Photo Organizers

ACDSee Photo Manager helps you to view and organize your photo collections. You can use keywords and categories to quickly locate the images you are looking for , and also assign personal ratings to find your best shots. In addition to photo management, the program also includes editing features that allow you to repair your images, optimize exposure, remove red-eye effects, crop, rotate and more. Other features include emailing of (optimized) images, batch resizing and adjustments, image slideshows, CD/DVD creation, HTML gallery wizard, PDF conversion, calendar navigation, EXIF/IPTC support and more.

IMatch is a complete image management solution that allows you to effectively organize hundreds or thousands of digital images. You can create and use albums and categories, and sort your pictures based on keywords, and search through your collection, using complex queries. In addition, the program lets you convert between formats, edit and enhance your photos, rename them and more. IMatch comes with support for RAW image formats (NEF, CRW, ORF, RAF...) as well as full support for embedded EXIF and IPTC data. Additional features include lossless rotation, support for removable media, printing and email integration, customizable menus and automation via scripting options.

NeoDownloader is a multi-threaded tool for downloading pictures, audio files, videos and other media from web galleries. With NeoDownloader browsing the Web for pictures is made simple and easy - you drag the URL of a page, drop it on the Drop Basket and this smart utility explores it and downloads all images to your hard drive. You can immediately see everything you download and delete unwanted pictures. You can also set the program to explore the entire web site and retrieve only those images that you want. NeoDownloader provides a number of features to make image retrieval simple and easy, they include image filtering, image preview, a built-in image viewer and the option to set selected picture as Windows wallpaper. You also can keep selected URLs as projects, complete with your settings for the individual sites. This allows you to quickly access them in the future without having to change the program options or re-enter the URL.

ThumbsPlus is a photo database for organizing, viewing and editing of your pictures and graphic files. It offers support for over 100 file formats, as well as digital camera RAW formats that can be added via plug-in. Thumbs Plus allows you to manage your image collection, add comments, keywords and more. It also includes features to edit and improve image quality, apply filters create photo galleries, print contact sheets and much more. Other features include batch processing, IPTC and EXIF support, file renaming, search for duplicate files and advanced search queries based on specific image properties.

InAlbum provides a fun and easy way to turn your digital photos into a stunning photo show, that can be exported to standalone EXE file, VideoCD to play on your TV or published to the web in Flash format. The program offers a variety of templates to choose from and you can also create your own, decorate them with clipart, buttons, photo frames and transition effects, speech bubbles, animated Flash objects, background music, sound events and much more. It makes it very easy to create unique photo presentations that look professional and are easy to distribute. In addition, you can print photos, make screensavers, wallpapers and burn directly to CD and create a DVD or VCD. The registered version also includes free online hosting for your album. Overall a quite impressive program to create unique photo shows, portable albums and more!

Paint Shop Photo Album is a full featured solution to manage, organize, share, publish and enhance your digital photos. It integrates a digital photo album that allows you to organize your pictures by keyword, date and categories, and includes a handy calendar browser to quickly find pictures from a specific date range. The program also includes a set of popular phot enhancing tools to easily add text, remove red-eye, resize, crop, frame your images and more. Furthermore, Paint Shop Photo Album includes features to create slideshows, make photo CDs, print albums, cards and many other things. The program has a user-friendly interface and is easy enough to be used by beginners, yet offers many features to accommodate more advanced users as well.

CodedColor PhotoStudio Pro is an all-in-one photo editing and management solution that allows to to organize your images into albums, view, edit, annotate and much more. The program can handle everything from viewing and printing to publishing them on the web or sharing them by email. It includes editing tools to remove red-eye effects, adjust color and brightness, crop and resize and more. CodedColor also acts as a complete photo database that stores your images and allows you to search them using various criteria. Additional features include lossless JPG rotation, web gallery creation from templates, watermarks, batch conversions and more.

IDimager is a full featured image viewer and organizer with additional options to create thumbnail galleries from your collections. The viewer includes features like image conversion, slideshows, thumbnail views, full-screen view, image editing, effects and more. You can assign keywords and ratings to your images and the program automatically categorizes them based on the assigned criteria. The web publishing features include customizable templates with support for scripting and built-in FTP upload. It also includes a Digital Camera wizard to import pictures and an email function to easily send optimized (smaller) versions of your images via email. IDimager supports all popular image formats, including JPG, BMP, GIF,TIF and many others, as well as Canon Raw formats.

