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You want to make your digital photos look their best, but you don't want to pay for the software that can make it happen? Breathe easy: There's an abundance of free products—both installed software and Web-based—that can do a surprising amount of photo editing and even enhancement without costing you a penny. Of course, you can't expect all the power and finesse of Adobe Photoshop CC, but you'll still be able to make your pictures to look good, along with easy and inviting way to share them with friends and family.
Here are the issues you need to look for when deciding: How easily does the photo editor let you transfer pictures from your digital camera to your computer? How effective and simple are its tools for editing your photos so that they'll look their best? And how easy does it make sharing photos online?
It's gotten easier than ever to transfer pictures from your digital camera's media card. When you connect the USB cable or insert the card into a media slot, these programs will start up, let you batch-name and upload all the new images—and even digital movies, since pretty much every point-and-shooter now includes video-recording capability. One of the programs, Picasa 3.9, makes working with scanners, webcams, and screen captures simpler, too.
Organizing your photos is another forte of these free applications, though of couse, you can't expect the high-powered, slick organization tools of an Adobe Lightroom. But with the free programs, you can group pictures based on folders created for each import session and virtual albums of pictures selected from these, and you can organize them by date or tags. Windows Photo Gallery lets you view just the photos taken on a specific date. iPhoto's Events does the same, even separating photo sessions by time and letting you merge and divide the Events to taste. — Names and Faces
How can the answer be improved? I finally had to to 'downgrade' to Windows 10 and lost all the programs I had, with the old computer. This computer came with some basic photo editing program apparently called 'Photo'. I'm not looking for the best photo editor, just something that can do what Microsoft 97 Photo editor used to do.