Editing software

[BoltonSte]

Good morning editors.

I need to tap into the org collective for this, I have a logo for work that I want to edit. It's a Jpeg, text and basic line image with solid background colours.

I need to re-jig the text and background colours to make it black/white so it's bold enough when it is printed on our labels. Where should I be looking for software?

It's a one off so I really need to be looking at freeware, the last time I did anything like this was on Photoshop an age ago, these days the wife takes the photos on her phone and edits them there.

Cheers

Ste

[Craigg]

https://www.gimp.org/

dont let the name put you off, Gimp is a free image editing tool, like Photoshop.

[Kenzie]

Gimp or Paint.net

[garynortheast]

Gimp is good but takes some while to get ones head around the complexities. Paint.net is astonishingly good and has a massive array of free plugins available.

[BoltonSte]

Thanks folks, I'll take a look at those.

Ste

[keith_d]

Someone else got there first, but Gimp would be my first choice for a free image editor.

To convert to black and white use Colours->Saturation and reduce it to Zero. Then go to Colours->Brightness-Contrast and adjust until you find a contrast which prints well.

The only gotcha is that 'Save' uses the Gimp storage format, so if you want a bitmap file you have to use File->Export instead.


Regards,

Keith.