5 Free Photo Editing Software

Photographs are priceless for us. Through photos we can save the history of our past. So to make your photos more memorable you need to add some extra features to your photos But the question is arise here, How it can be done??......What can i do to add some more features in photographs ? Answer is here you need not to be worried, some software are available to make your picture more creative, memorable and precious.

Here below 5 best free photo editing software are describe:

1-Picasa: It is one of the best photo editing software which is freely available. It is user friendly that its instruction are very simple to understand for common people. Picasa provides facility to the users to edit and manage all their photos with effective tools including cropping, special effects, brightness adjustments and many more interesting features. The best thing in picasa is that you can create an online album and share. Picasa is compatible with Linux, Mac, Windows operating system.

2-Picnik: Picnik is one of the best software which is freely available for photo editing. It is very easy and convenient for users  By utilizing the features of Picnik you can improve the quality of your picture. It includes features like clarity, sharpness, color adjustment, etc. along with this it has some extra feature that helps you to make your picture interesting. This software is compatible with Linux, Mac, Windows operating system.

3- GIMP 2.7.3: GIMP is defined as the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is also freely available with advanced features of photo editing. It helps the user with image authoring, retouching, and composition. It is compatible with Amiga OS, Linux, Mac, Solaris, Windows operating systems and is available in many languages.

4-Ultimate Paint: Ultimate Paint the photo editing software which is available in both free version and paid version  It offers variety of features like convenient image creation, manipulation and display. Its process is very fast and easy, but it is compatible only with Windows operating system.

5- Photo Plus X5: It is also freely available photo editing software, includes variety of features like export optimizer, image slicing and image maps, selection tools, smart shapes, repair tool, editable text, third-party plug-in support, red-eye removal tool, and photo enhancement tools. It is compatible only with windows operating system.

But remember one thing with the installation of these software be careful about viruses. Some time it happens while downloading any software, viruses or spyware are attached with your computer which is harmful for your computer. These spyware and viruses make your computer slower and performance and speed of computer decreases. So, to make your computer virus free use computer maintenance tools and enjoy the features of software describe above.

Flash Drive: How to Format It

The steps to format a flash drive are as follows:

•  Connect the USB flash drive to your computer setup by plugging it into one of the USB port slots.

•  Wait for your computer to detect the flash drive.

You will see a pop-up bubble in the task bar at the bottom right of your screen to notify you that a flash drive has been installed to your computer successfully and is ready to use.

• Open the Start menu from the bottom-left of your screen and click on My Computer.

• Please right click on your flash drive that you have just installed on your computer.

It will come in the list of ‘devices with removable storage’.

•  Click on "Format" from the pop-up menu.

This will open the format window with window title indicating which drive you want to format.

•  You will see a window dialogue box, indicating the capacity of your flash drive.

• Tick the box next to ‘quick format’, if you want to check the flash drive hardware functioning properly and if not leave it unticked.

• Let the allocation unit size remain as the default allocation size.

• Select the file system that you want your flash drive formatted in. The file system attributes which will come are FAT32, NTFS, and exFAT.

• Press the Start button at the bottom of the Format window after you have finalized your selections.

• Confirm your action by pressing the OK button in the pop-up window.

These are the ways by which all your data will be deleted according to specification.

USB Flash Drive

In today's life almost all the work depends on computer but the term related to computer is not easily understandable to all except technical person. Here in this blog i describe one of computer related term Flash Drive.

It makes the work easier, one can easily carry their important data or files, easy to transfer and store videos, songs, pictures, software’s and so on. As it is rewriteable you can use it again and again. It is compatible with all operating system and really a gift to the mankind.

A USB flash drive is a data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface. USB flash drives are typically removable and rewritable, and physically much smaller than a floppy disk.USB flash drives are often used for the same purposes for which floppy computer disks or CD-ROMs were utilized, i.e., for storage, back-up and move of computer files. They are smaller, much quicker, have thousands of times more capability, and are more durable and dependable because they have no moving parts.

Formatting is needed when you completely want to remove all the data from your flash drive or to remove corrupt files from it. You can also format a flash drive to change the file storage system from FAT (File Allocation Table) to NTFS (New Technology File System) or vice versa in order to make the drive compatible with other devices such as digital cameras and music players.

Windows media player for media lovers

Once I have organized a date with my girlfriend in my house, it was pleasant winter season with sun’s rays coming slightly to my room, we were in romantic mood, and to increase it’s pace, I played a lovely romantic song on my laptop but what’s this bullshit, it’s playing the song in a horrible bass, crackled, distorted and with breakup sound, whole of our mood goes to a damn rotten, we just sit irritably and all our romantic mood comes to a shit. So guys if you don’t wants to go through this horrible situation, or your media player starts with crackled or break up sound go for a new one.
Windows media player is a good option for media lovers, its pleasant sound and new user friendly features makes it awesome for use. 
Features of windows media player are as follows:-

·Used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system.

·It also run on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile based devices.

·It includes the ability to rip music from and copy music to compact discs.

·Burn recordable discs in Audio CD format or as data discs with playlists such as an MP3 CD.

·Synchronize content with a digital audio player (MP3 player) or other mobile devices.

·Enable users to purchase or rent music from a number of online music stores.

·Core playback and library functions.

·While playing music, Windows Media Player can show visualization.

·The player includes intrinsic support for Windows Media codec’s and also WAV and MP3 media formats.

·Enhanced playback features.

Windows media player 12 is the latest version for media lovers included in windows 7 and windows 8 operating system. It plays more music and videos, including flip videos, unprotected songs etc. Here you can easily organize your digital media collection, can synchronize your digital media file to a portable device, and can go for online shopping of digital media content and much more. It also has streamlined playback modes. It supports many popular audio and video formats which gives us freedom to enjoy different music or watch video of our own choice.
As it’s the application of Microsoft windows, so you can easily update it to the new versions coming up in the market. You can easily troubleshoot the problems related with windows media player 
Steps to troubleshoot windows media player are as follows
·Type msdt.exe –id WindowsMediaPlayerConfigurationDiagnostic in Start Search and hit Enter to open the troubleshooting wizard which will help you reset WMP to default settings.

·Type msdt.exe -id WindowsMediaPlayerLibraryDiagnostic in Start Search and hit Enter to open the troubleshooting wizard which will help make Media files show up in WMP library.

·Type msdt.exe -id WindowsMediaPlayerDVDDiagnostic in Start Search and hit Enter to open the troubleshooting wizard which will help trouble-shoot DVD playing problems.

These are the steps through which we can easily troubleshoot and fix the problems related with this player.