Replacement for Photoshop?

[KenK]

I have an old photo, a portrait of my parents, and there are tears around
the edges. I'd like to copy this in the scanner and repair the background
around the edges. Unfortunately, I don't have Photoshop - or at least the
Start Menu program list doesn't show it.

Is there a free simple image editor that will do what I need?

Running XP Home.

TIA


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[Ian Jackson[_2_]]

In message >, KenK
> writes
>I have an old photo, a portrait of my parents, and there are tears around
>the edges. I'd like to copy this in the scanner and repair the background
>around the edges. Unfortunately, I don't have Photoshop - or at least the
>Start Menu program list doesn't show it.
>
>Is there a free simple image editor that will do what I need?
>
>Running XP Home.
>
>TIA
>
>
Faststone Image Viewer - simple, intuitive, yet very powerful.
http://www.faststone.org/

It's freeware, with totally optional donation.

Both install and portable versions are available. [The portable version
seems to have the all the features that the install version has.]

It has an easy-to-use Clone and Heal facility for patching up old
pictures - in fact I'm using it at this very moment to restore about
2500 scanned archive photos for the local historical society.

There are many other programs that also work well, but Faststone Image
Viewer is by far my favourite.
--
Ian

[Paul[_32_]]

KenK wrote:
> I have an old photo, a portrait of my parents, and there are tears around
> the edges. I'd like to copy this in the scanner and repair the background
> around the edges. Unfortunately, I don't have Photoshop - or at least the
> Start Menu program list doesn't show it.
>
> Is there a free simple image editor that will do what I need?
>
> Running XP Home.
>
> TIA
>
>

I don't know where you will find it now, but
there is a copy of Photoshop floating around.

PhSp_CS2_English.exe
356,583,291 bytes

photoshop_CS2
Enabling key (because license server is shut down) = 1045-1412-5685-1654-6343-1431

MD5 = c24f1c53297ca179650031094571dce0
SHA-1 = 1edfd80947f4a89a0d80c94ab7caf3c2be7224c5

The background of this event is discussed here a bit.
Initially it appeared to be a "giveaway", when it was
actually intended to help customers who would be inconvenienced
by the shutdown of their license server. I suspect maybe
a keygen for Photoshop CS2 was so widespread, there just
wasn't a point any more.

http://www.askvg.com/adobe-providing-photoshop-cs2-and-other-products-free-for-download-not-really/

The license key was provided right on the download page.
Customers were not authenticated in any sense, to enter
the web page. A whole suite, was sitting on the web page.

*******

The only advantage Photoshop has, is it has a macro recorder.
If you need Photoshop to do the same transform to 1000 photographs,
the program can do a "batch run", playing back your macro
over and over again.

For anything else, GIMP is sufficient.

Only the more modern versions of Photoshop have power
tools for reworking images. I.e. Better than "primitives"
in a sense. Semi-intelligent. GIMP is just basic transforms,
UnSharp Mask, Gaussian Blur, and so on. While it does
have some fancy stuff, the materials would be used by
an artist to "fill in clouds" or the like. Rather than
repair blemishes in an old print.

https://www.gimp.org/

The single worst improvement in modern GIMP, is copying
the floating tool palettes that Photoshop has. The messing
up of the "Save As" versus "Export As", rates pretty high
on the list too. Most "humans" will be using the Export function,
as the Save can be rather pointless at times. GIMP has a native
format of .xcf, which is an attempt to imitate the fact that
Photoshop has a couple native formats (.psp, .psb). Well, I
hardly ever avail myself of .xcf, and I keep making the
mistake (over and over again), of hitting Save when I should
be doing an Export.

Paul

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message >, KenK
> writes:
>I have an old photo, a portrait of my parents, and there are tears around
>the edges. I'd like to copy this in the scanner and repair the background
>around the edges. Unfortunately, I don't have Photoshop - or at least the
>Start Menu program list doesn't show it.
>
>Is there a free simple image editor that will do what I need?
>
>Running XP Home.
>
>TIA
>
>
Lots, I think (-:. I use IrfanView for everything: there may be ways in
which it's inferior to others (undo level for a start), but it's small
(and I mean small: I think the main installer is still less than 2 MB,
and even with the plugins it's small), and fast. (And so far no sign of
crapware.) It has what Paint Shop Pro used to call a clone brush (I
forget what IrfanView calls it), under the F12 menu IIRR, which is what
I'd use for tear removal.
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

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[VanguardLH[_2_]]

KenK wrote:

> Is there a free simple image editor ...

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[JJ[_11_]]

On 31 Oct 2016 18:08:23 GMT, KenK wrote:
> I have an old photo, a portrait of my parents, and there are tears around
> the edges. I'd like to copy this in the scanner and repair the background
> around the edges. Unfortunately, I don't have Photoshop - or at least the
> Start Menu program list doesn't show it.
>
> Is there a free simple image editor that will do what I need?
>
> Running XP Home.
>
> TIA

Try PhotoFiltre. Quite light for XP. It looks like but not as full featured
as Photoshop.