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On Microsoft better than Paint is Photoscape, which is also free if you stick to the basic package. Cropping is much better - even allows circular cropping, and has many Photoshop features for adjusting brightness, balance etc. It's resize function - essential for getting into the 500Kb limit here - is also easy.

Thanks Stuart, I will have to buy that now

http://www.galata.co.uk/store.asp?storeAction=showDetail&stockID=6511 I can’t get the link to work, but you can buy the book from Galata Roll over large image for zoom The Hammered Silver Coins produced at the Tower Mint during the Reign of Elizabeth I I D Brown, Chris H Comber and Walter Wilkinson, with photographs by Paul Withers. Published by Galata Print Ltd., Llanfyllin. 2006, the latest revised edition, 2016, with corrections and additions. PB 84 pages. A4, 210 x 297mm. Detailed tables of all privy marks, legend variations and die pairings. Clever detailed line drawings of bust varieties. Photographs in b&w of all denominations. Covers the English, Irish and East India Company coins. New. This highly detailed book begins with the a history of the coinage of Queen Elizabeth I. This is followed by tables of all 11 denominations of the English coins and their various busts, initial marks and where dated, their dates. Then tables of all six of the Irish coins and their initial marks, etc. Then the 8, 4, 2 and 1 testerns of the East India Company coins. Then there are enlarged line drawings of the punches used for all of the coinages. There is a bibliography. The book ends with five appendices: List of privy marks; Indentures; Records of Pyx trials; The research collection, and Estimates of the number of coins struck. Published by Galata Print Ltd., Llanfyllin. Silver coins of Elizabeth I. English silver coins. Irish silver coins. East India Company silver coins. Catalogue number 6511 Quantity Price £30.00

Well you learn something every day. I have never heard of Photoscape, I have always used Photoshop. Just downloaded it to have a look and its far better than I thought it would be. Will be having a play with it over the next few days, but from what I have seen so far it will be very useful indeed. Thanks for sharing this.

Agreed I would be lost without my photoscape. Even to do that 1/2 degree rotation to straighten the coin up is so valuable for picture presentation. Most programs don't do such small rotations. I would recommend it to anyone especially being a free program

I think you have posted the wrong link - it takes me to MY summary page, not your selling list! Also I think the mods will point out that notifications of things for sale on Ebay should go in the For sale section. I will certainly have a look when I get the right link - I have some upgrades to make at the moment.

definitely 3b