Free software to get more out of your pics

Many photographers and creatives use PhotoShop and its variants to get the most out of their images.
Although PS is exceptionally good (I do use it myself), it is expensive and requires a very fast computer to run well.
There are more and more software packages available that allow you to get some exceptional results from your photos, and some of them are even free!

One of these is called Picasa and it's available free from Google.

Picasa uses the Google search engine code to index every image on your PC. You can then make collections and sets of the images you have, edit them and more. Any edits that you do are fully reversible and made on a copy of the original image. It runs on virtualy any PC so you dont need the latest and fastest machines.

I have over 1 million images on my server here, and Picasa can find one image in under a second from them. One of the "hidden" features is that you can even search for images by colour!

You can get hold of a free copy of Picasa by downloading the Google Pack here: