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Fast Loading Image Editor?

filed under Tools by rob on 01Mar07 @ 4:47 pm EST

I’m looking for a fast loading image editor. Anyone know of something that works well?

I have Macromedia Fireworks as my image editor, but it takes a while to get it launched. Often I just need to make a copy of an image or resize it. That’s all. Something simple. And fast-loading.

And Paint just don’t cut it for me. Any ideas?

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1 Paul Oyler on Mar 1st, 2007 said:

IrfanView is far and away my choice for quick editing. Very light-weight, loads fast, and does an excellent job for cropping, resizing, copying…AND it’s free.
http://www.irfanview.com/
2 Mike on Mar 1st, 2007 said:

Faststone image viewer has a nice editor which can do some basic things. Also the screen capture utility has a good editor too.
3 Rick Smith on Mar 1st, 2007 said:

I agree with the earlier post, I think Irfanview is a great free editor that can handle a multitude of graphic formats.

Another free editor which seems has a better interface than IrfanView to handle sorting /editing a large group of images would be XnView (and it is also free)

http://www.xnview.com/

Both load up quickly.
4 PaulF on Mar 1st, 2007 said:

Gimpshop is a free full-fledged image editor that works just like Photoshop, but it starts up about five times faster after the first time you run it.

It’s a hack on Gimp to make it look a little like Photoshop.
5 Galin on Mar 2nd, 2007 said:

I use PaintShopPro by Jasc, now owned by Corel Company. It’s quite faster than Photoshop and in my opinion is one of the best for web-editting images.
6 Trace Pupke on Mar 2nd, 2007 said:

Paint.NET works well and it’s free.

http://www.getpaint.net
7 Gary on Mar 3rd, 2007 said:

I use Irfanview a lot. Another free program that is more powerful and not as complicated as GIMP is Photofiltre. http://photofiltre.free.fr