been using the freebie jasc stuf on our old dell, but having bought meself one 'o they netbook things i need to copy the photos over and have some way of organising them, and doing a small amount of editing – cropping, rotating, etc. nothing fancy. if a photo is bobbins it get's binned unless it's required for sentimental reasons. 🙂
paintshop pro? have heard of picasa and had a very brief look – any good?
suggestions and recommendations please. oh yeah – needs to be free or very close to.
ta muchly.

picasa is pretty good imo.

second picasa.

yup I would go for picasa as it sounds like it fits your needs – Windows live image gallery also similar and also free – GIMP is a clone of earlier versions of photoshop if your interested!

Picasa
Paint.net or Photoshop
Zooomr or Flickr

Picasa is the best photo organising software I use.

A bit limited on manipulation but the "I'm feeling Lucky" button if far better then it sounds and brightens up most photos quite well.

Picasa is free too. 😀

somebody on here kindly posted a link to paint shop pro recently. I can't remember where it was, search the forums?

Get a Mac and try Aperture. It's worth buying a Mac for if you're serious about photography. It has some similar features to Picasa though – such as non-destructive editing, so that's a good choice if you don't want to splash on a new computer 🙂

picasa it is then. thanks very much fellas.
Mac? **** MAC?! are you being intentionally obtrusive?
'bought meself one 'o they netbook things'
😆
thanks anyway!

If you had a Mac then you would already have iPhoto and not be looking for anything else. 😛

yeah, yeah, but using pcs i've had access to mapping software for 5 years, and i'm not some sort of metrosexual designer type… 😀

I must say iPhoto is a fantastic piece of software. Windows really lacks a comparable one-microsoft or otherwise.

I must say iPhoto is a fantastic piece of software. Windows really lacks a comparable one-microsoft or otherwise.

I must say iPhoto is a fantastic piece of software. Windows really lacks a comparable one-microsoft or otherwise.

I must say iPhoto is a fantastic piece of software. Windows really lacks a comparable one-microsoft or otherwise.

No matter how many times you say it tomzo, I still prefer picasa over iphoto…

Others to consider are irfanview and photoshop elements.

I prefer DPP (Digital Photo Professional) that came with my DSLR but can be downloaded for free from Canon websites around the internetisphere.