Some sugestion about a image editing program?

With these features attributes:

. Easy-to-use! - determinant;
. Only with the essencial features - don't needed a bit of a mess...;
. To OS Win 2000.

I'll appreciate yours guidances. Thanks!

Here's a couple to get you going, I'm sure others may have other suggestions ( both work with 2000 and I have used both)

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/PhotoPlus/
http://picasa.google.com/

For the basic editing that most people most often do, its hard to beat FastStone Image Viewer.

Irfanview

It depends on what your doing. If you editing family pictures to take to somewhere and get printed then picasa is the program your looking for. Just import and organize your pictures. Then go through and edit them.

Editing in picasa is pretty much only 2 steps. Press one button that says "I'm feeling lucky" and then press the red eye button and drag a box over the affected eyes. Thats it! Your pictures will look clean and professional.

If your trying to make things for web pages ect your probably better getting stuff like these:
http://www.getpaint.net/index2.html
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/downloads/2169799/xara-xs
http://www.photofiltre.com/

I appraised the hints very much.

I couldn't install Paint.NET in win 2000. However I readed about and isn't what I want for now (same for Photofiltre, Xara-xs, PhotoPlus). Picasa is a good organiser.

IrfanView is a useful viewer but with a poor editor features.

FastStone Image Viewer is what I need with a easier and indispensable image editing. And a good viewer.

Thanks a lot.

Just downloaded Faststone Image Viewer after reading about it on here. Appears to be really fast and the 2.9 beta2 version supports camera card downloading. Love the left click zoom tool.

Also downloaded the Faststone Capture Tool from next page over from TeeJay3800s above link. http://www.faststone.org/download.htm
Never had a screen capture tool before, but this one IMHO seems to be really good.
Love the "Scroll Down The Whole Page" capture.

Regards

I have Paint.NET which is finally running stable on my system, it was unusable for the last several versions as it would randomly crash or not even load, I mostly use it for creating icons, and maybe once in a while printing out the tracklist on some audio CD art before importing the image into Microsoft Publisher.

Although I like Paint.NET it hasn't did away with me going back and forth between it, IrfanView, and even Microsoft Paint. It's supposed to be a complete replacement for Microsoft Paint however there's still some very basic quick and simple likings I have with Microsoft Paint that even payware painting tools haven't replaced and all without reading a thick manual.

You can try HP's free imaging software.

HP Photosmart Essential

I use Gimp (Portable) or Paint.net

I couldnt imagine living without both of these programs, Faststone rocks....