Free basic photo editing software?

(skongolf) · (skongolf) **Join Date: Aug 2009** 08-23-2010, 1:58 PM

I was just curious if anyone knows of any free basic photo editing software that I could download online. I am not looking to do the Limewire thing, I just want something basic that I can convert color pics to black and white. I havn't done a whole lot of this so any help would be appreciated.

(phenom_1819) · (phenom_1819) **Join Date: Jan 2008** 08-23-2010, 2:10 PM

I believe Picasa has some basic (but decent) editing functions to it, and I'm sure has conversion to black/white. I haven't used Picasa for anything more than galleries, though.

(hunter660) · (hunter660) **Join Date: Aug 2007** 08-23-2010, 2:15 PM

Gimp

(skull) · (skull) **Join Date: May 2002** 08-23-2010, 2:24 PM

Gimp is pretty confusing IMO. I'd suggest picnik.com for very simple things like you have have mentioned. Picnik is actually pretty cool and very intuitive. I sometimes use it when I need to watermark something fast.

(JJ) · (JJ) **Join Date: Feb 2010** 08-23-2010, 5:32 PM

+1 for GIMP

(wakedad33) · (wakedad33) **Join Date: Oct 2005** 08-23-2010, 6:22 PM

+1 for Picasa

(skongolf) · (skongolf) **Join Date: Aug 2009** 08-24-2010, 1:40 PM

Thanks for the input guys. I actually was looking at photoshop today to see how much the basic one was and saw they have a free online service. I signed up for that, so i will see how it goes. So far so good, but havn't spent a ton of time on there yet.

(beretta5spd) · (beretta5spd) **Join Date: Jan 2010** 09-03-2010, 6:34 PM

+1 for gimp

(irishrider92) · (irishrider92) **Join Date: Jun 2009** 09-05-2010, 4:55 PM

Microsoft photo manager is pretty ok for doing some basic stuff or if you have a mac, there's probably an even better programme already on your computer.