Photo Organizers

Picasa is a powerful, yet easy to use and attractive tools suite to manage and organize your digital images and photos. It offers one simple place to organize, enjoy, and share your pictures. After installing, the software can automatically scan your drive(s) for images and intelligently sort them into photo albums, ready for you to customize and organize. It offers different interface layouts and ways to view your pictures, including slideshow and a unique timeline feature. Picasa supports import from twain devices, including digital cameras, photo emailing, printing and much more. A great, all-around imaging tool! Now with Picasa Web Albums, this allows you to upload free image galleries, hosted by Google.

DigiBookShelf enables you to display and manage photos in a virtual album, using a virtual bookshelf interface. The photos are displayed as thumbnails and you can add text and sound comments to each image. When you click on a thumbnail, you can view the image in actual size. The program is very easy to use and comes with a unique interface that allows simple drag and drop to create new albums. DigiBookShelf can be used like a real-life photo album, complete with flipping pages that are enhanced with sound effects. You can customize the look of your photo album collection, select from different page layouts, design the look and feel of each album, import from your memory card and more. There are also commercial version available with additional features (image editing, CD output etc.) but the free version will work just fine, if you are looking for a neat way to organize and annotate your pictures.

ScrapbookFlair is a digital scrapbooking software that enables you to assemble unique album pages complete with backgrounds, embellishments, image frames, masks, annotations, text balloons and more. It supports different page sizes and includes templates for various design ideas that you can use and customize. Designing the scrapbook pages is about as easy as it gets, just select the images to include and drag them into position to arrange them on the page. The program also includes a basic image editor that lets you crop, rotate and adjust image contrast and exposure and also remove red-eye effects. You can create single page or multi-page scrapbooks and either print the pages or export them to high quality JPG files, generate HTML album pages or share them online via the SrapbookFlair community.

Adobe Photoshop Album (Starter Edition) allows you to manage, edit and organize your digital photos. This free, Starter Edition has some limitations, but provides overall management, as well as tagging (drag/drop categories for your images), cropping, color corrections and more. You can also create PDF slideshows from selected images, quickly filter your collection by assigned tags, navigate with a timeline and more.

FotoTagger enables you to add comment tags to your JPG images, that can be viewed from within the FotoTagger viewer, but are invisible in any other viewer. The tags do not modify the image data, but use the comment space that is provided with the JPG format, therefore your original images remain visually unchanged. If you want your comment tags to be visible to all others, you can save a merged copy of the image, which permanently inserts the tag into the photo. The program also integrates with Blogger and Flickr and can upload a merged copy of a tagged image to your blog, or send it by email. FotoTagger includes a search engine that indexes the comment tags in your images, and allows you to instantly find a photo based on the embedded keywords or comment. You can edit single or multiple images from the right-click menu in Windows Explorer.

StudioLine Photo Basic is an image management solution that can import your photos directly from your digital camera, scanner or your hard drive and organize them in a database that allows you to assign personal keywords, descriptions and categories. The program also includes a variety of editing tools to remove red-eye, correct exposure, adjust colors, crop images and more. Other features include export to HTML gallery, send optimized images via email, image backup, EXIF/IPTC support and more.

Pictomio is an image browser and manager that can help you organize and catalog your image collections, using a modern interface with 3D rendering and plenty of eye candy. The program allows you to sort your images into categories, assign personal ratings and keyword tags, view collections as a slide show or image carousel and more. Pictomio creates an index of your image folders and automatically classifies your photos based on their date, rating or category as well as available EXIF data and storage media - a feature that can be particularly useful for amateur photographers with huge photo collections. Other features include EXIF editing, high-quality zooming, histogram display, color picker and more.

Visions is an innovative image viewer and manager that offers 3D-style navigation of your image folders along with photo editing and sharing. You can open multiple folders as individual boards, switch between them and easily drag&drop images from one folder into the other. The standard image editing options allow you to adjust color, brightness, contrast and other image settings as well as to crop and resize your photos. Other features include EXIF tag editing, optional Flickr integration, image search and more.

Fotana allows you to organize and share your photos in albums that can be exported as HTML pages or standalone EXE file. It allows you to freely arrange and size pictures, using single or multiple photos on a page. Additional features include minor image enhancements like rotation, saturation, brightness and contrast adjustments. You can resize or crop images by simply dragging the edges until they meet the desired proportions. The albums can be exported as standalone EXE viewer or simple HTML thumbnail gallery.

Cheez is an easy to use image cataloging tool, that allows you to store your images in categories (films). In addition, you can add a comment to each image as well as keywords which are used for the built in search engine, which provides a convenient way to find specific pictures. Images can either be copied or moved to the central Cheez location (all images are store in a central location). You can also adjust the size of the thumbnail display and browse folders without importing them into a film. Other features include web album creation, emailing of images, and basic image editing and adjustments. Cheez supports 100+ image formats with the internal viewer and can optionally be configured to use a viewer of your choice. An easy to use tool to organize your images.

Manifest enables you to print a simple list of images and associated descriptions. It is primarily designed for sales items (especially cars) that have a price and an ID associated with them. You can add a long description to each item, as well as an advert text and an itemized list. The collection can then be printed in several ways, as a list with or without pictures, as individual product flyer or as a display card. You can also export the list as HTML web page. Manifest can be used to create multiple lists which are stored as data files and include all the original pictures. The program was designed to be used with used car listings, but can be customized for use with most other sales items or collections.

imgSeek is a photo collection database, that allows you to manage your photo collection. It indexes all your specified image folders, along with meta data and EXIF information, and allows you to perform custom queries to search your images. In addition to keyword queries, it offers a unique image content search that allows you to input an image, or even draw a sketch, to find images that match the criteria. You can organize images into groups, perform batch operations, create HTML galleries, find duplicate images and more. imgSeek is an Open Source software and offers may interesting features, however it appears to quite buggy in some aspects and poorly documented. We found the image content search to be the most attractive feature, while most of the others are a little difficult to use, which could be due to the lack of proper documentation. Looks promising, but still needs work.