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My favorite is Google's Picassa

http://picasa.google.com/intl/en/#utm_source=en-all-more&utm_campaign=en-pic&utm_medium=et

It has a large number of option, but one I really like is that it understands photos with location information and can show where a photo was taken on a map.

If you use iPhone, and setup the Camera to use Location information, all your iPhone photos can be put into picassa, fixed up, cropped, enhanced, etc., and then uploaded to Google's own photo site. If you have a gmail account, you already have 5 GB of photo storage that you can allow (or not) others to see if you wish.

Picassa -- works great, and is free, and pouplar.

Jeff

PS: IF you have a gmail account (or want to create one) you can upload photos to
https://picasaweb.google.com/home

Check out one of my albums here: https://picasaweb.google.com/117693125290660564563/August2012SamsungWB150?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCJngzaCQj6WGxgE&feat=directlink

Multiple albums, photo sharing, etc.

Picasa sucks no offence personal experience. in that it loads all your images into a duplicate folders taking up space just for itself.
Can you post a photo you want touched up so I can test my free tools.

Reducing the amount or colour of hairs on a hand is not as simple as it sounds.

Andrew

I use Faststone Image Viewer, its free and multi-functional

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The images you posted as a challenge are simply too small with too little detail for any reasonable editing filter to work very well. Try your own program on the 6KB image.

Fortunately, I don't have any photos of people that hairy, but I do have photos of squirrels and rabbits, and other zoo animals, but the hair on them is to be expected so I can't imagine a scenario in which I'd want to remove the hair on them.

It looks to me like your original photos were far more detailed (more pixels) and of course, more pixels gives these programs more to work with, more things to repair, etc.

The features I use involve organizing, fixing hue, contrast, brigthness, detail, and cropping which is easy with Picassa, and uploading photos is also easy, and it keeps copies of the original automatically so I don't have to keep originals and copies myself. In that way, it's more like iPhoto, which by the way, can't fix the low quality hairy arm.

And hard disk space is not an issue for me, I have a few terrabytes on my network drives, and several USB 3.0 drives to keep a photo library, along with other collections.

Have fun. PS: I really don't know anyone with that much hair on an arm, and absolutely no females with that much hair. I'm lucky I guess <<grin>>

Lol,
I just found them for illustration :)
hand hairs arm hairs :)
I am not limited by the size of an image, it really boils down to the right tools.
Free tools are limited however some success can be achieved with knowledge and experience.
We just don't know the complexity of the photos pauledwardian has so I'd wait till he can provide this details to better assist him.
All he said>> I need to remove or less the hand hairs on my photos so it doesnt appear a lot. Like lightening the hand hair etc
Using Coral Paint with magic wand and adjustment to de-speckle with Salt and Pepper filter
Here's an example of the complexity
Not great but made a difference

I also have tons of space, it was only a point that Picasa is hooked into the net and copies all and any photo on the HDD creating folders for itself everywhere it finds a photo.

cheers
Merete

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OMG those are NOT my arms
you know better BillDL ( grins) but thank you for the tip.
Maybe the asker should encourage the people in his photos to use it since he asked about removing hairs from hands :P
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I still don't think an image that has been reduced in size, less detail, can be edited as easily as one with the original pixel density. I've been editing photos too, and reducing the image size is the LAST thing to do AFTER any editing.

The image provided of the chimpanzee's arm was already reduced in size, and a real challenge. And the edit job shown on that image looks worse than the original hairy arm <<grin>>

Thanks for the tip on the shaver tool. I did some hunting with google and found a "Barbershop" toolbox snap-in and it works great !!

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Thanks!

I hope you know I was just kidding about the Razor in Paint.Dot Net
We were just horsing around ;)
You didn't make one comment or ask any further questions.
I take it you found some answers from our comments.
Glad to have helped.
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Thank you Paul.