Best software to use with JPEG files?

[__hh]

Google Picasa 3. New release just out. Free and can't be beat. Works with jpg, tiff, bmp, and many raw formats. Give it a try. You will like it.

/T

I guess that it all depends on what features/actions are required to conduct basic photo corrections. If all you really want is to sharpen, crop, rotate, etc... then Picasa is all you would need (and I use Picasa for those functions as well as basic photo management).

However, if you want features such as localised (rather than global) edits, masks, filters, actions, then photo$hop (either the full version, Lightroom, or Elements) would be the way to go.

 

[Tuolumne]

I guess that it all depends on what features/actions are required to conduct basic photo corrections. If all you really want is to sharpen, crop, rotate, etc... then Picasa is all you would need (and I use Picasa for those functions as well as basic photo management).

However, if you want features such as localised (rather than global) edits, masks, filters, actions, then photo$hop (either the full version, Lightroom, or Elements) would be the way to go.

Quite correct. I try not to get into that other stuff. Really eats up time, but I have seen beautiful work using those advanced functions.

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[kshapero]

I just downloaded a full trial version of ACDSee Pro 2.5. Wow Really nice and easy to use. I have 30 days to check it out.

 

[raydm6]

This is good to get started... and free... PhotoScape.