Looking to the Lounge for a cheap photo editor

By Tracey Capen

Serious digital photographers spend an inordinate amount of time working with their photo-editing application — usually Photoshop, if they can afford it.

For those who can’t (or for whom Photoshop is just too complicated), there is endless debate about what’s second-best.

That was the question posed by Lounge member rfe777. Is it Photoshop Elements, or PaintShop Photo Express, or one of the many small-but-useful and free image-editing apps? The answers show that there is no consensus on this question, though many think GIMP is worth a try. More»

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The following links are this week’s most-interesting Lounge threads, including several new questions that you may be able to provide responses to:


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The Lounge Life column is a digest of the best of the WS Lounge discussion board. Tracey Capen is technical editor of WindowsSecrets.com.

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Tracey Capen

About Tracey Capen

Editor in chief Tracey Capen was the executive editor of reviews at PC World magazine for 10 years, from 1995 to 2005. He was InfoWorld's managing editor of reviews from 1993 to 1995 and worked in the magazine's test center and as networking editor from 1989 to 1992. Between his stints at InfoWorld, he was senior labs editor at Corporate Computing magazine.