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Free photo software

FreeSome of the best things in life are free, including these nifty and fully functional programs and utilities to help you in the digital darkroom. Programs include those to edit and enhance digital images,  to view and organize them, and even to help recover digital files you may have deleted. All programs were free at the time of posting. *

*Read disclaimers and operating system requirements posted at the developer’s site. You are solely responsible for software you download and install.

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5 Comments (add »)

  • On 22 March 2009 at 12:22 am zandyppandy said:

    Hi, 
    I have lots of photos on my pc, something went wrong and I could not view them, 2 days latter and loading a program disk that took over everything, it did everything i did not want it to do, all i wanted was to view them, I went on the your site and there was arcsoft, I realised that was what I had before but had forgotten, it was easy to download and believe me I am 100% thrilled. now I am going to download virtual photographer, now i wont just look at the pictures I will be able to print them for my 11 grandchildren. thank you,
    Sandy

  • On 21 April 2009 at 2:23 am ali qasim said:

     i want photo retouching.

  • On 21 April 2009 at 9:28 am Gail Bjork said:

    All the photo editing programs mentioned will let you retouch photos. Since they are all free, give a few a try to see the one that best meets your needs. For example, the latest version of Picasa has a Retouch tool.

  • On 29 April 2009 at 10:50 pm Karen said:

    hello, we are in search of a neat program that can say cut out things in a picture and place them in a background. Like for instance we own some neat collectible cars. I want to make picture of our car say in a Mountain background or take one of our cars and place them say in front of a 50’s 0r 60’s diner.
    Plus does this program take a picture and make it into a drawing or say clip art form? Can you please let me know… thanks so much

  • On 30 April 2009 at 10:46 am Gail Bjork said:

    You will need a program that has layering capabilities and lets you make selections and add layer masks. You can get more information about these techniques in our Advanced Editing section. You may have to end up buying something like Photoshop Elements or PaintShop Pro. But first download and try some of the free programs mentioned that have layering capabilities. When there is a clear definition between an object and its background, it’s easier to select and extract. Many programs have dozens of filter effects so you can make a image look like a sketch or cartoon. Here are some examples in a recent review we did of the online photo editing tool, Picnik.

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