Quick general photo re-touch software

[BGARK]

Hello,

Can anyone please recommend general purpose "family friendly" software, that's simple and performs ~ below 5 basic tasks very well and quickly.

For the purpose of very quickly retouching general photos, NOT for top end use, ie lots of phone camera pictures, perhaps too dark, so needs brightening, cropping and that's about it, bosh, save (as sensible file size) next.

Thanks.

[GetCarter]

Well, you may scoff, but lightroom will do that in about 12 seconds.

Import photos ... lightroom does it automatically.

Click on photo.

Click on auto fix.

Export pic to destination in size you require (first time takes about a minute, from then on, 2 seconds to rename).

It’s the best photo manipulation software out ther imho (and I have or have used most of them).

Free download last time I looked, but then you have to pay. Just depends how good you want your pics to look (as it’ll do everything in great detail when you are ready).

Just take pics in RAW...(if your tech allows), as in 10years time, you’ll wish you had.

Edited by GetCarter on Friday 1st December 16:18

[BGARK]

Sounds ideal, will take a look, thank you.

Ok just checked, its cloud-based and £10 / month, is that correct?

Edited by BGARK on Friday 1st December 16:12

[sgrimshaw]

If you are running Windows 10 then the inbuilt Photos program is actually pretty good for this.

Alternatively Picasa, whilst discontinued, can still be downloaded and will work fine.

Easy to find, here for example:

https://picasa.en.uptodown.com/windows/download

[NewNameNeeded]

If you want to do it on your mobile Snapseed is free and phenomenal. A complete Lightroom replacement for me.

[BGARK]

NewNameNeeded said:

If you want to do it on your mobile Snapseed is free and phenomenal. A complete Lightroom replacement for me.

Just had a play, very good indeed for on the go, thanks!

[singlecoil]

Photoscape will do that stuff very well, and its free.

I still use it occasionally, even though I have Photoshop CC, to quickly crop or brighten a picture.

[chandrew]

Have a look at Luminar. Of course if you have a mac Photos is probably the easiest.

[speedking31]

ACDSee is reasonably priced, and it's a one-time payment not a subscription. I find it powerful enough for simple tasks and photo viewing / management.

[Samcat]

I use FastStone for basic editing tasks, it's a free download