i just took some pics of the bike and want to edit a few things on them but all the programs i have on here (paint, trial version of corel photo) wont let me do what i need to do, any ideas on a free downloadable editor off the net?

 

what do you need to do? Gimp is free, but I dont know of any other truely free ones.

 

i just nee dto be able to circle and type text in, draw a few arrows to point out stuff, paint doesnt work b/c it blows my pics up huge and wont let me resize them

 

Best Free one for basic editing I have found is Irfanview.
Link here: http://www.irfanview.com/

I use it and PSP8, which is not free for my editing.

 

http://picasa.google.com

And they give you a free GB of web storage for photos - basic editing (Brightness, Contrast, Color, B/W, Sepia, etc.), but oh so easy to use.

 

Hmm...never heard of Picasa. Downloaded it..will have to try it. Cool.

 

GIMP...almost like photoshop...not quite as polished...but completely free and allows a TON of editing options...

NOTE: it's not for the faint-hearted...it has a lot of features....if you can use photoshop, you can use GIMP although I personally don't think it's as easy, but in a pinch, it allows you to do all the same things....

 

what's wrong with MS Paint if you need it for simple stuff?

 

I'd just like to reiterate the top three choices for freebies. All of them very competent for doing what you are asking, though The Gimp has a learning curve to it.
Ifranview
The Gimp
Picasa

also, might not be important to you, but the second two I know for sure are linux-compatible(I am an Ubuntu user), and I'm not sure about the first one.

 

mspaint will allow you to resize them.

if you go to image>strech/skew you'll need to enter a % to change the size of the picture.

say if you pick is 640px wide and you only want it 200px. you do 200/640=.3125

You'd strech the horizontal and vertical(to keep the correct aspect ratio)by 31% and it will shrink it