Have you got a new digital camera? Disappointed with the pictures? Yeah, me too, but my story has a happy ending. I was given a camera for Christmas by my aunt, who splashed out on a small Nikon DSLR, bless her. But my pics were awful until someone told me to get some proper photo editing software. That's when I started searching, and searching, and getting more and more confused by the minute. Then I had a major breakthrough.
This is what I found: a site called Photo Software News that not only gives you news about all the latest stuff but also has a really big directory to photo editing software and hundreds of other photo-related products. This is great, because I can't afford Adobe Photoshop, unless my folks lend me the money as "an investment." Fortunately, there're plenty of alternatives, more than I ever imagined. And guess what? A lot of them are free! I found a list on the same site to the top 50 free photo software programs -- including several photo editors. It's just what I wanted and I've already tried 3 of them with great results.
When I was browsing the site I came to realize there's a lot more to this topic than just photo editing. For example, the section on Panorama Software is enormous, with programs for stitching images together to make very high-res prints even from a low-res camera.
If you are a beginner like me you can skip all the stuff for pro photographers such as how to manage a pro studio, or manage your "workflow" and go straight to the Beginners section. It's a good place to start, because you can check out the special prices on the commercial software or, like I said, download the 50 top freebies. I've already taken thousands of pictures with my new camera, which means my computer is totally cluttered with them. But there are some great free organizing software to solve that problem, and now I can concentrate on shot selection, color correction and getting rid of that pesky red-eye in flash pics (which seems to be green-eye in dogs, if they look straight at you).
One other thing: if you want to find your way around all the best photo sites, there's a start page that seems to belong to the same pages, but it has its own web address at Photo Start Sheet. I can see why they've done this, because it has hundreds of links to other photo directories and even to general interest sites so you can make it your permanent home page. That is what I've done, so I'm now just a couple of clicks away from just about every photo site on the Internet. It saves a lot of time which I can spend on taking photos and on using my new photo editing software. It is all thanks to my dear kind Aunt Jessie. - 30452
This is what I found: a site called Photo Software News that not only gives you news about all the latest stuff but also has a really big directory to photo editing software and hundreds of other photo-related products. This is great, because I can't afford Adobe Photoshop, unless my folks lend me the money as "an investment." Fortunately, there're plenty of alternatives, more than I ever imagined. And guess what? A lot of them are free! I found a list on the same site to the top 50 free photo software programs -- including several photo editors. It's just what I wanted and I've already tried 3 of them with great results.
When I was browsing the site I came to realize there's a lot more to this topic than just photo editing. For example, the section on Panorama Software is enormous, with programs for stitching images together to make very high-res prints even from a low-res camera.
If you are a beginner like me you can skip all the stuff for pro photographers such as how to manage a pro studio, or manage your "workflow" and go straight to the Beginners section. It's a good place to start, because you can check out the special prices on the commercial software or, like I said, download the 50 top freebies. I've already taken thousands of pictures with my new camera, which means my computer is totally cluttered with them. But there are some great free organizing software to solve that problem, and now I can concentrate on shot selection, color correction and getting rid of that pesky red-eye in flash pics (which seems to be green-eye in dogs, if they look straight at you).
One other thing: if you want to find your way around all the best photo sites, there's a start page that seems to belong to the same pages, but it has its own web address at Photo Start Sheet. I can see why they've done this, because it has hundreds of links to other photo directories and even to general interest sites so you can make it your permanent home page. That is what I've done, so I'm now just a couple of clicks away from just about every photo site on the Internet. It saves a lot of time which I can spend on taking photos and on using my new photo editing software. It is all thanks to my dear kind Aunt Jessie. - 30452
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To find my way around all the best photo sites on the web I had used PhotoStartSheet.
