Vox Lucens

With all the photography stuff I’ve been doing lately, I’ve done a ton of online searching for free tools to do things I need done. If you’ve ever tried that, you know that there are about a million “free” options that don’t give you what they promise–a demo, perhaps, or a limited version, or just plain nothing, in a few rather blatant instances of false advertising.

But you search far enough, and you will probably find what you need! At least, that has been my experience. Here are the tools I’ve found to be very helpful–and do exactly what they promise.

• Visualizer Photo Resize. You ever had to e-mail a ton of photos–each of which is a huge file? This handy little program will batch resize them, without altering your originals, and save the resized versions in the directory you indicate. E-mail away!
• Lupas Rename 2000. All cameras have naming protocols. My D40 saves everything as “DSC_[number].” It is possible to change the naming protocol, but that’s a pain. This tool will allow you to take a whole directory and rename it according to the protocols you choose.
• Picture Shark 1.0. I’ve been thinking about watermarking my online pictures for quite some time. It’s not complete protection from photo theft, but it helps. And this program works admirably, with a little fiddling, giving the results you can now see on my online pictures.

Anyone have other suggestions on freeware?

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