SansBlogue: Graphics programs again

Friday, July 25, 2008

I posted the other day about Gimp (which I was using because my Fireworks install CD is stuffed) in the comments friends helped me sort out the minor gripes I had with Gimp, the current version is nothing short of brilliant.

Stephen also commented:

For quick and dirty format conversions, resizing and cropping I use IrfanView. Does the trick for most simple tasks and is quick to start up.

IrfanView is also brilliant, a fast viewer that also does many of the most commonly needed editing tasks. I have not yet tried out any of the plugins, so up to now I cannot comment on video in IrfanView, but for graphics it is great!

If anyone has tried the video plugins please comment about how well they work - is this program a substitute for Windows Media Player as well?

Labels: software, video

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I use Irfanview a lot and my kids like it too. We don't use it for video or as a substitute for WMP. But it's great for cropping, resizing and conversion which I seem to do a lot. My kids are quite artistic with plain old Paint and have created entire adventure games full of graphic soldiers, snakes and monsters using that program plus a little HTML.

By David Ker, at July 26, 2008 2:20 AM

Here's the list of graphics programs I've used:
http://bibleandtech.blogspot.com/2007/04/regarding-images-and-such.html

By mgvh, at July 26, 2008 6:15 AM

David, are the games online for others to see?

By Tim, at July 26, 2008 1:37 PM

You might want to look at VLC for video playing tasks too. The transcoding wizard (and the fact it runs on Windows, Mac and Linux) makes it invaluable for me. You can add codecs to it too.

By Stephen G, at July 26, 2008 11:09 PM