Features Overview

• Very simple and easy to use.
• Supports several picture formats, including gif, jpg, psd, png, bmp and more.
• Can easily remove the applied effects one by one.

Review

PhotoPad is a free basic photo editor for Windows, very simple and easy to use. It could be named as a Notepad for pictures, although it does have some mildly advanced features. Basically what PhotoPad can do is help you do some basic editing jobs on your pictures, like removing red eyes or blemishes or cropping your photos.

The interesting thing is that once you applied several effects on your picture you can easily remove those effects one by one, without removing the other applied effects. You can also add text boxes in your picture easily.

PhotoPad supports around a dozen picture formats, the most popular ones like bitmap, jpeg, png or even targa files (tga) or Photoshop documents (psd).

If you want a tool that can make basic corrections to your pictures without getting too complicated PhotoPad might be a solution. There are a few basic effects and corrections available, enough to suit the basic needs of a not very demanding user.

Version Tested

1.15

Author

NCH Software

Operating System

Windows All

Download link

Summary

Very simple and easy to use.

You can easily remove one of the applied effects without affecting the other effects.

The interface looks ugly, but it might be just a matter of personal taste.

Could use a few more effects.

Rating

Verdict

Obviously there’s no way one could compare PhotoPad to The Gimp, they are in a whole different league. But the simplicity that PhotoPad offers might be enough to consider using this freeware program. You could also use it if you are a Gimp user and you don’t want to get too complicated if you only want to quickly crop a picture and apply some basic effects to it.

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