Free Photo Editing Software for Windows

• Adobe Photoshop Express

• Affinity ( formerly Serif Affinity Photo, now owned by Canva )

• Canva

• GIMP 

• Microsoft Paint 3D 

• paint.net

• Photopea

• Pixelitor

• POV-Ray Photo-realistic Ray Tracer 

• XnView

Not-So-Free Photo Editing Software for Windows

• Adobe Photoshop Elements 

• Corel PaintShop Pro 

• ON1 Photo Raw 

Useful Phone Apps

• Photomyne Picture Scan App by Photomyne ( scan multiple photos at once into a digital album )

• Prisma Art Effect Photo Editor by Prisma Labs ( turn photos into artwork )

• Snapseed by Google ( high quality photo editing )

• TouchRetouch by ADVA Soft ( removing unwanted objects such as wire fences )

( Install these from your phone app store )

Useful Resources

• Canva Colour Wheel 

• Digital Photography Review 

• PetaPixel 

• Wikipedia DSLR 

• Photo Contest Creator by pollunit 

A.I. and Image Generation

• Artlist

• ChatGPT 

• Claude

• DALL-E 2 

• DALL-E 3

• DeepSeek

• DeeVid AI

• Flow by Google Labs

• Google Gemini

• Grok

• Kling 

• Leonardo 

• LumeFlow AI

• Microsoft Copilot

• Microsoft Designer 

• Midjourney

• Mistral AI

• OpenArt 

• Perplexity

• Pika AI

• Pollo AI

• Runway

• Seedance

• Stable Diffusion

• Suno ( for song creation )

( Artificial Intelligence for photography is a rapidly changing field. Links come, links go. )

A.I. Artwork

• Kelly Boesch

Photo Sharing Sites

• 500px 

• Amazon Photos 

• flickr

• Google Photos 

• Photobucket 

• SmugMug  

Photo Transferring Sites

Used to send large photo attachments to an email address

• WeTransfer

• Dropbox ( sender needs an account )

Photo Challenges

• The Daily Photohunt on Facebook

• u3a Eye organised by the u3a

Photography Hall of Fame

Landscape

• Ansel Adams 

• O. Winston Link 

Portrait

• Annie Liebovitz 

• Cecil Beaton 

• Lord Snowdon 

• Robert Mapplethorpe 

Art

• Alfred Stieglitz 

• Man Ray

Documentary / Street / War

• Abbas Attar 

• Brassaï

• Don McCullin

• Henri Cartier-Bresson 

• James Nachtwey

• Lee Miller

• Martin Parr 

• Robert Doisneau 

• Saul Leiter 

Wildlife Photography

• Gordon Buchanan 

Archive

• Francis Frith 

Professional Stock Photo Archives

• Alamy 

• iStock 

• Getty Images 

• Magnum 

• Reuters 

• Shutterstock 

• The Associated Press 

Photographic Museums

• ICP New York 

• National Science and Media Museum (formerly The Bradford National Museum of Photography, Film & Television ) 

Photo Printing

• cewe

• digitalprinting

• DS Colour Labs

• instantprint

• SwiftprintUK

Giclée Photo Printing

• theprintspace 

Photo Books

• bonusprint - now part of Photobox

• Jessops

• Photobox 

• Snapfish

• VistaPrint 

Magazines

• Amateur Photographer 

Other Photographic Clubs

• Nantwich Camera Club 

Other u3a's in our region

• Chester ( has photography group )

• Crewe & Nantwich  ( has photography group )

• Frodsham  ( has photography group )

• Knutsford 

• Middlewich 

• Northwich 

• Sandbach  ( has photography group )

• West Cheshire Rural 

• Winsford  ( has photography group )

Lens Manufacturers

• Sigma

• Tamron

Camera Manufacturers

• Canon

• Fujifilm

• GoPro

• Nikon

• OM System ( Olympus )

• Panasonic Lumix

• Pentax

• Praktica

• Ricoh

• Sigma

• Sony

High-End Cameras / Medium Format

• Hasselblad

• Leica

• Mamiya

• PhaseOne

• Red

• Rolleiflex