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[BoboBrazil]

I need to change brightness, size, etc.

 

[ImNotLikeThem]

For simple things like that, most cameras nowadays come with rudimentary photo editing software. What kind of camera did you get

 

[BoboBrazil]

sony dsc-p200

 

[BoboBrazil]

oh yeah it has some decent software for what i'm doing, i heard the software sucks that it comes with before i bought it so i didn't even try it

 

[arter_2]

Photoshop and if you cant afford that since its killer expensive try getting Photoshop elements those are basically the best and photoshop is the industry standard.

 

[Meatpuppet]

Get the latest version of the GIMP. It is a (Free) open source alternative to Photoshop. It's a bit clunky in terms of interface, but there is precious little you can achieve in Photoshop that you can't manage with a bit of effort in the GIMP

http://www.gimp.org/

 

[demon]

Are there any tutorials on how to use Photoshop to edit photographs? I'm not necessarily interested in doing really fancy shit with them; just fixing them up and using filters. Every time I open up Photoshop I dick around for a couple minutes, get frustrated and eventually turn white and pass out from the overwhelming confusion.

 

[ChrisReid]

I'd recommend Paintshop Pro as a good alternative to Photoshop. If you buy it, it's a lot cheaper too.

 

[SickBoy]

You can get the Gimp if you don't want to spend any money, but as far as I'm concerned the interface is such that it's more trouble than it's worth.

There are a lot of decent, cheap and user-friendly image editing programs out there -- Ulead Photoimpact is a preference of mine in the sub-$100 set (I think it's under $100). Paint Shop Pro is good too. If you're looking for a really solid program, Photoshop Elements is affordable and it does all the most-important stuff Photoshop does. If prices are more or less the same between the other titles I've mentioned, I'd probably go for Elements.

I don't know... I haven't been in the market for a while...

EDIT: I also think stuff like PictureIt and Photoshop Album do a lot of the really rudimentary stuff... and probably Picasa, which is a free download from google (www.picasa.com)

 

[mrklaw]

photoshop elements 3 is a little more user friendly, and has some good photo organising stuff built in.

Doing really basic stuff can be as simple as going to image-adjustments-auto levels

Sometimes its not perfect, so you can adjust the levels/brightness etc in the same menu yourself.

Elements also has stuff like red eye removal etc.

 

[Raxel]

www.fotofects.com

(in reply to demon's post)