So you’ve just returned from your trip with a billion digital photos.
You hook your USB cable up to your computer and download them all, watching as your experiences flash up on your screen. The places you visited, the people you met, are now reduced to some nicely categorized folders.
Now what?
If you’re a professional digital travel photographer, chances are, you’ve got the latest version of Adobe Photoshop (aff) booted up. You’ve poured the coffee, cracked your knuckles, and are about to attack your travel photos with passionate zest.
For the rest of us that aren’t interested in paying hundreds of dollars for professional photo editing software, there are a number of excellent alternatives. And best of all, you can download this photo editing software for free.
Picasa
(For Basic Users) | Download Picasa (aff)
Another Google product, Picasa is more than just a photo editor. It’s also a surprisingly easy way of sorting, tagging, and categorizing your photos.
Their built in photo features allow you to make fairly simple modifications to the contrast, brightness, and cropping of the photo, as well as red-eye removal. A number of filters also let you add some interesting colour and blur effects.
Other powerful features include sharing your photos via email, publishing to the web, and creating slideshow movies with ease. True to form, the interface will be familiar to anyone using other Google software.
So if you’re new to photo manipulation and you just want to make simple, basic edits, Picasa is the free photo editing software for you.
Ian MacKenzie
Ian MacKenzie is the founder and former editor of Brave New Traveler. He is a now a contributing editor to Matador, and the network's architect. Ian is also a documentary filmmaker, with his first feature (One Week Job) released in 2010.
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