The best quality commercial software can cost hundreds and even thousands of dollars. If you can’t afford this expensive software, you can often find free open source software with the same features for free

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Google’s Picasa is an easy-to-use yet powerful free image editor.

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How to Resize Photos in Picasa

GIMP is one of the best programs for creating a transparent background behind an image.

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Save Images with Transparency in GIMP

When you connect a new Zune device the first time, you are asked to setup your sync settings. This includes music, video, pictures and podcasts. If you have a large collection, you may not want to automatically sync your collection each time you connect a device

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Adjust Zune Sync Settings

Windows Live Photos is one of the options available to users when they long in to Windows Live, along with SkyDrive, Office, Messenger, Hotmail and MSN; it is in essence, a repository for photographs and images, and works very much like other photo hosting sites Windows Live Gallery 2011 on the other hand, is a free photo/video editing program with links to SkyDrive and other sites. To get it, go to Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 ,  and download it. Once you have it downloaded and running, you should notice the now familiar Microsoft ribbon that has been incorporated throughout Microsoft’s suite of applications, it looks like this: If it looks familiar to you, that’s because this is the program that is actually running on Microsoft’s “cloud” television commercial.

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Use Windows Live Photos with Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011