Smart Pix builds a database of all the images and multimedia files in your collection and allows you to (quickly and easily) assign multiple keywords or descriptions to them. These keywords and descriptions are used for performing Boolean searches on your collection to locate and categorize specific files. Smart Pix Manager offers support for all common Images, Sounds, Videos, Text, Office and HTML formats. The program creates and maintains a database of your images and allows you to assign and remove multiple keywords against each file, Supports AND/OR/NOT searching for images of specified keywords as well as automatic detection of duplicate files within your collection. It also includes batch functionality for input of files and keywords, etc.

PicaJet FX is a photo organizer that offers direct import from your camera, image sharing via email or web gallery, automatic photo enhancement, personal ratings and categories, as well as printing features and more. The photo organizer allows you to view your images by rating, keyword or date/timeline and you can easily categorize your images by simple drag and drop. In addition, it offers several editing features to correct red-eye, cropping, image sharpening, level adjustment and more. Additional features include direct CD/DVD burning, an image search engine with support for EXIF data, slideshow maker and an easy to use tool to generate a web gallery from templates.

Media Purveyor is an image viewer, and media player that allows you to manage your digital image collections. It supports IPTC, EXIF, JPEG Comment, PNG Key/Values, Dublin Core and ID3 information, and allows you to search for images or media files based on these criteria, and also view and edit image information to organize your files. In addition, the program offers lossless image editing, red-eye removal, color balance (with white balance), text annotations, and various image effects. Media Purveyor can also generate thumbnails, index images, convert images and more. Another small but handy feature is an image comparison option, which allows you to view two selected images side-by-side.

iView MediaPro is a professional photo and media organizer with full support for read/write IPTC annotations, EXIF data, custom categories, image tagging keyword assignment and more. It offers support for more than 70 image and media formats as well as over 50 Digital Raw formats. The easy-to-use interface provides a list view and thumbnail browser that allows for drag and drop operations to classify and categorize your images. The program is designed to efficiently handle very large collection of files (100,000 +) and includes various features to simplify workflow and file management. Other features include ICC color management, advanced slide shows and movie creation, HTML gallery creation, WYSIWYG printing, media archiving to CD/DVD, as well as integrated image editing features.

FlipAlbum is a virtual photo album with realistic page flipping effects that automatically organizes digital images into picture albums. Simply select the folder which contains the photos and it will create a book-like album complete with thumbnails, table of content and index. An advanced image editor helps you to enhance your pictures and annotate your album pages. You can also upload and share the albums you created with family and friends via the Internet.

Secure Family Album allows you to store your digital family photos together in an encrypted album. All the photos may be categorized hierarchically in categories, folders and sub-folders. Any single photo, as well as the entire album can be protected with a password, allowing you to exclude certain images from casual viewing by specifying a different password than the one used to open the album. The program supports all the popular image formats such as JPEG, GIF and BMP. Secure Family Album is very easy to use and supports drag and drop.

Ulead Photo Explorer is a complete solution for the digital photography enthusiast. Photo Explorer combines easy-to-use tools for acquiring, viewing, organizing, adjusting and sharing digital images and video clips. Easily navigate through powerful program functions with clear and simple toolbars. Browse through a file tree folder structure, similar to Windows Explorer. Share photos with friends and family with a free account on iMira.com and much more

StudioLine Photo Classic allows you to manage, edit, and share your digital images from a single application. It offers various image editing tools, as well as features to send images by email, burn them on a CD or create a web gallery. The Macintosh-style interface allows you to view your image collections as thumbnails, and apply effects, edit selected images, view EXIF and ITPC data and more. Additional features include timeline browsing, user defined image categories, histogram, support for RAW files and more. StudioLine Photo also allows you to create create cards, calendars and CD covers.

BR`s PhotoArchiver is a tool to organize your pictures and manage them from a single interface, regardless of where they are located on your hard drive or on a CD. You can add your photos to the database, annotate them, and order them into multiple views, based on category and keywords you assign. It also allows you to edit multiple pictures at once, allowing you to assign an entire group of pictures to certain keyword or categories. If you store your pictures on CDs, the program will cache thumbnails of the images, so you can browse them without having to insert the CD; if you need to access the full size original, it can tell you which CD to insert. Additional features include simple web page creation, export of data to CSV file and an option to create self-playing photo CDs. The program supports 19 common graphics formats, including RAW for most Canon, Nikon, and Sigma cameras.

