# Best simple photo editor for PC? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 17, 2018, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simple-photo-editor-for-pc/821494 "2018-09-17T20:59:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sara20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@sara20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sara20)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2018, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simple-photo-editor-for-pc/821494/1 "2018-09-17T20:59:38Z")
Things like photoshop are to expensive and way to complicated for me to use. I am looking for a free program similar to the app snapseed, but that you can use on your PC, to make simple edits to photos. Does anyone have any recommendations they have tried? ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2018, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simple-photo-editor-for-pc/821494/2 "2018-09-17T22:29:35Z")
Irfanview. Free, tiny, efficient. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2018, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simple-photo-editor-for-pc/821494/3 "2018-09-17T22:38:08Z")
Second on Irfanview. Been using it for years. ---
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simple-photo-editor-for-pc/821494/4 "2018-09-18T01:40:08Z")
Have you tried Google Photos? Crop and colour correction in your browser. And the price is right. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simple-photo-editor-for-pc/821494/5 "2018-09-18T01:55:48Z")
MS Photos is fine for most basic edits, what specifically do you want to do? ---
**Author:** ![ASanders](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asanders/32/3367_2.png) [@ASanders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASanders)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simple-photo-editor-for-pc/821494/6 "2018-09-18T01:57:32Z")
I love [paint.net](http://paint.net). Highly recommend! ---
**Author:** ![ASGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@ASGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simple-photo-editor-for-pc/821494/7 "2018-09-18T02:00:14Z")
I’ll second [Paint.Net](http://Paint.Net). Does everything I normally need and is free. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simple-photo-editor-for-pc/821494/8 "2018-09-18T02:24:40Z")
Irfanview vote here. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simple-photo-editor-for-pc/821494/9 "2018-09-20T03:47:04Z")
A fourth vote for Irfanview here. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simple-photo-editor-for-pc/821494/10 "2018-09-20T10:38:01Z")
Did someone mention Irfanview already? Powerful, free (but Irfan takes donations if you want to send one) and easy to use. My mother can use it. My mother. That woman who still believes that the best remote control is one that came out of your uterus, she knows how to use Irfanview to turn wrong-position pictures right-side-up and save them. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simple-photo-editor-for-pc/821494/11 "2018-09-20T11:27:36Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > My mother. That woman who still believes that the best remote control is one that came out of your uterus You owe me one (1) keyboard. ---
**Author:** ![JB99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/439d5e/32.png) [@JB99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JB99)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simple-photo-editor-for-pc/821494/12 "2018-09-20T13:45:26Z")
I use GIMP. ---
**Author:** ![Emergency911](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/43a26b/32.png) [@Emergency911](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emergency911)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simple-photo-editor-for-pc/821494/13 "2018-09-20T13:48:42Z")
Gimp for me as well, but I’m going to check Irfanview now. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simple-photo-editor-for-pc/821494/14 "2018-09-20T14:09:50Z")
I’m the only one that uses PhotoScape? Also free and easy to use. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simple-photo-editor-for-pc/821494/15 "2018-09-20T14:15:48Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > You owe me one (1) keyboard. Well, I’m sort of in the vicinity these weeks, we could meet for coffee at a fnac and I repay you 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simple-photo-editor-for-pc/821494/16 "2018-09-20T16:41:09Z")
GIMP is good, but not simple, and grossly over featured for simple photo editing. ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simple-photo-editor-for-pc/821494/17 "2018-09-21T14:06:11Z")
> [@Emergency911](#): > > Gimp for me as well, but I’m going to check Irfanview now. As someone else mentioned, you might try [photo.net](http://photo.net). If you are working with GIMP, you are probably looking for more features than Irfanview provides.