15 Great Media Managers To Organize Your Photo Albums & Carry Out Basic Editing
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 8:54 PM
If our list of Top 11 Free Online Image Editing Tools left you wanting more, here is a list of 15 great softwares that will help you manage your photos with ease!
CompuPic Pro
Introducing CompuPic Pro, the fastest, most powerful digital-content manager available. It has support for keywording, searching, Favorites, and EXIF, plus full file management, making organizing your photos a snap. The fully integrated viewer instantly opens almost any file and provides amazing quality and instant zooming. Apply image effects and eye-catching borders, or enhance your photos using precision adjustments such as color, cropping, resizing, and rotating. Use the Advanced Batch Conversions to quickly convert or modify thousands of photos. Share your photos with integrated photo e-mailing, the Web page gallery generator, or by uploading to your favorite photo-sharing Web site. Create picture CDs right from your desktop, and view stunning slide shows featuring more than 140 high-quality transition effects. Full JPEG 2000 support, the all-new Border function, more than a dozen image effects, more than 25 new slide-show transitions, improved cropping and resizing, an integrated address book for e-mailing photos, and dozens of new supported file types.
VSO Image Resizer
The VSO free image resize software organizes your photos by changing their resolution or moving them within your hard drive. VSO Image resizer is the perfect tool for those who store their digital pictures and images on their PC and who want to resize, compress, convert, create copies, create thumbnails, import or organize photos
PicPerk
PicPerk is an image viewer and editor that supports most common graphic formats, including JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, PCX, WMF, and TGA. The application enables you to open a specific image file and also enables you to open a folder and easily view and edit any image included in it. Along with the usual assortment of file operations, such as convert, copy, move, rename, delete, and print, PicPerk features thumbnails and full-screen viewing, zoom functions, and 33 image-editing effects, including crop, resize, and red-eye removal. In addition, PicPerk features tools to display slide shows, to set and remove the desktop wallpaper, and to associate file types with it.
3D Photo Browser
3D Photo Browser is a file explorer that makes viewing, editing, and organizing your 3D files (Max, Maya, Lightwave), images (+60 formats supported), videos and audio files easier. It displays large thumbnails in a highly customizable window. It offers a complete image/video editor and a 3D OpenGL textured viewer. 3D Photo Browser includes zip browsing and multi-folders view. Depending on the running version it includes advanced tools such: batch processing, image and 3d file conversions, complete screen capture, contact sheet printing, HTML exportation, file documentation and advanced search based on criteria, independent slides show creation, 3D interactive and batchable scenes optimization (polygon reduction), MP3 tags edition, animated GIF and AVI creation and many other features which grow every day thanks to the regular updates.
Webshots Desktop
Webshots Desktop is a free photo- and video-management application that combines tools for managing and sharing your own personal photos and videos with wallpaper and screensaver functionality. The latest version lets you easily organize and upload all your photos and videos right from your desktop. Now you can drag and drop photos to Webshots from Windows, search your Webshots collection and update your albums in a flash. You can also download the optional Webshots Toolbar for Internet Explorer. The Webshots Toolbar lets you search Webshots or the web from your browser window, upload photos and videos, access your member homepage with one click and for fun, you can highlight any word on the web and search its photo and video results. As a member of Webshots, you can browse one of the web's largest photo- and video-sharing communities and use the web's best search to find amazing images and videos. Only Webshots enables its members to share photos and videos together with their family and friends through online albums, member homepages, mobile uploads and custom prints and gifts.
VisiPics
VisiPics does more than look for identical files. It applies five image comparison filters in order to measure how close pairs of images on the hard drive are. It will detect two different resolution files of the same picture as a duplicate, or the same picture saved in different formats, or duplicates where only minor cosmetic changes have taken place. All detected duplicates are shown side by side with pertinent information like file name, type and size displayed. Uses Hyperthreading or Multi-processors systems. Highly efficient results with adjustable similarity levels. Easy to use interface, preview your duplicates easily and pick the ones to delete with a simple click. Starts to display the results while scanning, you don't have to wait to delete your duplicates.
Nero Photoshow
Nero PhotoShow Deluxe 5 is everything you need to bring your photos to life. It has easy to use interface and tools. You can create fantastic PhotoShows with music, captions and effects - 88 One Click Styles help you tell your story (over 200 clip art to choose from). Burn PhotoShows onto DVDs to watch on TV. The product comes with one year free subscription to your own personal web page to share your PhotoShows with family and friends. Includes video clip editing and sharing features - 50% more music from great artists (over 400 songs). Windows Vista ready. Burn DVDs of PhotoShows to watch on most DVD players. Archive photos on CDs.
