I need advice on what's a good free Windows base photo editor. I have to resize pictures to download them. Some simple retouching would be helpful as well. Someone gave me a site that works well, but posts the website address in the picture.
For the very basics, I suggest Irfanview. It works quite well for cropping and color adjustments. It is also a great image viewer program.
For more advanced editing, there is Gimp. It has most of the capabilities of Photoshop. Naturally, a more complex program takes a bit of time to learn. Everything is available online, including tutorials. It is open-source / freeware.
Irfanview is good software. I own Photoshop, but still use Irfanview for some of my work. Especially, when I want to batch rename files or batch manipulate pictures, and especially when I want to convert formats or resolutions, I use Irfanview.
An example is my wife, who uses a N-i-k-o-n and who frequently takes pictures in the N-i-k-o-n raw format which produces a very big file. No problem so far, but she never does anything with these raw pictures. But, then complains when viewing them (using a special picture viewer) because they take so long to load for viewing.
Arrrgh!
But, I've quit my complaining. She takes 200 pictures in the NEF (raw) format, and I immediately convert them all into JPGs at about 30% dumbed down resolution. She can't tell the difference, even on a high resolution screen, or when printing. Once or twice a year she wants to print a large photo, and I find the big original picture.
Why am I telling everyone all of this? Oh, yea! Irfanview does very well at batch manipulation of photos.