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15 Free Photography Software for Photographers

Digital Photo Software is designed for people who want to organize and share personal and family photos, you’ll really need to rely on softwares and applications to take care of those thousands of digital photos output from your DSLR or digital camera. We aren’t going to show you 15 great pieces of 100% free photography software and tools for photographers!

1. Google Picasa - Google Picasa allows you apply basic enhancements to your images (including cropping, auto contrast, fill-light, and preset effects) but the real power is the archiving and photo library management. Unfortunately Google Picasa is for Windows only at the moment.

Google Picasa

 

2. Microsoft Photo Story 3 - Microsoft Photo Story 3 is a tool from Microsoft designed to create animated presentations from images and photos. With Microsoft Photo Story 3 you can recreate vivid moments by including recorded narratives that liven up the image sequence and you can also add music and movement.

Microsoft Photo Story 3

 

3. Gimp - GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program and is often referred to as the free alternative to Adobe Photoshop. It’s available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (more information on the GIMP download page

Gimp

 

4. Photo Graffix - MultiMedia gallery software - create online image and video slideshows - easy to use - customizable galleries.

Photo Graffix

 

5. OnOne Produce Excellent photography software, including the industry renowned Genuine Fractals, and Photoshop effect suites. OnOne generously provide 15 free Photoshop effects with their PhotoTools 2 Lite plugin.

onone phototools 2 lite

 

6. Pictomio - Pictomio is Freeware and sets new standards for 3D accelerated browsing of your photo and video collection.

Pictomio

 

7. Qtpfsgui (HDR) - Qtpfsgui is application which allows you to produce high dynamic range (HDR) images by combining multiple exposures and rendering a tone-mapped image.

Qtpfsgui (HDR)

 

8. JAlbum - Create web photo albums to share with friends. Jalbum lets you create stunning web gallery presentations and publish them to you.jalbum.net or your own site.

JAlbum

 

9. Prettyphoto - prettyPhoto is a jQuery based lightbox clone. Not only does it support images, it also add support for videos, flash, YouTube, iFrames.

Prettyphoto

 

10. Kodak Easyshare - Easily organize, edit and print your photos online. Now offering professional quality prints and range of personalized photo gifts.

Kodak Easyshare

 

11. AAA Photo Album - With new version of AAA Web Album you can create absolutely unique web albums with your custom design or integrate photo albums generated .

AAA Photo Album

 

12. Scrapbook Flair - The most fun digital scrapbooking site on the Internet. Free digital scrapbook software, scrapbook templates, backgrounds, and scrapbook embellishments.

 

Scrapbook Flair

 

13. Photoshop Express - Photoshop Express is seriously slick. It’s a free online editing suite from Adobe which is fast, intuitive, and offers 2GB free online storage with image tagging.

Photoshop Express

 

14. Photosynth - The best thing to happen to photography since the digital camera.

photosynth

 

15. PhotoMeister - Edit and publish photos from digital cameras. Guided tour, sample output, list of features, completes manual, reviews and testimonials.

PhotoMeister