Readers Respond: Tell us your favorite free photo editor for Windows and why you like it!

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Snapstouch image editor

Convert some part of the image in single shade. Crop the photo. Resize the photo. Adjust the HIS, CMYK, RGB, Contrast/brightness, Gamma. Insert the text in anywhere in image. Many other tools are i.e. invert color, grayscale, gamma correction, gaussain blur, edges etc.

—Guest vikas

Free Photo Editors

How could you have omitted FastStone Image Viewer? The latest version includes most of the capabilities that I thought it should have and it is a blast to use. Their slide show enables one to move the slides around and their browser is nice to use and allows editing in other editors with a single keystroke. [Guide comment: FastStone is included in my top picks of photo browsers as it does not meet all my criteria for photo editors- http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/imagemanagement/tp/thumbbrowse.htm Thanks for your contribution!]

—wingrit

Irfan too

Irfan View is the free software I like most when its up to manipulate quickly and simply my pix. Saves GIF too.

—Guest a41b

Photo editor suggestion

Another free upcoming photo editor is Easy Photo effects, see http://easyphotoeffects.com

—Guest Mike

Picasa

Because we and my friends needs an insightful software, so were need the Picasa.

—Guest angelo m. dela rosa

Photoscape Editing Software

I recently loaded up Photoscape. I find it very easy to use, very intuitive. I try to produce the best possible photo I can in camera so that I rarely have to do any post editing work. Sometimes there is that tiny little insect that spoils a photo of a rose or a hair that you didn't see through the lens or the tiny debris that is magnified when you shoot macro and spoils your image. I find that the clone tool is just fantastic works just like Photoshop Elements. The other options are very easy to apply and consistently easy to manipulate. I recommend this for anyone who needs quick fixes! I have several excellent examples!

—Guest Liz

Hornil StylePix

I use Hornil's StylePix with my work on office. It's useful tool to edit and insert some edited images for my PowerPoint, word processor documents. Also it has many other good powerful and handy features, so I like it.

—Guest Toltin

PhotoScape

I like PhotoScape editor because it is good editor photo for me. I love and like to edit my picture in PhotoScape.

—Guest kyna

Piknik

I use Picnik (online editor) and I love it. There is a free version but you can upgrade and get all kinds of awesome touch up tools and it's super affordable.

—Guest Aash

Fastone Image Viewer

This free program is the bomb-it loads very quickly. It has original editing features like annotate and compare options along with essential editing functions like lighting, resize, crop, clone and heal, slideshow, email.

—Guest Lori

Irfan view

The quickest way of simple/not content changing/ photo editing. (It has several effects too.) Its batch conversion /B command/ is unmatched for quick automate altering of a number of photos. 'Shift-U' automate light altering feature command is also handy for badly exposed photos. [Editor's note: Ifranview doesn't really fit into the photo editor category since it is more of a viewer, but it is a useful program to have, for sure.]

—Guest Libor Supcik

Picasa

For family photos to post on Facebook, you can't beat a quick crop and fix in Picasa. I use Photoshop for everything else. Great article.

—Guest Elena

PaintRibbon is by far the best!

PaintRibbon is far better than any of the image editors listed. It's like Paint.NET but with the much better Office 2010 Ribbon interface.

—Guest Jacob

Not Gimp

I don't like GIMP because it's hard to use. Photoscape is very nice though.

—Guest Freak

GIMP is the Best

Gimp is definitely the best, it's intuitive to use and a great tool for beginners and professionals alike!

—Guest Fotoworlduk