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Travel Photography Links - Useful Programs for the Travel Photographer

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EditPad Pro	Everyone needs a general purpose text-handling program, especially when you are working with database information or collecting lists of photo keywords and descriptions. My favourite is EditPad Pro - an amazingly useful program idealy suited for the purpose. I especially like its Block mode, its brilliant search-and-replace abilities, its fill and sort, plus a built in dictionary. I use the paid-for version with its full facilities - check out the EditPad Pro Demo (5.9 MB), but there is also an EditPad Lite version for free, to whet your appetite.
CSVed	Here is an astonishingly good program for anyone who needs to create or edit CSV(Comma Separated Variable) files. If you have downloaded my Photographer World Database then this means you. It deserves a huge 10 out of 10. The features and abilities of this program are too numerous to mention, so download a copy today and check it out for yourself.
WinMerge	WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle. WinMerge is highly useful for determining what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions. WinMerge can be used as an external differencing/merging tool or as a standalone application. In addition, WinMerge has many helpful supporting features that make comparing, synchronising, and merging as easy and useful as possible. Several programming languages and other file formats are syntax-highlighted.
EXIFtool	EXIFtool is the program for every photographer who needs to examine or alter the contents of the EXIF tags in each of their photographs. Although rather complicated to use, it is extremely versatile, as shown in my tutorials 'How to get a list of photo sizes' and How to Create List of EXIF and IPTC Tag Values.
IrfanView	IrfanView is an excellent image viewer that I use as my standard way to inspect any image on my hard-drive. It is quick and easy, with many facilities. It also has the best batch mode for image processing, with many available actions such as resize to longest size, rename, sharpen, tint, add watermark. to name just a few. It is free to download, though you can contribute if you think you value it highly: I certainly did.
Neat Image	Need a program for Noise Reduction? We all do, and that program needs to be pretty good at what it does. Neat Image is - its so good that I have a tutorial all about it. I'd recommend that you check out Neat Image straight away.
Photomatix	These guys are the ones to see when you start to try HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography. The Photomatix program does a great job processing your range of bracketed exposures. It can even make HDR images from one RAW image, utilising the extra image information that we normally don't use.
RoboGeo	I spend quite a bit of time geo-referencing photographs - according to Lonely Planet Images, its 'the new black' for stock photo meta data. Its therefore crucial to use a progam that does the best job, and provides all of the facilities that you need. RoboGeo is the one for me - its so good that I've written quite a few articles about it! (1) (2) (3)