Not really a CC3 question, but -- Win 11 Photo not recognizing jpgs
Glitch
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I just upgraded to Win 11 - it looks like CC3 runs fine. The issue I'm running into is that win photo doesnt open for some images. Anyone else running into this problem?
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I'm still running Win 10, so can't advise directly, but I recall Win 10 had a lot of issues with various of its supposed add-on apps early on as well, including Photos (and it still does from time to time).
However, checking online now, it seems you're not alone in having problems getting Win 11 to open JPG images in Photos. This topic on the MS Forum may cover what you're running into, with luck.
See if Irfanview will recognize them. If it does, the problem is in Win 11.
Thanks @Wyvern that pointed me in the right direction. This is a Win11 problem. After banging around for awhile, I got it working. But that leads to the next question - I'm pretty sure others have asked it, but what image processing software do you use (outside of cc3)?
To view images I use Irfanview. To edit images I use krita.
@Glitch I make a lot of art assets for Profantasy, so I use a lot of graphics apps to make them.
Krita and GIMP are the free ones I use, but I do most of my work these days in Affinity Photo or Designer. I'm told that AP and AD are reasonable PS substitutes if you don't care about having the really specialist PS tools. They're also one-time purchase, rather than rental.
What kind of work are you aiming to do?
Right now I'm very low on the learning curve - I'm still learning the basic terminology. Looking for simple editing, with the option of eventually growing into developing my own assets. I suspect that eventually I will need more than one app, but am hoping to find one to start with that will grow with me. There are tons of apps out there - my list of apps to explore are:
Irfran View
Foto Sketcher
Kitra
Gimp
Affinity Photo/Designer
Blender
Windows Photo
Photoshop
Paint
Any others? Any ones NOT to look at?
Symbol work:
I recommend getting all the free ones, and starting with GIMP in particular, since a lot of the Tome explanations about making new bitmap symbols involve using GIMP, so the help is already there for you. There are also far more YouTube tutorials for GIMP than any other free bitmap editor, including Krita (though that comes a close second).
However, as you progress and learn more and more stuff, you will discover that GIMP has limitations. It doesn't do live filters (where a bevel effect updates as you draw, or the shadow matches newly drawn bits on that layer). Most purchased apps like AP do have live filters which makes them a lot easier to use. I still use GIMP today because it is best for trimming and finishing images exported from other apps.
Texture work:
A lot of apps claim to make textures seamless, but to be perfectly honest the results depend a lot on you having an eye for the right kind of image to try and make seamless. It must be fairly evenly detailed and evenly coloured in the first place to get good results.
Krita is best if you want to have a go at hand painting seamless textures. You can press the W key on your keyboard and draw right off one side of the canvas and back onto the opposite side. It's a bit hard to explain, but you'll see what I mean once you try it.
There are some extremely expensive dedicated seamless texture editors out there. I can't recommend any of them since I am still using a rather old piece of abandonware (Genetica, which wasn't abandonware when I first bought it). I strongly recommend you don't buy Genetica because the image library is totally gone and there is absolutely no support whatsoever. There's another piece of abandonware out there that comes up a lot in searches, but which you pay for and never receive an activation key. I had to get my money back by setting my bank's fraud investigators onto the sellers. Since it was a few years ago that this happened to me I can't remember the exact name of it, so I wouldn't want to accidentally besmirch the name of a perfectly ok and legitimate app by telling you "it was this one", or "It was that one". Just be really really careful if you go down that road. Check the app has an active forum, and that there aren't any bad things being said about it online anywhere before you buy it.
If you have any problems trying to make new stuff, just ask. This is a CC3 forum, but that doesn't mean we don't deal with creation issues. If I can't help you, then others will.
If you are looking for a simple and free editor, I like Paint.net. (Not to be confused with Paint. They have both a free and a paid version. Same program, paid one is just to support them). Gimp is also free and a bit more fully featured, but also more complex to work with.
(My personal image editor of choice is Paint Shop Pro 7, but that is over 20 years old, so probably not where you should start out today. It is only slightly newer than my image viewer of Choice, ACDSee 2.42 from 1999. I teach university level students younger than some of the software I use)
I'm still exploring options here - but it does look like Affinity is one of the more flexible (and so more complex to learn). For anyone who is interested in checking out Affinity - they are currently having their 1/2 off sale. So if you are interested, now is a good time to check it out or acquire addons.
I'm also playing with Kitra and IrfanView, both are free. I find IrfanView a little more intuitive.
According to people who have used both Affinity and PS, Affinity is not as complicated to learn as PS. That's probably because PS is carrying around a whole ton of legacy stuff, whereas Affinity is relatively new - or at least the Windows version is relatively new.