[ Thanks to James
Maguire for this link. ]
“Not only are people taking a lot of photos — they’re sharing a
lot of photos. Facebook’s photo library includes more than 140
billion photos, half of which were uploaded in 2011. Users uploaded
an additional 8 billion pictures to Photobucket and 5 billion to
Flickr.“With so many digital images flying around, amateur
photographers have more interest than ever in tools to help them
create, edit, organize and share those images. Unfortunately, some
of the best known software for dealing with photos and graphics
retails for hundreds or even thousands of dollars.“The open source community has responded with dozens of free
applications whose capabilities rival or even exceed those of their
closed source counterparts. Below, you’ll find 55 noteworthy
choices. As always, feel free to add any we might have missed to
the comments section below.”