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All I want to be able to do is:

1. Open BMP, GIF and JPG.
2. Reduce colour depth to black, white and two shades of grey.
3. Crop images.
4. Edit bitmaps.
5. Save as BMP.

Huge, multifeature graphics powerhouses not required, I just want a fairly basic image editor only slightly better than Windows Paint - I just need to be able to reduce 24 bit colour images down to four shades of grey.

I've downloaded Paintshop Pro Evaluation version - which would do the job very well - three times in the last 24 hours from three different mirror sites, and each time it was corrupted.

Can anyone tell me where I can get an uncorrupted version, or what might be causing the problem, or better still simply recommend something that doesn't take four bloody hours to download before crashing?

Thanks

Anyone?

ever hear of GIMP....let me look fo it

http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Graphics/Image_Editing/The_GIMP

Irfanview (http://www.irfanview.com/) is another good one - it's a lot more lightweight than the GIMP which probably has a lot more in the way of features than you need. It's less than a megabyte to download.

Did I mention that it's completely free (not even shareware).

We talking about a Windows/Linux or Mac platform here?

...Windows Paint..
should be a clue, I think!

...uncorrupted version...
should be other clue, I think!

Just checking how closely you checked I didn't check the backlog, pheloxi

There's a shareware (but unlimited use) prog on the mac called 'Graphic Converter' I think - there's also a Windows version

Hello everyone. Happy New Year.

Thank you stjarna for your posting. I have just downloaded irfanview, to see what it can do.

try adobe they do a free one photo see results from link on my
page to foltiki (cats) also on msn some with photo 7 come with
msn 8 though can stand msn results on hannahshome freind link
on cat thread

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopalbum/starter.html
adobe
worth a try usefull as comparason.

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Alji

get a demo copy of Paintshop Pro (v7 I have) cos the timeout expiry on the demo doesn;t work (well, mine is still running )

Not that I recomend you do that of course. And it might just be my machine that does this!

try www.tucows.com loadsa stuff there - linux and Winduz

they are all free on Kazaa and Suprnova