Photo Editors

[camdave]

I am trying to find a simple photo editor that will perform all the basic functions such as crop, size, brightness etc. However having tried various programs over the past year or so they all (paid or free) seem to insist on extracting all photos on the system (including MS wallpaper etc.) and creating massive folders.

I don't want the software to sort my photos with geotags, face recognition etc. I want to leave them as holidays, family or whatever.

ULead was great in this respect but all the current crop of programs appear to be geared toward social networks.

I hope I am not alone in this, any ideas?

[Simon]

Sorry to ask what might be the obvious, but have you tried Paint (in Windows)?

[Baz]

dont think this is what you are looking for as its more of an image viewer but i use http://www.irfanview.com/ but it can do the basics you mention

[Glenn]

How about paint.net http://www.getpaint.net/

or

ACDSee http://www.acdsee.com/

[peterbeaumont]

This has always worked for me... http://www.gimp.org/

[colirv]

I, like Baz, use Irfanview.

[camdave]

Thanks all - I'll try out the suggestions and see how we go.