. organizing and sharing. Don't want Lightroom or Photoshop and Google Photos suck. I was happy with Picasa. Looking at ACDSEE looks promising. Anyone have an opinion on it? Thanks

Hey Royce, I use ACDsee for its amazing Data Asset Manager (DAM) which is unparalleled, and it is a decent editor.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

rmorrison1116 wrote:

Makes sense since software is usually "owned" by the person(s) or company that developed it.

Yep. The license is non-exclusive. It usually even says there is no "warrant of merchantability." In other words, they aren't liable if it doesn't work or causes you harm!

If you like it, you can use what you paid for. If not, you're out of luck. At least with subscriptions, you can suspend them when not needed, or drop them altogether, without losing your data.

imagemeister Loc: mid east Florida

Royce Moss wrote:

Hey Hoggers stilll decideing on a low cost photo editor for simple edits. organizing and sharing. Don't want Lightroom or Photoshop and Google Photos suck. I was happy with Picasa. Looking at ACDSEE looks promising. Anyone have an opinion on it? Thanks

Consider Elements - older versions ( 9-11) are simpler/better IMO ......
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Garyofthedesert Loc: AZdesert

Man do I miss my Photo Impact Pro, changed to Mac and found out Impact didn't exist for any OS any longer. Apparently Corel bought it and deep sixed it. It was a great program, used in our small sign biz for years (until we retired).