WTD: Info about a quick, simple image editor

I've been using google's picasa to sort my 2000 pictures into their
respective folders.

I am now trying to find a program that allows simple editing of pics
(cropping, rotating, level correction). If I could find something that
has the exact facilities of picasa but in then actually *saved* the
image you'd cropped or added highlight to, to the same folder, same file
name, it would be great.

I don't want to have to go into photoshop, open an image, adjust levels,
save, save as low/medium/high, replace, etc - I probably have 1000 or
more images to edit.

Anyone?


Odie

 

Many programs do batch processing, including Photoshop. On the mac I use Graphic Converter. On
the PC I think PaintShop Pro will do it too, but I think for 30 days only, then you need to buy
it.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if you could find Gimp scripts that do batch processing as well.

 

There's plenty of choice for this sort of thing, from free to charge.

I use two - Compupic Pro : http://www.photodex.com

and

Fotostation - www.fotostation.com

The latter is what I use at work, though it's the 'pro' version which
isn't cheap, as it's linkable to a serious database where we store
100,000 plus images which are instantly searchable.

You might like to have a look at:-

http://www.faststone.org.

I downloaded that out of interest and it does a hell of a lot for free.

 

Thanks Neil - fastone.org comes close to the mark.


Odie

 

www.irfanview.com is free and does batch processing.

 

IrfanView is free and rightly popular.