Photo downloading and munipulation?
Purchased a new HP laptop with windows 10 and need to find a program for downloading photos from SD card and manipulating them. What would you suggest?
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I use MICROSOFT OFFICE PICTURE MANAGER and PAINT for most of my general size setting and photo quality settings... This two photo programs are already provided on your hard drive setups.
PAINT is my default program to use my ALT PRT SCREEN keys to capture any photo I am looking at on-line and then I can edit this full screen page and add to this photo with comments and arrows etc to show something of interest to the forums I am in discussing things. Works great with my GOOGLE MAP SEARCH engine where you can zoom down and view things like camp grounds and wild back roads using street views etc...
If I need to do permanent special things to my photos I use COREL PAINT SHOP PRO which is a paid program which has been my favorite PHOTO SHOP program over the years... I will upgrade it to a more current version program about every three years
Picasa Photo manager is another great FREE program to use but it likes to find every photo on your hard drive and makes it available in literally hundreds of windows on the bottom of your screen. I found this abit overcoming for me haha... I can probably change all of that and use the program like I do my others photo programs for managing smaller groups.
When you go to the PICTURE ALBUMS folder just right click on the photo in question and select 'OPEN WITH' and you will find several general purpose photo programs already available on your computer to use...
You may not need to purchase anything new to edit your photos.
I use alot of my photos as screen savers and have them grouped in different folders to use based on my mood. I have a pretty good selection now of STARY NIGHT PICTUREs of stars and low lighted coastal views showing distant towns with stary nights... These darker photos works best with my few FOLDER LINKS on my main screen... I am setup here like WINDOWS 7 on my WIN10 computers... Could never get used to all of the screen full of small windows to click on for the different things to do... I mostly use GOOGLE CHROME or FIREFOX browsers here with things setup in tabs bookmarks to use.
I will use Microsoft Office Picture Manager to re-size and rename these photos to give my the correct size and fit for my specific monitors...
I never do much to the original photos I download and keep them in-tact so I can go back to them if needed. Current day very large TB hard drives makes all of this possible...
You will find out pretty soon you can always go smaller in size setting but once this has been saved you don't have much luck going back up in size and pixels... Most often you have to go back to the original and start your photo work all over again...
Roy Ken
PAINT is my default program to use my ALT PRT SCREEN keys to capture any photo I am looking at on-line and then I can edit this full screen page and add to this photo with comments and arrows etc to show something of interest to the forums I am in discussing things. Works great with my GOOGLE MAP SEARCH engine where you can zoom down and view things like camp grounds and wild back roads using street views etc...
If I need to do permanent special things to my photos I use COREL PAINT SHOP PRO which is a paid program which has been my favorite PHOTO SHOP program over the years... I will upgrade it to a more current version program about every three years
Picasa Photo manager is another great FREE program to use but it likes to find every photo on your hard drive and makes it available in literally hundreds of windows on the bottom of your screen. I found this abit overcoming for me haha... I can probably change all of that and use the program like I do my others photo programs for managing smaller groups.
When you go to the PICTURE ALBUMS folder just right click on the photo in question and select 'OPEN WITH' and you will find several general purpose photo programs already available on your computer to use...
You may not need to purchase anything new to edit your photos.
I use alot of my photos as screen savers and have them grouped in different folders to use based on my mood. I have a pretty good selection now of STARY NIGHT PICTUREs of stars and low lighted coastal views showing distant towns with stary nights... These darker photos works best with my few FOLDER LINKS on my main screen... I am setup here like WINDOWS 7 on my WIN10 computers... Could never get used to all of the screen full of small windows to click on for the different things to do... I mostly use GOOGLE CHROME or FIREFOX browsers here with things setup in tabs bookmarks to use.
I will use Microsoft Office Picture Manager to re-size and rename these photos to give my the correct size and fit for my specific monitors...
I never do much to the original photos I download and keep them in-tact so I can go back to them if needed. Current day very large TB hard drives makes all of this possible...
You will find out pretty soon you can always go smaller in size setting but once this has been saved you don't have much luck going back up in size and pixels... Most often you have to go back to the original and start your photo work all over again...
Roy Ken
