2. Programs
There are a ton of programs for photo editing
out there, each with prices ranging from $0 to
$10 to $700 and on.
This guide is designed for high school students,
so all of the programs that are discussed here
are free!

3. Picasa®
One of the best programs available for
organizing, simple editing, and viewing is
Picasa®, which is made by Google.

4. Picasa®
Other than a great organizational tool, Picasa® can
be used to fix photos with improper exposure, do
simple editing, and add some effects to your
photos. The two slides show a before and after of
a photo edited in this program.
The story: I was outside playing basketball when I saw some
interesting light on a tree behind the goal. I got my camera, took
the picture and continued to play basketball until the light was
gone. When I got inside and uploaded the photos, I found that the
photos were composed just fine, but the exposure was off by
several stops of light! Picasa® came to the rescue and saved my
photos with just a few clicks!

5. Before

6. After

7. Picasa®
Just by clicking the “I’m Feeling lucky” button in the
editing menu, Picasa® changed the lighting,
colors, and saturation in less than a second!
There are also manual options for editing light,
saturation, tint, and tons of other features. There
is also a built in version of “picnic”, a popular,
basic, user friendly online editing and
manipulation tool.
You can download this program by clicking on one
of these links
Windows (PC)- http://picasa.google.com/intl/en/
Mac- http://picasa.google.com/intl/en/mac/
Linux- http://picasa.google.com/intl/en/linux/

8. Gimp
Gimp is a program modeled after Adobe®
Photoshop, and is designed for heavy photo
editing, manipulation, and effects. This program
is not as user friendly as Picasa, but it gets a lot
more work done, has thousands more features,
and although it is a bit hard to use at first, with a
little practice and time, you can create some
beautiful work with this program.
The next slide is some examples of just a few things
that can be done with Gimp.

10. Gimp Downloading
Gimp can be downloaded at (Windows/PC) -
http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ Click on the
button that reads Download Gimp 2.6.11 (or
whatever the current version is)

11. Gimp Downloading (Mac)
For Mac Users you must first download a program that
will allow Gimp to open correctly which can be
downloaded at -
http://xquartz.macosforge.org/downloads/Leopard/X1
1-2.5.3.dmg (For Leopard - OSX users)
OR
http://xquartz.macosforge.org/downloads/SL/XQuartz-
2.5.3.dmg (For Snow Leopard - OSX users)
Then you can download Gimp itself at-
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimponosx/files/GIMP
%20Help/GIMP-2.6-User-Manual-en.zip/download

12. Download some programs, and have fun! Don’t
forget to check out the guides and tutorials for
these programs!