Image Dupeless
The program is intended for searching/finding similar images (duplicates) in large collections. The comparison is based on the contents of images, not depending on their sizes, formats, and resolutions. There are advanced opportunities of cataloging the galleries available on CDs and of further off-line work with them. Main features: stored thumbnails, compare a gallery with new images without its rescanning, work with descriptions, import/export, store results of search of duplicates, the user-defined list of unlike images. The supported graphic file formats are JPEG, GIF, BMP, PCX, PNG, TIFF, PGM, WMF, EMF, EPS, PSD, ICO. The program supports merging of image series and working with descriptions of available images from the file "description".
Picasa
Transfer, find, organize, edit, print, and share images, all with this easy-to-use product. Watch Picasa automatically organize all your pictures into elegant albums by date. Having all your photos in one place means no more time wasted searching for folders or files. The program works with JPEG, GIF, BMP, PSD, and movie files and is compatible with most digital cameras; it detects your USB driver and imports pictures into albums. Editing tools include cropping (standard or custom), removal of red-eye, and enhancing--even switching from color to black and white. Create slide shows set to your MP3s. Integration with Picasa's free Hello instant picture-sharing software lets you share hundreds of photos in seconds and chat in real time. E-mail photos with Picasa's built-in client to take the guesswork out of compressing images, and order photo-lab quality prints or print at home with no mistakes. You can also make instant backups to CD (or to other hard drives) of your photo collections, to organize your photos using labels and stars (just like with Gmail), to write captions for all pictures, and to organize videos as well as pictures.
Roxio MediaTicker
MediaTicker is a fun, scrolling ticker that delivers your local digital photos and remote RSS feeds directly onto your desktop. Unlike other newsreaders, MediaTicker gives you a visual perspective on your RSS feeds by displaying content in both text and thumbnail image format. Now you can add the latest news, sports, headlines, cartoons and photos from almost any site to your MediaTicker. Web sites like Flickr, Yahoo News Photos, and MSNBC provide RSS feeds of images and thumbnail images with links. Add your own photos to flickr.com then tell your family and friends to get MediaTicker to stay up to date with all your latest photos automatically.
PicaJet FX
PicaJet offers direct import from your camera, image sharing via e-mail or Web gallery, automatic photo enhancement, personal ratings and categories, as well as printing features. The photo organizer allows you to view your images by rating, keyword, date, or timeline and you can categorize your images by simple drag and drop. In addition, it offers convenient editing features to correct red-eye, cropping, image sharpening, and level adjustment. Additional features include direct CD/DVD burning, an image search engine with support for EXIF/IPTC/XMP data, slideshow maker, and a tool to generate a Web gallery from templates.
BatchPhoto
BatchPhoto is a powerful photo manipulation program that makes it easy to touch-up, annotate, transform, apply effects, and rename hundreds of photos in a single operation. Instead of enhancing and adjusting pictures individually, BatchPhoto lets you select a group of pictures, define a series of edits, and apply them in a single operation. Here are some of BatchPhoto's features: Touch-up: adjust brightness, sharpness, colors, and reduce noise. Annotate: add comments, date & time, text watermarks, and image watermarks. Transform: resize photos, rotate, crop, and create thumbnails. Effects: sepia, black and white, charcoal sketch, oil paint, shade, and swirl. Rename photos with meaningful names. Convert photos from one image format to another (more than 100 image formats supported.
iBrowser
iBrowser is free but powerful image and thumbnail viewer and browser allowing to preview folders with a large number of images. You can change look and feel of the program and save your interface layout. 14 language localizations and power features make iBrowser the best choice for every day use. Among these features are customable interface layouts, advanced memory management, slideshow, format defining by signature, full screen view, animated images autoplay, copying to clipboard, intelligent large files support, set as wallpaper function, windows shell extension. All popular graphic formats are supported - jpeg/jpg/jpeg-2000/exif, tiff/tif, gif, pic, dxf, tga, pcx, icon. iBrowser is an ad-supported freeware. No third party adware components are used. iBrowser doesn't collect or transfer any information about the user.
iView Media Pro
MediaPro is a digital asset management and cataloging solution essential for photographers and other creative professionals. It enables you to create a customized, centralized and searchable repository through which you can manage a wide variety and high volume of digital files. MediaPro supports more than 100 different file formats including images, audio, video, fonts, illustrations, DTP, HTML and digital camera RAW files (including DNG, Nikon, Canon, and Kodak). Pro photographers and other creative professionals using MediaPro can quickly and easily import, annotate, organize, archive, search and distribute their digital files, shortening time from capture to distribution, thereby saving time and lowering costs.
FreshView
This free software helps you organize and view multimedia files (images, audio, and video). It gives you the ability to watch movies, listen to music, and view graphics in a slide show. Image files in a folder can be displayed using a number of views, including a thumbnail view that lets you quickly see what your images are without having to open them. You can convert graphics from one type to another, print, and create HTML albums. This easy-to-use software supports 86 multimedia formats, including JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, PSD, Photo CD, TGA, MP3, MIDI, MOD, AVI, and MPEG. The latest version features external-editor-program support.
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