Show Your Photos Photo Album is an easy to use photo album that handles most image formats. You can use it to organize digital images & photos on your PC and present them as thumbnails, presentations or slide shows. You can also use it to create photo CDs or to easily email any photo. Entire albums can be printed on a matrix from 1 to 100 per sheet on any orientation. Additional features include screensaver creation, advanced search and sort and more. Show Your Photos also includes a capable image editing application that allows you to import and modify your images, add text and more.

PixFiler is a simple image organizer that stores your photos in a database, allowing you to view, categorize, print and share them via the web or a CD. You can assign keywords to images, that you can use to easily find them later, using the integrated search engine. If you burn the images to a CD, the program includes this search functionality on the CD as well. PixFiler can also act as a CD cataloger, allowing you to search offline CDs and view reference thumbnails of the images without having to insert the media. Other features include RAW support, image resizing, EXIF support, bulk keyword editing, export to CSV file and more.

Photo Organizer Deluxe is a complete program that allows PC users to create and manage picture and multimedia catalogs. It provides a simple interface and offers ready-to-use templates, that make it easy to set up and use. A wizard is provided set up and use the image and multimedia database organizers that you create. Additional features include HTML reports, integrated screen capture, scanner support and more. Your database is completely customizable, in fact you can create it from scratch, setting field names, layout and more. If you prefer an easy start, you can use the templates to choose from various database designs that are ready to use. The program can also be used to organize many other things and is not limited to just photos.

Collectorz.com Photo Collector is an image organizer that allows you to automatically organize your digital photos in a database, using existing EXIF and IPTC information. It can import photos directly from a media card or existing folders on your computer. You can search the database using queries, filter the display based on the collected data and more. Photo Collector also includes some basic image editing features, as well as an option to create slideshows and HTML image gallery from selected photos. The program supports common JPG/TIFF/GIF/PNG but not digital RAW formats.

The Picture Organizer will easily organize pictures and images, and allow you to send and receive pictures and compressed packages of pictures by e-mail over the internet. Images are organized in albums and grouped by packages for sending and receiving. The Picture Organizer can search your disk or CD-Rom and display some of the major file types such as pictures, sounds, music, and videos. You can display, Edit, Copy, Print, and Send/Receive Pictures and Images over the Internet. Includes a built in viewer and scanner support.

AlbumSee allows you to create, edit and view photoalbums and slide shows. It is easy in use and does not require any special skills. With the help of AlbumSee you can quickly create a virtual photo album or slide show, edit them and e-mail to your friends. The program supports the following formats - BMP, JPEG, PCX, PGM, PICT, PNG, TGA, TIFF and WMF. AlbumSee contains a Wizard and a Viewer, the wizard lets you create, edit and convert your photo albums and the viewer application is used for viewing, scaling, panning, export of photos, and also supports slide show mode.

PhotoAlb is a virtual photo album, image indexer and viewing tool. It provides basic image editing, sound and video playback, as well as database functions to find and organizer your images. Other features include a slideshow viewer, a screensaver feature and TWAIN scanner support. Your photos can be organized in a virtual album and also exported to HTML format. They can be saved as proprietary .alb file, which can be viewed with a free viewer. Good functionality, but a much outdated Win95 style interface.

Digital Photo Cataloger is a simple photo manager to catalog and organize your digital image collection. It includes basic features to categorize and rate your photos, view EXIF data, edit IPTC data, search for photos by keyword and more. The program creates a catalog of your images, which enables you to search for files on removable drives or CDs, even if the drive or media is not inserted. Digital Photo Cataloger is easy to use, but limited to the most basic image management features. If that is all you need, give it a spin.

Image Studio Pro is an image viewer and manager, designed to help you organize and share your digital photos. It allows you to create collect, send images by email and create a (simple) HTML gallery. The program offers a CD indexing feature that can store information from images on a CD allowing you to search for specific photos by keywords or other aspects, even if the CD is not inserted. Additional features include image filters and basic image corrections, image format conversions, and option to create EXE slideshow packages and more. Image Studio Pro provides an array of mostly basic features, and some of them did not perform to our expectations.