looking for recommendations on something lightweight, basic, fast, free, and for xp. crop, rotate, resize... if the picture viewer that comes with xp had crop and resize, it would be pretty much perfect for what i need it for*.

some kind of sysinternals/powertools type tool would be sweet.. does winXP sp3 update include that cool crop tool that showed up in vista?

otherwise, suggestions (w/ links) would be much appreciated.

thanks.






*nothing really technically relevant beyond this line, just putting it out there for ideas..feedback.. hear myself talk... i dunno
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software... a little while back, since i had the chance to do so for practically nothing, i got myself some real/legit 'photoshop' software (fireworks). so i'm good on that. its just that this is for a different machine and i only need like need like 4 functions. so im looking freeware

as for the system... i do my going green with computers and parts... so the idea is adding a new use to a semi-older (~1ghz/512kb) laptop that i use now (barely) for music and msOffice... a digital camera workstation...

just for space to dump memory cards onto and maybe do a little pre-pre-editing before i transfer the pics over. i think that in my free time i could do my broadbrush edit stuff and save a bunch of time when it comes down to actually playing with the pictures with real software

2/3/2009 2:14:56 PM

http://www.irfanview.com/ for nothing but viewing, cropping, resizing, and rotating

http://www.gimp.org/ for everything past that

[Edited on February 3, 2009 at 2:19 PM. Reason : links]

2/3/2009 2:16:17 PM

picasa?

2/3/2009 2:17:51 PM

http://www.getpaint.net

2/3/2009 2:19:29 PM

^^^i was looking at gimp just cause ive seen it around, i'll put that on the short list. and IrfanView looks like its a lot down the alley i'm looking for

^^ i used picasa some, and i like it. but #1, its just way too much for the simple stuff i need at that poit... and #2, i always had problems with changes not saving and stuff ending up online that i didnt want online, etc. stpidass user error im sure, but still... see #1 haha

2/3/2009 2:23:33 PM

yep, sounds like irfanview or picasa will do just what you need

2/3/2009 2:24:34 PM

so im not gonna luck out and get a cool explorer plugin context menu type thing huh

that would be choice #1, like that cool crop toy that vista has.

oh well, thanks still for the suggestions, i'll be reading and testing and seeing how light i can go

2/3/2009 2:31:49 PM

Picasa3 ... or Paint.NET

2/3/2009 2:48:37 PM

i think that paint.net will be the best thing for now, looks good on load time and its simple enough.

ill try the others if this one fails me

thanks tech talk!!!1

2/3/2009 3:26:47 PM

HUGE vote for paint.net

2/3/2009 3:32:08 PM

the gimp

2/3/2009 6:35:28 PM

irfanview and paint.net ftw

2/3/2009 9:15:04 PM