Software

• Image Editing
  

  Image editing for free.

  If you read our "Be Image Ready" guide, you may be looking for ways to edit your images which don't involve shelling out hundreds of pounds on commercial software.

  We all need to do a 'little' editing at times. Most of these services are websites which allow you to upload your image, edit it online and then download the results back to your computer. Clearly, you need a broadband connection for this, but it does mean you can edit your images from any computer, not just in your studio. It also means it works on any computer with any operating system, so Mac and PC work fine.

  There are also free editing programmes you can download to your computer which are well worth a look.

  

• Writing
  

  We all do it - use a word processor - and it is probably Microsoft Word. There is every chance that some ‘flavour’ of this ubiquitous program came free with your PC, but this is becoming less common as manufacturers cut their equipment prices by trimming down on the extras.
  
  You may well end up having to BUY a copy of Word and this will probably set you back quite a bit if you buy the full, commercial, version. But there are free alternatives which work just fine. Take a look.