For the full details on each personal photo-editing and-sharing solution, follow the links below to read our in-depth reviews. Flickr Together, Flickr and Aviary supply the functionality of the other players in this list—Flickr the online sharing and Aviary the editing.
Flickr treats your photos as a "stream," so everything you store on the service appears in temporal order. The Aviary editing component of the service also available as the excellent Aviary iPhone app offers a simple, clear interface for performing all the standard photo fixes—lighting, cropping, color, red-eye correction, and more.
It even adds a bunch of Instagram-like effect filters to spiff up your pictures. Picasa 3. The installed software works seamlessly with the online galleries, and the two can even be synced automatically. GIMP can automate tasks, accepts plugins, and works with layers of multiple effects.
It offers an elegant, easy way to import, organize, improve, and produce quality output from your digital photos. The app shares photos and albums easily to Facebook and Flickr, though you don't get Apple-hosted galleries. Windows Photo Gallery Improved editing tools, a unique people-tagging feature, and the ability to upload to Flickr and other services are welcome features. Its excellent panorama-stitching tool and surprisingly good online photo galleries on SkyDrive are other plusses for the recently name-shortened Windows Photo Gallery.
Fotoflexer Fotoflexer tries to combine web-based simplicity with layering and lots more visuals effects, but it's too complicated to be entry-level friendly, and not deep enough to please users familiar with pro-level tools. That said, it is free, and requires no installation. Pixlr Editor Not rated Pixlr Editor, from Autodesk, is a browser-based photo editor that includes a surprising number of Photoshop capabilities—layers, filters, gradients, and more—its interface even bears a striking resemblance to Photoshop's.
Michael cowrote one of the first overviews of Web Services pretty much the progenitor of Web 2. Most recently he covered Web 2. By Michael Muchmore July 4, , a. Top Picks. Best For Pro Photographers, Enthusiasts. Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom remains the gold standard in pro photo workflow software. It's a complete package, with top-notch organization tools, state of-the-art adjustments, and all the output and printing options you could want.
PROS Excellent photo management and organization Camera and lens-based corrections Brush and gradient adjustments with color and luminance masking Face detection and tagging Plug-in support Connected mobile apps CONS Initial raw conversion is slightly more detailed in some competing products Requires subscription. Best For Pro Photographers, Designers. The world's best image editing software adds mind-blowing neural filters, automatic sky replacement, and even better selection tools.
Apple's iPhoto is the go-to photo editor and organizer for Mac users, giving them the simplicity, image corrections, and output options they need. Picasa remains the free photo editor and organizer of choice, though the competition has nearly caught up.
Windows Photo Gallery easily handles the needs of Windows-using shutterbugs, with simple editing and sharing, face recognition, and other gee-whiz tools. Our Pick. Excellent 4. Adobe Lightroom Classic. Editors' Choice Outstanding 5. Adobe Photoshop. Apple iPhoto '11 Version 9.
Editors' Choice Excellent 4. A lot of them cost money. You can even encrypt 7-Zip archives with a password to send them securely. If you spend all day unzipping massive archive files then maybe a faster utility like WinZip is worth it.
For most of us, however, 7-zip is just great. Your PC might have a DVD-playing program installed if you bought a boxed system, but if not, the simply wonderful VLC media player can play your flicks and music, and podcasts, and… for free.
It can even play some Blu-ray discs with a little fiddling. You can, however, send the VideoLAN organization a donation as a thank you for its hard work. It has a challenging learning curve, but its capabilities are damned impressive once you wrap your head around it.
Check out our roundup of the best free Photoshop alternatives for more no-cost programs for everything from quick and dirty tweaks to nitty-gritty image edits. Free image editors are generally great and GIMP is looking better than ever. If you need to record or mix audio without spending big bucks on pro software, Audacity is hands-down the best option around. This powerful open-source audio editor offers excellent production capabilities—and a dizzying array of buttons and options.
Keep in mind, however, that Adobe Audition is a pro tool and not a starter option. Revo Uninstaller wipes out everything. Revo uninstaller only takes care of the basics. WinDirStat is another free program that behaves similarly to SpaceSniffer. But what if you want to bring a deleted file back to the realm of the living? Recuva is a clean, simple undelete program from Piriform, the makers of CCleaner. Still, Recuva has saved my bacon on more than one occasion.
If you need only basic functionality, go with Sumatra PDF instead. Sumatra lacks the fancy extras found in many full-featured PDF readers, but when it comes to straight-up reading Portable Document Format files, Sumatra PDF is blazing-fast and completely accurate. Active development means that this audio stalwart has recently seen a bunch of new features added, and there are more on the way.
VLC is brilliantly honest free software. That said, everything important is on board from the start—no codec packs required. It has the biggest library, the best interface, and its OGG-format files sound all but flawless, despite its lack of official high-res audio support. You could shell out for a subscription to use Adobe Illustrator, or you could download the highly mature and feature-filled Inkscape.
Good job, then, that Inkscape is so capable, with support for blurring, gradients, multi-path editing, and exporting in every format you could possibly need. Steam has changed what gaming really is on the PC. Keep an eye on the store to find regular free weekends of popular games, which get you unlimited access for a limited time.
Windows is, among its many other jobs, like a cut-price janitor. For the rest, you need something heavy, such as CCleaner, which can do away with registry artefacts, files left over after uninstalling, and much more. Using Dashlane does away with the fallibility of the human brain. Eraser ensures that those files you want well and truly removed are fully destroyed, using specially selected patterns of bytes over multiple passes to remove any digital memory of those files ever existing.
Probably the most common cause of malware infestation is inattention—clicking through a seemingly innocent installer, accidentally skipping past the page where it offers to install a brilliant browser toolbar, cursing yourself afterward. Selective, automatic, and easy.
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