I'm utterly appalled by the overkill I'm encountering in my search for photo editing software. If I wanted a Ph.D I'd go to M.I.T., I wouldn't be messing with Apple Aperture 1.5. For crying out loud, all I want to do is fix some lousy pictures, not publish a fashion magazine. Would someone kindly help me out. I'm running Mac 10.3 on a G3 machine with plenty of extra memory. iPhoto is not my cup of tes, it has a full complement of baloney functions none of which do much for the image. I have no intention of taking out a bank loan for some of the software I've encountered so far.
This is the scenario, I have a shoe box full of old analog pictures. Some are too light, some too dark, some out of focus, and some are hopeless. I am disinterested in everything else photo editing does that doesn't address those issues.
I have a good scanner, and in my mind's eye I see myself scanning these photos, exporting them to my computer where I fix the mess and then send them to my printer for hard copies. Is this such an impossible dream?I equate expensive software with right angle learning curves. I feel the cheaper it is, the fewer will be the procedures in which I have zero interest. I'm open to ideas by sympathetic persons (please don't sing the praises $299.99 software).
This is the scenario, I have a shoe box full of old analog pictures. Some are too light, some too dark, some out of focus, and some are hopeless. I am disinterested in everything else photo editing does that doesn't address those issues.
I have a good scanner, and in my mind's eye I see myself scanning these photos, exporting them to my computer where I fix the mess and then send them to my printer for hard copies. Is this such an impossible dream?I equate expensive software with right angle learning curves. I feel the cheaper it is, the fewer will be the procedures in which I have zero interest. I'm open to ideas by sympathetic persons (please don't sing the praises $299.99 software).