If you are looking for a free photo editor, and at the same time are puzzled by the question, go toWindows 10 or not, then after the transition you will definitely be satisfied with at least one purchase. This is a photo editor. It has finally been combined with an image viewing application. Now it is one whole - the Photos application.
Comfortable? Undoubtedly! Right while viewing the album you just shot, you can really improve your shots. In a famous photo editor Picasa there was such a wonderful function “I’m lucky!” You press a button, and the algorithm performs a small miracle. Photography improved significantly. Color, brightness, contrast were adjusted, and it seems like there were a lot of other parameters that it would be better for an amateur not to know about.
“It was” because Google announced a long time ago that Picasa was no longer supported. It is no longer updated or improved. Of course you can download it now. It remains a good photo editor, but processing algorithms are not developing.
“Where can I download a free photo editor?”
This is a completely normal question that comes up time after time. Moreover, I want to have not just a program, but a convenient and fast editor in Russian. And so, in Windows 10, they took a decisive approach to this issue. An analogue of the Picas function “I’m lucky!” here they called it “Improve Photo!” And it works well!
They say that it is better to see once than to hear a hundred times. I'm showing you. A dark frame without sharpness was specially taken. Here are two versions of the same photo. One before processing with a photo editor, the second after.
Before and after processing function Despite the fact that before uploading to the site you have to compress image, the difference is visible. In one click the picture becomes better.
When talking about photo editors, we don’t mention paint.net, not because it does not deserve attention, but for the simple reason that it is still graphics editor. And it's pretty good. Yes, this is not Adobe Photoshop, and it has much fewer functions. So, you don’t have to master it for many months. Easy to learn and operate. Installed it right away and started working right away. Including layers!
What can the Windows 10 photo editor do?
In addition to “Improve Photo!” You can continue to edit the image manually. In addition to a set of 15 fairly standard filters, there is an “Adjust” menu. Here you can manage the parameters:
- Light design,
- Color,
- Clarity,
- Vignetting (yes, that's how Microsoft coined the word!)
Finally, you can remove the red-eye effect and make spot adjustments to the picture.
In addition, there is drawing from photographs. This must be very interesting?
There is also "Cropping". True, it does not support cropping. That is, cropping to standard frame proportions - the “correct” ratio of height and width. Maintaining proportions is important for printing on photo paper because it has standard sizes. Cropping is available in Picasa. So if you need to crop a picture to fit the frame size, you will have to do it after improving it in Windows, and also process inPicasa.
