Techno Teacher

Adobe Photoshop is a photo editing program that is currently the most widely used. Though there are many versions of Photoshop, Photoshop Elements is the one that is most prevalent to teachers. First of all, it’s about a quarter in price as other versions of Photoshop, so if your school has a photoshop program, this will probably be the version they have. It also has simpler tools and technology that will allow you to make edits to photos easily. Photoshop Elements is still a very powerful program and has lot’s of great features. As teachers, you probably won’t need all of the features included on the other versions of Photoshop so using elements will probably be the best.

If you’re not sure if you want to get Photoshop elements, you can download a free 30 day trial at

http://tryit.adobe.com/us/photoshopelements/?sdid=EPZMU

This will let you have the full version of Photoshop Elements for free.

If you find you don’t want to buy Photoshop, there are other photo editing options. The following is a top 5 list of free photo editing sites and where you can download them.

1. GIMP http://www.gimp.org/

2. Picasa  http://picasa.google.com/

3. Paint.net  http://www.getpaint.net/

4. Photofiltre  http://www.photofiltre-studio.com/

5. Picnik  http://www.picnik.com/

Whether you use photoshop or one of these other photo editing sites, you can make quality photo projects that you will be able to use in your classroom.