Ive had a reasonable digital camera since February 2004. Since December 2004 Ive been using it to capture reference shots for my BVE projects, and the introduction of the POTW competition on this forum has encouraged me to try my hand at other railway photography. Increasingly, Ive found myself needing to use some simple image manipulation and enhancement software to improve the look of my pictures.
So, the purpose of this thread is to enable us to share and comment upon image manipulation freeware that we find useful, or have experience of using; or, to ask questions about such freeware. (Please, keep this to freeware I have to lie down in a darkened room if I ever part with more than a tenner in one transaction!)
So, to start this off .
Irfanview is a neat little program, with many plugins available. It enables lossless rotation of jpeg images through 90 degree steps. I tend to use it most for reducing color depth (and hence file size) to produce efficient bitmaps for BVE, and to resize jpegs (many thanks to those who pointed me towards this some time ago!). Has a nifty little red eye reduction tool.
Faststone Screen capture is a neat little program I use for screen captures.
Now, this is the one I need some advice on .
As my photographic skills improve, Ive become more aware of noise in digital images, and went looking for noise reduction freeware. I found Ditigal Auto Enhancer, a neat little freeware program, which seems to do the trick without leaving images looking a bit odd. If anyone else has used this, Id appreciate some comments on it.
Regards
eezypeazy
So, the purpose of this thread is to enable us to share and comment upon image manipulation freeware that we find useful, or have experience of using; or, to ask questions about such freeware. (Please, keep this to freeware I have to lie down in a darkened room if I ever part with more than a tenner in one transaction!)
So, to start this off .
Irfanview is a neat little program, with many plugins available. It enables lossless rotation of jpeg images through 90 degree steps. I tend to use it most for reducing color depth (and hence file size) to produce efficient bitmaps for BVE, and to resize jpegs (many thanks to those who pointed me towards this some time ago!). Has a nifty little red eye reduction tool.
Faststone Screen capture is a neat little program I use for screen captures.
Now, this is the one I need some advice on .
As my photographic skills improve, Ive become more aware of noise in digital images, and went looking for noise reduction freeware. I found Ditigal Auto Enhancer, a neat little freeware program, which seems to do the trick without leaving images looking a bit odd. If anyone else has used this, Id appreciate some comments on it.
Regards
eezypeazy