This
is a personal selection of programs that I have found
to be the most suitable and efficient
for my tasks, that is correcting of scanned slides and
negatives. If you do not agree, feel free to suggest a program in
comments. If you are convincing enough, I might add it to the list.
Supported operating systems: Windows
From it’s site: IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact
and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows. It
is designed to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.
One of the first programs I always
install on any Windows system I use. Although it started as a simple picture
viewer in current version it is a powerful picture editor which includes all
basic tools including batch processing and even more tools are available as
plugins.
Supported operating systems: Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and
others
From it’s site: GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image
Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as
photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many
capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo
retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image
renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It
is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about
anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest
task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
The unofficial free replacement for
Photoshop with countless features and possibilities to correct pictures. There
is nothing that can’t be done with this program (at least I have not found it
yet). But you should take some time (and maybe even RTFM) to learn to use it.
Supported operating systems: Linux, Windows, Mac OS X
From it’s site: digiKam is an advanced digital photo
management application. The people who inspired digiKam's design are the
photographers like you who want to view, manage, edit, enhance, organize, tag,
and share photographs.
Although
the main focus of digiKam is tagging and organizing of pictures, it is also a
very capable picture editor. I am only guessing, but it probably shares several
graphics libraries with Gimp (which is a good thing). I like it’s picture
editor, which allows me to work fast and effectively when correcting scanned
slides.
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