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Re: I want to find a simple image editor for my daughter (9)
de M.L. 05/19/2006 07:25
On Thu, 18 May 2006 16:25:26 -0400, Duddits <Duddits@Dreamcatcher.com>
wrote:
>On 18 May 2006 11:30:18 -0700, impossible.mission@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>
>>I want to find a simple image editor for my daughter (9). This editor
>>should
>>be capable of
>>
>>1. Work with multiple images (adding two images)
Exactly what does that mean? Stitching 2 images? Overlaying 2 images
atop one another? ...
>>2. Write text on the images (various fonts)
>>3. Cropping.
>>
>>But most of all it must be simple. The simplest one which meets these
>>"demands" will be chosen.
>>
>>I have downloaded several freeware/shareware editors, but most of them
>>seems to aim at the "adult"-market, naturally.
>All of these fit your criteria.
>
>Good 'ol IrfanView
>http://www.irfanview.com
>See http://www.gg.caltech.edu/~avalos/stuff/download/irfanview/ and
>http://www.zoicks.com/stitching.htm for easy to follow instructions.
Irfanview is a great photo effects and organizer app, but it is not an
image editor. In addition, Irfanview is an adult program and does not
have a child-friendly interface. The text handling is particularly
non-intuitive compared to other such programs. Consumer Reports did an
evaluation of photo manipulation programs and concluded that Irfanview
was the most difficult of the candidates to use. IIRC, an entry-level
Adobe program and Microsoft's Picture It!, among others, were
included in the evaluation. I'm not sure if Ulead's Photo Express was
included but it too is an entry-level photo editor.
>or one of my favorite easy to use graphics programs - ArcSoft PhotoStudio
>Download from SOS's freeware site:
>http://www.sover.net/~wysiwygx/Graphics.html
That's more like it. ArcSoft Photostudio comes closest due to its
reasonable learning curve.
>or PhotoFiltre
>http://www.photofiltre.com/
PhotoFiltre's tool set is too sophisticated for children. A child
would have to have prior photo-editing experience to make sense of the
complex set of options offered.
>If you don't need to join images then I strongly recommend FastStone Image
>Viewer over the above. http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
>
>I have all of the above installed and use them quite frequently. They are
>small and fast totaling less than 10mb.
I don't think there's any such thing as an image editing program that
is geared toward children - freeware or not.