Photo software

A friend is using Windows 2000 sp4 and has recently gotten into digital photos and is looking for some software. One things he really needs is to be able to lighten and/or darken a chosen photo, Plus red-eye removal and the general stuff. I was going to give him PhotoMeister (http://www.majorgeeks.com/PhotoMeister_d5034.html) mainly because it looks like it's easy to use which is REALLY important as he isn't really that savvy. He's not quite a noob, either though.... Anyway, if anybody has some other apps to suggest, I'd love to hear about 'em.
Thanks.

Oh yeah, freeware only please

 

I use PhotoFiltre. Does a lot of things, simply and the more you use it, the more things you learn it is capable of.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/PhotoFiltre_d4587.html

 

What I use on a very frequent basis is Photo Toolkit (http://www.majorgeeks.com/Photo_Toolkit_d5690.html) It has a great deal of good features, some of which I havent found in other apps (and trust me I tried alot!)

Not to mention, its easy enough for even me to useLOL

 

For free stuff, I agree with Musky, PhotoFiltre is a good program.

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Thanks for the recommendations.... what I've done is given him a choice of 4 different free apps. I said "use each one a few times and keep the one that does what you need and is the easiest". So we'll see what he keeps out of the following programs: PhotoFiltre, PhotoMeister, Photo Toolkit, and PhotoScape. All of 'em can be found right here at Major Geeks and 3 of the 4 have ratings over 4.0 so I'm sure he'll like one of 'em.
Thanks again!

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