Kodak EasyShare Software

Almost as easy to use as its name implies, Kodak EasySharesoftware provides consumer-level tools for organizing, sorting,editing, and using your photos in a variety of ways. Though it isdesigned specifically to work with Kodak cameras and printers (andis supplied with most Kodak hardware), anyone can download it at nocost and use it with any camera or printer.

Bringing your pictures into EasyShare isn’t as automatic as itis with similar programs, such as fellow freebie https://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,71287/description.html–unless you keep all your photos in a single folder.The problem is that EasyShare reorganizes your photos into albums,rather than simply using whatever folder organization you’vealready created. Rating and tagging photos is very simple, and thetags and star ratings you’ve created for your photos in otherprograms are automatically imported; however, unlike Windows LivePhoto Gallery, it doesn’t have face recognition tagging.

Kodak EasyShare’s photo editing is streamlined, covering themost common commands wanted by consumers, such as Red Eye, auto andmanual exposure correction, Facial Retouch, Fun Effects (such ascartoon and fisheye), Add Text, and so forth. These tools aren’tvery deep, but they make quick work of basic editing.

Output options are divided into five self-explanatory tabs:Print at Home, Email, Order Prints Online (from Kodak Gallery),Creative Projects, and EasyShare center. However, most of theCreative Projects templates are either 15-day trials of https://www.pcworld.com/downloads/search?qt=arcsoft programs or anopportunity to purchase photo novelties (such as coffee mugs) fromKodak Gallery. The EasyShare Center is a portal for getting help,finding tips and project how-tos, learning more about photoediting, and so forth. Buttons at the top of Home screen offerupload to YouTube, Facebook, and flickr, as well as KodakGallery.

Kodak EasyShare is one of the better free photo editors and asgood as some paid editors. It is a solid choice for consumers wholove to take, use, and share their photographs…but would rathernot spend any more time on their computers than absolutelynecessary for organizing, editing, uploading, or printing.

–Sally Wiener Grotta & Daniel Grotta