THESE DAYS, pretty much everyone is an amateur pho¬tographer. But high-end photo-editing tools aren't the best choice for everyone. Two free downloads can make digital photography a lot more fun-and a lot more productive-without taking shots at your wallet.

Image Resizer
Need a quick-and-dirty way to resize a group of photo¬graphs? Get this free, excep¬tionally easy-to-use Power¬Toy from Microsoft (pcworld. in/downloads/index.jsp). Rightclick a single photograph or a group of photos, and se¬lect Resize Pictures; a dialog box will appear, inviting you to resize the images to any of four possible sizes: Small (640 by 480 pixels), Medium (800 by 600 pixels), Large (1024 by 768 pixels), or Handheld PC (240 by 320 pixels). When you make your selection and click OK, it will create copies of your pictures in the new size while leaving the originals intact. By clicking the Adoanced button before clicking OK, you can elect to resize the original pictures instead of making a copy.
Note: You can make pictures smaller, but not larger; if you choose a size bigger than the original, the program simply won't obey.

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Photoscape
Photos cape (included on previous month DVD) is a remark¬able free software that any self-respecting digital photographer will want on his or her Pc. This program comes with a file viewer, a photo editor, a slide show creator, a batch editor, a screen-capture program, and much more. It also has some original tools, such as one that combines multiple photos in a single frame. Anoth¬er convenient tool takes photos that are in the RAW format used by many digital cameras and converts them to JPG format, so they'll work with more applications.