This is TJ. In this video I'm going to quickly be going over five programs that are great tools for working with digital images on your computer and specifically for working with digital photography. These programs are GIMP, UF RAW, DigiCam, PhotoRack and Green Shot. And all of these programs are completely free to download and use for both personal and commercial use. They are also all open source software and they will all work on Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems with the exception of Green Shot, which is a Windows only program for the time being. If you want to download these and try them out for yourself, you can find links at my website, TJ3.com. Let's take a look at this first program, GIMP. This is a program very, very similar to Adobe Photoshop. It's going to have all the same features and tools and effects that Photoshop has. It's a very, very competitive program. You can use it to create some very professional work. If you're not familiar with it, you need to get with the program. It's a good one. Let's see here. If you're familiar with Photoshop, give it a similar control over the photo that it would do as far as colors and photo enhancing and repair and different things like that. You can also use it to create art, draw it from a blank canvas. So, yeah, it has lots of extendability too. You can get plugins and different extensions for it. This next program, UF RAW, coincidentally, is also can be an extension to GIMP. You can use it as a plugin. It's a program that lets you view images in their RAW format, like they would be like art taken from a digital camera. This is one that was taken, I took this morning, actually, of this mousse. I can change this, this is called temperature. I'll be honest, I don't know a lot about working with RAW photographs, but this program gives you a lot of control over what you can do with these RAW photographs. You can change the lighting, the colors, the exposure. You can actually tell it what type of camera was used. I'll do that here. Well, actually, it doesn't even support my camera, but you can say what kind of camera was used. You can tell it what kind of lens was used. It will let you make adjustments to the focal length and the distance you were away from the object and things. It's a great tool for cheating on your photography and touching it up after the fact. It gives you a lot more control than working with a JPEG or PNG image. This next program did you can also will let you work with RAW images. It's a program that's very similar to Adobe Lightroom. It's a photo management program and lets you do some editing and tweaking as well. You can tag, like you can do geo tags on your pictures. You can do, like it has a facial recognition engine. You can tag different people in your pictures. I'm going to show you, let me show you real quick. You can open up a, if we go here, we can edit this picture and apply different effects and things, just like we can with using different, but sort of a different layout and features. Let me show you here, these are all images of a RAW image format from my digital camera. This is the CR2 extension, which actually doesn't work with this program. I showed you UF RAW, but you can use this program DigiCam to convert it into a DNG format, which UF RAW can use. It's kind of a way to get around that if you're a DNG converter is built into here as well. Lots of more things, I'm, features I'm skipping over in all of these programs, just because this is a quick video to peak your interest in these software programs. This next one PhotoRek is a tool for underleading, well pictures and it also does videos, what's that here? One sec here. This is a command line only program, so there's no user, graphical user interface, and for example, I forgot what I was going to do here for you. But I have this SD card, messed up my whole video now. I got to plug in this SD card and I'll open it up for you and show you. I already ran this program, it took about five minutes to uncover these files on my SD card, but I have a one gigabyte SD card. It currently has these five pictures on it, and about ten minutes ago I ran this program PhotoRek. When it was done, it took about five minutes, it discovered all of these pictures which had been deleted. They're not currently on this card, but it found them and restored them some pictures, a few document files, and several video files. So, recovered all these, and they actually weren't lost to me because I deleted them intentionally, I had them backed up other places. But it's cool, and then I can click on them and they're actually completely restored photos, it saved them to a place on my hard drive. So, that's how PhotoRek works, it undiletes pictures, or pictures that have been deleted off of USB drives, SD cards, or even off of your hard drive, it can recover them. There's tutorials online, maybe I'll even include them on my website, TJFree.com, on how to use this program. This last one I want to show you is green shot, and it's kind of a stretch to call it a photography tool, but what it does, it takes a photograph of your desktop. So, for example, let me pull up, this is a picture of what it looked like when I finished using this program, PhotoRek. And so, if I push the print screen button, usually that'll just print it'll copy a picture of the entire screen, but if I push it once green shot is installed, I can then select an area that I want to specifically cut out, and then it cuts, it'll just copy, oops, if you can see that all. It just copies just that window that I wanted, and it also has a feature that lets you select, if you're selecting a window like I just was, you can just go to the green shot program, and say, Caps for Window, then I can just click on this window. Well, this feature is not working very well because I'm doing CAM Studio, I kind of messed it up, I've got my screen recorder here. Anyway, that screen shot has lots of other tools, it puts a lot more functionality into your print screen button. Well, those are the programs I wanted to show you, thanks for watching. Check out my other videos, I do some on 2D and 3D animation, video editing, just graphic design tools, web design tools, so if you're interested in what I showed you today, you might want to watch my other videos. And check out my website, TJFree.com, I'd appreciate it, and have a nice day.