Manage, edit and enhance your digital photographs with our Windows photo software tutorials

The digital camera has changed how we take and work with photographs. Now instead of being restricted to rolls of film and trips to the developers, modern home photographers snap away to their hearts content with their digital cameras and even their phones. What's more, digital photographs can easily be transferred to the computer, where they can be copied, printed, manipulated and shared with friends all around the world.

In this section of our site, we'll show you some of the best and most popular Windows photo software. Even complete novices can quickly learn how to enhance and share their favourite photographs thanks to the powerful and fun free software and services we'll be covering on these pages.

The Windows Photo Gallery comes free with Windows Vista. It is a handy tool for organising your photos but it has been superseded by the Windows Live Photo Gallery. Marc Liron takes us on a tour of the Windows Photo Gallery in the tutorial below. Since the functions he discusses are virtually identical for Windows Live Photo Gallery, this video is a good introduction to Live Photo Gallery too.

Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 is now available as a free download from Microsoft. This latest version makes photo editing and enhancing easier than ever! Find out how to use this fun and powerful utility in the tutorials below:-

Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 is not compatible with Windows XP. XP users can still use the older version of Photo Gallery however.

Google Picasa is a popular alternative to the Windows Photo Gallery that boasts some impressive features of its own including an enhanced image viewer and support for sharing your photos all over the web. Find out how to use this fantastic free utility in the tutorials below:-