Great Free Software Tools to Use for Photo Printing

If you want to improve the quality of your photo printing or find fun ways to turn your photos into printed works of art, the following free software tools can be a great way to start.

Kodak Easyshare Software

This free printer software provides a lot of features that can help you make better use of your photos once you’ve added them to your computer. Here are a few examples:

• Tagging and rating of your photos to make searching for the ones you want easier using the software’s built-in photo search feature
• Correcting red eye – one of the most common photo problems – can be done with the touch of a button
• Cropping and rotating photos can be done easily
• You can choose photos and blend them with music into a video that can be shared with friends and family
• Use the software to send photos to be printed or to your own photo printer

Picasa

This
free photo software comes to you from Google which has a reputation of releasing some outstanding products. Here are some reasons to give this one a test drive:

• Scans your computer to locate your photos even if they are scattered in a bunch of different folders and drives
• Lets you change the photo file names easily even for a group of pictures at one time
• Creates albums that you can use to organize and share your photos more easily and conveniently
• Gives you the option to add password protection to some of your photo albums in case you want to save their contents for select audiences

IrfanView

If you want to work with a
free photo software that has a long reputation, this is one is definitely worth considering. It has been around since 2003 and is still going strong thanks to a simple-to-use interface and features like the following:

• Lets you copy, crop and edit photos easily
• Gives you the option of creating slideshows using your photos – the finished product can be saved as an executable file and/or burned to a CD-Rom
• Allows you to add effects, such as blur, to your images
• Makes it easy to work with batches of images at one time

ADG Panorama Tools

You’ve taken some great pictures and now you want to use them in a unique and creative way that can be shared with others on the Internet? This free software gives you the option to do that.

• Combines multiple photos into a single 360 degree panorama shot seamlessly
• The panorama can be viewed as a moving image on a web site that is created for you through the software
• Create hotspots and add hyperlinks throughout the image so visitors can learn more about the individual shots or find other useful information relevant to the photos