• Ayin — the photo editor I was looking for

    FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT

    Deanna McElveen

    By Deanna McElveen

    The things you can do with photos these days are nothing short of a modern marvel. What is also a modern marvel is the thick user manual for photo-editing software: a barber could use one to raise up a kid in his chair.

    I just want a small and portable program that I can use to quickly zip through dozens of photos and do quick edits on them. Luckily for me, I found Fares Ahmed, a young student from Egypt who created just what I needed. Ayin (“eye” or “to see” in English) is a free, portable, and open-source photo-editing software package for Windows.

    Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.35.0, 2024-08-26).