Digital Photography Downloads
PC World recently published an article 10 Great Digital Photography Downloads. In it it lists 10 downloads (all free) that help your edit, manipulate, and organize your digital photos. I wholeheartedly agree with their recommendation of GIMP, Picasa 3, and Image Resizer for Windows and can only imagine the rest are useful as well.
I have found Picasa 3 (and the online storage of Google Picasa) very useful for editing, organizing, and uploading my photos. It does have its limitations and I have used Photoshop in the past to make up for those limitations. But Photoshop is expensive and I’ve more recently started using GIMP in the hopes that it can replace Photoshop as my advanced tool of choice. Picasa 3 lets you export images to a folder and resize them, but you can also easily resize images on the fly with the Image Resizer for Windows.
Filed under: Software on February 15th, 2010
Good list! Like yourself I’ve only tried a handful, but if my bread and butter was photography I’d give the rest a whirl without hesitation. I’m only disappointed they didn’t include any panorama stitching software, or that sort of thing. I’ve found a little freebie called AutoStitch invaluable and easy to use. It’s got a lot of power under the hood which is why I sometimes don’t get the results I expected, especially when trying to stitch more thant ten or twenty pictures (but there are plenty of settings to help with those rare problems), but it usually does the trick very well.