Bill Gates, you bastard

[kindkit]

Fucking Microsoft removed its photo editor program from Windows 7! Jesus Christ on a Vespa, what sort of company removes functionality from its upgrades?

It doesn't even seem to be the case that they want to sell an extra program; they just tell users to go to the Windows Live Gallery, which apparently has some photo editing capabilities. But (a) I don't want to go to Windows Live Gallery just to edit a damn photo, and (b) from what I've read, WLG doesn't have the same editing features.

So, anybody got recommendations for a free photo editing program? I don't want anything as complicated as GIMP, I just want to be able to crop and resize, do some simple color adjustments (brightness, contrast, etc.), rotate, that sort of thing. What the Microsoft Photo Editor did, in other words.


ETA: After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, I've found the kind of simple, idiot-proof program I wanted: Photo!Editor.

Comments

[ten]

paint.NET may be what you want? I got it myself for testing purpose and it seems to work fine. (I only didn't keep it because I already have PS.)

[cathexys]

Yup, that's my suggestion as well.

I like it for the stuff I need and it was much easier to learn than PS for me...

[kindkit]

I downloaded this, but . . . maybe I'm using it wrong, or just an idiot, but it seems pretty user-unfriendly for simple tasks. Like, there's no way to tell it "crop five pixels off the left side of this image" except by using the rectangle selection tool, which I can never get to be precise (and plus the placement of the rules makes it hard to see how many pixels the image is anyway).

If I'm missing something obvious, please tell me! Anyway, thanks for the suggestion.

[ten]

Sorry, I never tried any specific tasks like that with it (like I said, PS user.) It was just the only freeware less complicated than Gimp that I knew of.

But I see you found what you needed, so all is good :)