On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 17:01:11 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/8/2018 12:56 PM, John H. wrote:

Methinks you've not looked at Irfanview in a while!



I've used Irfanview for years.
I installed the latest version of less than a year ago when I bought
this computer along with a few of the plug-ins that I wanted.
I use it as my default image viewer and occasionally for cropping, color
correction or adding text, etc. It's great for that but it's primarily
an image *viewer*, not an image *editor* which is what Gimp and
Photoshop are. Huge difference and you really can't compare Irfanview
to Gimp or Photoshop. Irfanview has very limited editing capabilities.

For example, try opening two (or more) image files in Irfraview at the
same time. You can't. In Gimp you can open as many as you want, take
sections of one image and paste it in another. Here's an example:

https://tinyurl.com/yap2hxcl

Gimp (and Photoshop) have a much higher learning curve. Takes a while
to understand all of their capabilities and how to use them. I don't
use (or understand) a fraction of what Gimp can do.

I use Paint Shop and I have V3, V4 & V7.
They are all different enough that I keep all 3. V7 is very good and
has features I have not even tried yet.