

Usable on both mobile and desktop to create and edit a variety of visual content for websites, social media, presentations, and more, Canva comes in either a free or paid subscription. Canva: Your One-Stop Shop(Regardless of Your Tech Know-How) Our go-to recommendation for clients? Canva. Between the time spent determining exact dimensions, picking the right file type for their needs, and getting it to look how they envisioned for their site, they’re ready to throw their hands up in defeat. Many of our web design clients here at PlusROI list resizing and optimizing images as one of their top five pain points.

Picasa makes modifications as a script, leaving the original image file unscathed, and when exporting a copy, leaves the "master" in the same folder tree where it always was, making drag and drop backups and restoring easy and reliable.Īlong with Picasa - great for printing - I also use free IrfanView for many tasks, like resizing, cropping, cutting and pasting into combination pictures, lossless JPG rotation and cropping, and batch tasks, including renaming, and filtering to black-and-white copies.To quickly and efficiently resize and optimize images is a keystone of any successful website update (or launch!), regardless of your industry. Unlike free Google Picasa, free Windows Live Photo Gallery makes copies of any image touched and moves and renames the original out of the user's access. Then I have an all-purpose, well-identified library for all time that any program, especially Windows Explorer, can access and browse, and backups are easy, smartly adding only new files to external USB drive archive similarly organized for all time - hey, it's all library science, right? " and so on to "myname-date-1234.Raw myname-date-1235.Raw. Then I use free (one for all) Rename for basic group renaming, taking a series of picture files like "PICT1234.Raw PICT1235.Raw.

Then I use Picasa to expand the directory name to C:\DCIM\MyName Date Count Camera Location Description\*.* I use Picasa to import images from my camera card into c:\DCIM\Date\*.*
