Do you do digital photography? What software do you use to download, edit, and store your digital photos?
I’ve been very slow coming into the digital age. Mostly, since our kids have grown and left home, my wife and I don’t take anywhere near the number of photos we did when the two kids were tiny.
Way back then (1970s), a 35mm film camera with slide film in it was our weapon of choice. For awhile, I went through the Polaroid “instant picture” craze — but I soon discovered Polaroids faded and didn’t age all that well. The older the kids got, the less we traveled anywhere as a family and the less I could be persuaded to load film in the camera and take pictures.
Then a year or so ago, after some particularly disasterous family Christmas pictures, my wife and the kids finally persuaded me to buy a decent digital camera. Nothing fancy at all, and probably well behind the latest digital technology — but fun and useful nevertheless.
But the really fun thing was that I bought an SD card for the camera to store digital photos on, extending radically the number of photos we can get between downloads. For a guy who thought 36 slides per roll of 33mm film was spectacular — imagine how I feel when I think that the SD card in this digital camera will allow me to take MORE THAN 900 photos before I have to download them to my computer. Why, we made a trip across the country to visit a couple of brothers I don’t see but every few years. Brought all the photos back on the SD card without a single download, and never came close to capacity!
Okay, some of us are more easily entertained than others.
What do you use to download digital photos to your computer, to edit the photos, and perhaps to organize and store them on your hard drive? I hated the over-bloated freeware that came from the camera manufacturer. I’m generally confused trying to use “Picasa,” the highly touted free imaging software from Google. What do you use? Any recommendations?
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