Now the good bit – programs I use for photography post processing

Photo Time Stamp

Instead of IMG_00034.JPG have all your photos named with the date and time you took the picture.  Stamp will rename all your photos in a folder based on the EXIF time.  Nowadays I use the Canon software to do this directly on download, but if you have a ton of old pics then this will rename them for you.

Get it here:

http://www.klingebiel.com/tempest/hd/stamp.php4

Photomatix Basic HDR

Make HDR images.  The Basic edition is free, and does a good enough job.  If you’re going to use it, read the tutorials.

Get it here:

http://www.hdrsoft.com/download.html  (scroll down to the Basic edition)

Picasa

Organise and edit your photos, then upload them to a free album hosted by Google.  You’ve seen Picasa already, and if you aren’t managing your photos here already, then I can only assume you’re using something more heavy-weight.

Get it here:

http://picasa.google.com/

Resizer

Batch resize all the images in a folder.  Sure you could possibly use the Resizer PowerToy from MS, but this one has more options and doesn’t need to be installed, so you can run it from your USB flash drive.

Get it here:

http://www.at32.com/doc/resizer.htm