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Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop

From Marion <marion@facts.com>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11, rec.photo.digital
Subject Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop
Date 2025-09-04 06:39 +0000
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On Thu, 4 Sep 2025 02:56:07 +0100, J. P. Gilliver wrote :


> Depends what you want to do. For me, IrfanView (free) does all _I_ want,
> but I _am_ aware what it doesn't do - see subsequent posts. (FastStone
> is a less-known alternative that I think does almost exactly what
> IrfanView does, from the time I tried it, with a slightly different user
> interface for the functions; I prefer IrfanView, but that's almost
> certainly because I'm more familiar with IV, than it being _better_.

This post of mine will only be useful to the small number of people who
don't use these editors all that often, where I use only some often.
 <https://i.postimg.cc/sDWhsB18/editor-pic.jpg> my photo editor archive

Irfanview:
 a. I mostly use it for fast viewing almost every image format 
 b. It's also my batch processor for images;
 c. And, it's my "shrinker" "sizer" "cropper" for images;
But I would never call Irfanview an "editor" in terms of what that means.

Paint.NET
 a. I mostly use it for editing (i.e., greatly changing) images
 b. In my use model, that's mostly for screenshot editing
 c. As it is fantastic for adding text, arrows & circles/boxes
Where I think it's the closest free 1:1 replacement for Adobe Photoshop.

There are times when I use the plugins to both to add features.
 A. An example is an OCR plugin for Irfanview
 B. An example is a PDF plugin for Paint.NET

I'm probably more well organized on a computer than any other human being
you have ever met in your life, or will meet in the rest of your life.

So what I have on my system is what I found over the years to work for me.

If I look at what's installed at this very moment, each time I've needed a
specialty editor in the past year or so, I've re-installed a tested editor.
 
Here's a quick "dir /b" of my c:\app\editor\pic\ installation folder:
 analogexif
 fastone
 fotosketcher
 freehandpainter
 hip
 imagemagick
 inkscape
 iview
 krita
 paint.net
 photofiltre
 pinta
 pnet
 psp
 vicman
 xface

Each of those "specialty" editors does "something" that neither Irfanview
nor Paint.NET did that I had needed in the past year or so for images.

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OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl> - 2025-09-03 14:47 +0200
  Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop rsutton <rsutton43@comcast.net> - 2025-09-03 09:16 -0400
  Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-09-03 09:19 -0400
  Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop invalid  <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-03 13:23 +0000
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-09-04 03:14 +0100
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop wasbit <wasbit@REMOVEhotmail.com> - 2025-09-04 09:37 +0100
  Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-09-03 10:26 -0400
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-09-03 10:29 -0400
      Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-09-03 17:40 +0000
        Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Abandoned Trolley <that.bloke@microsoft.com> - 2025-09-04 15:23 +0100
          Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-09-05 02:45 +0000
      Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-09-04 03:17 +0100
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-09-04 12:53 +0100
      Identifying people in pictures Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-09-04 14:18 +0100
      Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-09-04 11:47 -0400
        Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-09-04 22:40 +0100
          Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-09-05 03:30 -0400
          Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-09-05 13:47 +0100
            Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-09-06 11:27 +0100
              Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-09-06 08:45 -0400
                Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-09-06 17:51 +0100
                Photo Management (Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop) Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2025-09-12 13:30 +0000
              Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-09-06 09:34 -0400
              Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-09-06 16:15 +0100
                Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-09-06 16:31 +0100
                Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-09-06 20:11 +0100
                Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-09-06 15:30 -0400
          Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2025-09-06 15:27 +0200
            Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-09-06 15:42 +0100
              Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2025-09-06 18:31 +0200
  Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Paul in Houston TX <Paul@Houston.Texas> - 2025-09-03 12:33 -0500
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-09-04 14:48 +0200
      Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-09-04 12:00 -0400
        Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-09-04 12:58 -0400
          Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-09-04 13:56 -0400
      Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Paul in Houston TX <Paul@Houston.Texas> - 2025-09-04 12:06 -0500
        Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-09-04 13:41 -0400
        Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-09-04 20:18 +0200
          Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Paul in Houston TX <Paul@Houston.Texas> - 2025-09-04 15:32 -0500
  Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-09-03 14:34 -0400
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl> - 2025-09-03 20:40 +0200
      Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-09-03 20:58 +0000
      Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-09-03 19:10 -0400
      Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-09-04 20:20 +0200
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop wasbit <wasbit@REMOVEhotmail.com> - 2025-09-04 09:45 +0100
  Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Zaidy036 <Zaidy036@air.isp.spam> - 2025-09-03 15:57 -0400
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop invalid <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-03 21:14 +0000
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-09-04 06:54 +0000
  Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-09-03 21:19 +0000
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Philip Herlihy <nothing@invalid.com> - 2025-09-04 11:39 +0100
  Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-03 14:37 -0700
  Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-09-03 17:17 -0500
  Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Jim the Geordie <jim@geordieland.com> - 2025-09-04 00:55 +0100
  Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-09-04 02:56 +0100
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-09-04 06:39 +0000
  Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop jetjock <jetjock@unkown.com> - 2025-09-04 09:24 -0500
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-09-05 10:17 +0200
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop George <hgrikmnhb@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-06 20:56 +0000
      Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> - 2025-09-06 18:09 -0500
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl> - 2025-09-07 09:32 +0200
  Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl> - 2025-09-05 19:41 +0200

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