The best program in the Universe just got better.

[canetoad]

I know, I know....

Seriously, you have seen me evangelize for IrfanView for years. This tiny (1.28 mb)image editor is so jam packed with features that I can't even start to list them here.

With the new version 4.23, Irfan has added a feature that could be invaluable to DUers who have trouble resizing an image to meet the file size requirements of DU; Save for the Web, with an option to compress the image to a predetermined size in Kb.

Lots more new features in this new version, such as Create multi-page pdf, add space to panorama images etc.

http://www.irfanview.net/

[RC]

1. I just downloaded the this version of Irfanview and I am impressed with the

new paint features. What I like most is the Straight/Rotate tool where you click & drag a line along something that is suppose to be either a vertical or horizontal and release and it will square the picture with that line. No more un-level camera shots!

[canetoad]

2. I forgot to mention that

A very useful tool indeed. I've just finished photographing a stack of artworks for a exhibition catalogue and that would have been very handy indeed.

[Control-Z]

3. What's the price?

I bought my daughter a mini (and limited, no cd or dvd drive) laptop for Christmas - so she could myspace, IM, and upload pics on the run. She already has a nice desktop, less than a year old, with every program imaginable, but being a teen, well, the mini notebook made sense. (and the price was right.) She loves it, actually cried when she opened it Christmas morning, but would like a decent photo editing program, something down loadable. (She has Photoshop on the desktop so is used to working with a good program.) I really don't want to spend any more money, if possible. I know there are some great free programs out there, I just haven't had the need to look into them. This one sounds like it might be the answer, if the price is right.

[RoyGBiv]

4. How's free?

http://www.irfanview.com/

[Control-Z]

6. Free is perfect!

I've told her about it. She's excited and looking at it right now (along with the ones linked below). Thanks so much.

[Shardik]

5. You might also take a peek here (10 Free Web-Based Alternatives to PS)

http://www.lifeclever.com/10-free-web-based-alternatives-to-photoshop/

[Control-Z]

7. My daughter was excited

to have so many programs to choose from. She's looking them over now. Thank you. DU members always come through when I have a need - for just about anything.