Dawn Smith

Top 3 Digital Photography Freeware Programs

Choosing your digital photography equipment is never is. With such a range from amatuer to studio quality you need your wits about you

Digital Photography Freeware Software enables you to edit and improve the images you have taken with your digital camera without additional expense. It's a well known fact that Adobe Photoshop has established itself as being the standard based on which, other photo editing programs are measured. And it really does provide amazing performance, integration with other Adobe products and plenty of plug-ins and special features. But there are a number of freeware digital photography software products that give you the ability to rotate, crop, resize and do all types of other adjustments to your images.

ThumbsPlus 7.0

ThumbsPlus 7.0 features easy to use wizards for optimized image and catalog printing, as well as to create web pages, slide shows and contact sheets. A versatile batch converter allows complex image manipulations with more than 300 editing functions. ThumbsPlus is completely database-driven which allows sophisticated features such as the extensive search capabilities, user defined fields, image galleries, or the management of offline disks, even across a local network. Reads 114 graphic formats, JPEG 2000, Adobe DNG and RAW files from Canon, Fuji, Nikon, Olympus, Minolta, Panasonic, Pentax, Sony and Kodak. View, print, adjust, convert, resize, catalog and batch process files.

IrfanView

IrfanView is trying to create new and/or interesting features in its own way, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 8+ years). IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support. IrfanView is provided as freeware, but only for private, non-commercial use (that means at home).

Google Picasa

Google Picasa is perhaphs the best Digital Photography Freeware software. It's part of Google's mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. But just like other projects (Google Earth for example), Google acquired this software from another company - California based, named of Picasa on July 13th, 2004. The latest version of the product (Picasa 2) enables people to find, edit and share all of their digital pictures. When you open Picasa, it automatically scans your hard drive and finds all your photos and 3gp video clips and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with descriptive folder names. Furthermore, Picasa allows users to edit their photos, apply certain effects, email them, print them, make gift CDs and even post them on web blogs. One really great thing about this product is that it can display info about the camera that made the photo. There are some amazing effects available in the software that can help you turn regular pictures into works of art. With the 12 new visual effects you can improve your photos in a matter of seconds. If you want to take a bit more time, you can also tweak light and shadow levels as well as color saturation.

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