Guest Author - Tammy Murks

We all like free, free is good! With all the freeware and shareware available right now for your photo editing needs, we should be able to help you find what you need. I did a good bit of research on this one. If you can't afford to pay anything for a photo editor, or have no desire to pay anything, you don't have to give up quality. Most of these photo editors are easy to use and move through. You open the program, upload you image, edit it as you desire and save the image. On most of them you can do anything from resizing your image to adding borders, flip or rotate the image and more. I will list what I can for you. Weather you are resizing an image for yourself, a friend, your email, or a website, one of these programs should work for you.

Gimp.org - Open source image editor for use with Unix/Linux. Features similar to Photoshop.

Paint.NET - Features include layers, painting and drawing tools, special effects, unlimited undo history, and levels adjustments. for Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Server 2003.

"> Photo Resize Magic 1.1 Edit your digital images and add some visual effects to them.

RealFileTools.com Photo Resize Magic - Photo Resize Tool for Windows
- file and disk management software ... This free software allows you to resize and convert your digital photos.

Serif PhotoPlus - Free fully-functional version of PhotoPlus 6: Editable text, image slicing and image maps, selection tools, smart shapes, third-party plug-in support, red-eye removal tool, and photo enhancement tools. PhotoPlus 6 works on Windows 95, 98, 98 SE, 2000, NT4, and XP.


VSO Image Resizer Freeware without any limitation, resize, compress, convert, create copies, create thumbnails, import or organize photos.