Thursday, February 7, 2008

Photo Editing

Here are a couple of tips for photo editing. There are a lot of free options that you can use for photo editing. One of them is Picasa. Picasa is available free from Google, and has a lot of neat features. You can search photos by date, instantly, which is really handy. Picasa also lets you organize and name your photos for easy searching. For instance, you could name a photo Hawaii vacation 2007, and when you go to search for "Hawaii" vacation 2007, you can find that special photo easily.

There are other photo editing programs out there to. I am not a huge fan of Kodak, but I have used the software before. For the pros, there is Adobe Photoshop CS2 or CS3. I currently have the CS2 version, but I want to upgrade soon. Adobe Photoshop CS3 gives you a wealth of options, including DVD menu editing for Adobe DVD maker 2.0. It may look intimidating at first look, but once you get used to the software, it is well worth it. But don't go spend $650.00 to $1000.00 on software just to edit family photos.

A couple of Photoshop alternatives are Paint.Net and The Gimp, which is free software. If any of you out there have any favorite photo editing software, post a comment and let us know. I would be happy to answer any questions you have.

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