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Question Recommendations for a photo editing program for beginners?

mikeymikec

mikeymikec

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One of my customers wants to scan in and enhance photos that are in poor condition. I can show them how to use their scanning program to get a detailed and lossless image, but I'm not knowledgeable about photo editing / restoration (about the best work I've done in recent years was with Paint Shop Pro 5 and the clone brush to remove some of my mum's tendency to write on photos).

In yesteryear I would have suggested Photoshop Elements as it was (relative to Photoshop) cheap, but apparently PE has moved over to a subscription model too these days. My customer hasn't ruled out a subscription but it feels silly to get them locked into a subscription only to find that this really isn't their cup of tea.
 
bba-tcg said:
Can't they get a monthly sub that would allow them to see whether that's the program for them?
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I'll check, but this is Adobe so I expect not. - edit - yup, £87 buys one a "three-year licence" (previously the price for a standalone licence).
 
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I like the PSP mention. I still use v7 for quick easy stuff, but a beginner trying to retouch old photos might not turn out well with anything besides Let-AI-Do-It-All. I'd recommend to them to just scan them in and let them sit until they polish their skills.

I'd leave what your mom wrote on the photos. That's nostalgia.
 
mindless1 said:
a beginner trying to retouch old photos might not turn out well with anything besides Let-AI-Do-It-All.
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That might be a way to go. If they have an Nvidia GPU with at least 8GB VRAM, Wangp can work locally, for free, almost like Grok or other online AIs.

github.com

GitHub - deepbeepmeep/Wan2GP: A fast AI Video Generator for the GPU Poor. Supports Wan 2.1/2.2, Qwen Image, Hunyuan Video, LTX Video and Flux.

A fast AI Video Generator for the GPU Poor. Supports Wan 2.1/2.2, Qwen Image, Hunyuan Video, LTX Video and Flux. - deepbeepmeep/Wan2GP
github.com github.com

It says "video" but it does images too.
 
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