Half the fun and half of the work in taking digital pictures is getting to/having to edit them on the computer. Usually it's not a big deal to go through and enhance or crop a handful of pictures but, when you come back to the computer with 300 or 400 pictures, it's a bit more work.
Most professional photographers use Adobe Photoshop software to edit and Adobe Lightbox to manage their pictures. But, if you don't want to invest $700 in software and a good portion of your life to learn how to use it, you can do many of the same things by using a free program called Picasa. Google purchased Picasa a couple of years ago so you know that it's a decent program. You can get it here - Picasa.
Picasa literally does it all - or at least the really important stuff. You can crop, enhance color, lighten, remove dust or ufo's in your photos. You can make black and white photos, add soft focus or straighten your pictures. And, when you're done, Picasa makes it easy to email or upload your photos to a free web site to show off. It also keeps track of where you put your photos on your computer so you only have to look at it's library to see all your photos - no matter what folder you put them in on your computer.
While Picasa is very good, it's not Photoshop. It isn't able to delete your goofy cousin from that nice group shot. But then again for most people, it does the important stuff...and the price is right. If you lose track of your pictures on your computer or need to back them up (everyone backs up their pictures, right?), Google's Picasa is a definate download.
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