IrfanView Is A Quick And Easy Photo Editing Solution

I took the news that Picnik was closing up shop pretty hard because I loved having a quick and easy way of editing my photos for my blogs. All the little gadgets that came with the premium service were really cool and user friendly. I guess it’s time to adapt and overcome so I’ve been checking out some of the sites that others in the community have recommended and some of them are pretty good, but many of them are kind of cumbersome or not very user friendly.

This morning I happened to be resizing a pic for a friend and realized I already had a gem of a program on my desktop that I hadn’t even thought of using for my blog photos. Allow me to introduce you to IrfanView. It’s a small program that can do a whole bunch of things. It’s not a full photo editing suite, but it’s definitely worth having considering it’s free. It can resize or resample a photo, quick fix, sharpen, rotate or flip, add effects and a whole lot more. I’ve had the program for about 3 years and never realized it did all this cool stuff. I always knew it was easy and user friendly, I just didn’t realize how pwerful a tool it was.

Click the link to IrfanView’s website to download it. I actually used it to crop the pic in this post. It literally took me 17 seconds to screen shot from their website and then crop it and save it. Pretty cool, quick, and easy. Let me know what you guys think and have fun.