ID-sized photos tend to be something that you never have enough of and, given that it can be a pain to go to the closest mall and get some new ones taken, you could just take a recent photo and make multiple copies of it from the comfort of your PC. IDPhotoStudio is a program that will create and print passport sized photos for you in a snap.

Featuring only the bare necessities, IDPhotoStudio, will handle the job in seconds, allowing you to drag and drop your picture onto the interface. You can then select between three ID Photo sizes: US, Canada or France. Because you often need a certain number of photos printed out, IDPhotoStudio has a little drag meter to let you select how many photos you’ll need, from 1 to 15. Click on the print button to get the paper copies of your photo.

IDPhotoStudio is an original idea, and it’s good to see someone come up with a program to quickly print out ID photos. However, the application left us disappointed for a number of reasons. First of all, it doesn’t respect the aspect ratio of photos, so if you drag a large image there’s a risk it’ll appear distorted. Also, when it comes to editing functions, IDPhotoStudio only includes the option to apply sepia or monochrome color filters. We would have preferred if it included tools like a red-eye remover, cropping or contrasting, which are much more useful for improving the quality of pictures. The program doesn't even include an undo feature, meaning that if you accidentally set your image to greyscale when you'd prefer it in color, you'll need to start over.

If you have a good mug shot of yourself and want to quickly print out a set of passport sized photos, IDPhotoStudio will probably suit you. However, the lack of advanced editing features means you’ll never really be guaranteed with a high quality image of yourself. In all, if you want to be on the safe side, use a proper photo editing application like Photoshop or Photofiltre to edit and print good ID sized photos.

Download IDPhotoStudio 2.5.0.17 in Softonic

As one of the mainstays of the instant messaging world, Yahoo! has finally decided to drag itself onto the VOIP bandwagon with the launch of this Voice version of its popular client. As well as offering free PC-to-PC calls and cheap PC-to-phone (landline and mobile) calls, the program throws in all the usual over-the-top gadgetry and gimmicks we've come to associate with Yahoo! Messenger.

As we've seen before from programs that try to be all things to all people, there's always a danger that things can get a little out of hand for the user, and this is the territory that Yahoo is entering with this latest incarnation of its messenger. It's true that the voice facilities in the program are top-notch, delivering crystal-clear clarity for most calls to PCs and phones. It's also true that the application boasts a bevy of interesting and innovative features, such as the ability to play games and listen to online radio together, send animated, talking emoticons, and quickly share files and photos simply by dragging and dropping them into the chat window.

Although, in the main, these features are good for a laugh, we did have a couple of things that we'd like to raise if we ever met Mr Yahoo! Firstly, we like the games but they lack instructions, so sometimes it can take a while to figure out how to play them. Also many of the so-called 'Audibles,' which are essentially animated, talking emoticons, are a little vulgar to say the least, and not really suitable for anyone with a reputation to uphold.

There are plenty of ways to customize the client to suit your mood too. The main interface is fully skinable, and you can also change the way the chat window looks by selecting from dozens of themed 'IMvironments', which certainly helps to inject some variety into your chat experiences. You can also build your own avatar – a process which can take hours as you carefully select the right haircut, clothes, sunglasses and even breed of dog to have sitting at your side in your IM profile.

Individually, these features are both innovative and compelling, but ironically they combine to contribute to the downfall of Messenger for Voice. The fact is that all of these options serve to swamp the interface and if you have a lot of the features running at the same time it's often hard to find even the text window. While it's fun and novel at first, the messenger very quickly becomes an irritant more than anything. Our advice – stick with Skype.

Download Yahoo! Messenger with Voice 9.0.0.1912 in Softonic

PixFiler is a program that makes it quick and easy to keep your digital photos organized. The program is designed to be easy to use. It will locate and display your photo in just seconds. It will read most image formats, even raw files from most digital cameras, no matter if they are stored on your hard disk or on a CD or DVD. And it doesn't slow down as your image collection grows. Several 10,000s is no problem for PixFiler.

Benefits of PixFinder:

• Fast and easy to use
• Powerful tools makes it easy to categorize and annotate the photos
• Will let you browse photos on CD/DVD without having to insert the CD/DVD
• Make reports, prints, and contact sheets
• Make auto-run CDs and DVDs
• Supports many file formats, including RAW for most digital cameras
• Full screen viewing and zooming
• Get information from EXIF and IPTC meta data
• Users can share the same data on a network

Download PixFiler 5.2.6 in Softonic

Fresh View is a free program designed to help 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, such as thumbnails 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 even create a HTML album. This easy-to-use software supports 86 different formats.

Download Fresh View 7.54 in Softonic

Photo Collage is a full featured, easy-to-use application with which you can create beautiful photo compositions in no time. No technical skills required!

The program contains just about anything you need you create the collage – that is, everything except images themselves. The featured material includes background images, frames, clipart, borders and masks, all of them is such a large and colorful variety that you'll find it hard to choose just one. Besides, the program is extraordinarily easy to use: simply drag and drop the different elements of your collage on the interface, resize and rearrange them any way you want with your mouse and you're pretty much done. It's like scrapbooking, but without scissors and glue.

The only drawback I found to this great app is the fact that some frames don’t blend with the background properly, meaning they show a white border around the frame instead of being transparent. Also, I'd like to be able to save my work in other formats (HTML, EXE) rather than just as an image file, but at least I have a few graphic formats to choose from.

Photo Collage enables you to create amazing collages with your digital pictures, but only save them as image files.

Download iFoxSoft Photo Collage 2.06 in Softonic

Creating collages with your photos is an easy way to breathe new life into an ageing or rather dull photo collection.

With PhotoCool, you can print multiple photos in one page and arrange them in custom designed collages. Alternatively, you can make photo albums, passport photos, mini ID card photos and CD covers via simple templates. Most templates have wizards which take you through the setup process in 4 steps.

However, note that you'll need glossy paper for best results when it comes to printing. PhotoCool can be used as a TWAIN app too which means that I will retrieve photos from your external device or camera without the need for using third-party software. Once detected, you can drag-and-drop images into PhotoCool or alternatively, you can arrange them by thumbnails and allow PhotoCool to extract them automatically on it's own.

PhotoCool makes it easy to create collages, passport photos, ID photos and just about any other kind of photo template you can think of.

Download PhotoCool 2.01 in Softonic

Kodak Easyshare is a digital photo organizer which gives you access to your Kodak Gallery and make use of Kodak's project and print services.

You'll find it offers what you expect of a digital photo organizer, such as being able to save your photos in albums and show them in calendar view, adding tags, easy transferring from your camera and sharing them with others via email or burning on a CD. You can also create a little slideshow to view albums in full screen.

I did find the application a little counter-intuitive, partly due to the color of the interface, which makes it difficult to set buttons apart. A simple action like adding an album, wasn't easy as it should be.

Although limited, the range of editing tools available was OK. You can enhance your picture, set the balance and add a few effects to make a little snazzier. Both the tips and online guide provided by Kodak are thorough.

You can use Kodak Easyshare without actually having a Kodak account, however you'll find many places in the application where it encourages you to do so. Your use of the application will also obviously be limited if you don't have one as you won't be able to print photos or create projects.

Kodak Easyshare is a digital photo manager, that gives access to Kodak services online.

Download Kodak Easyshare 7.0 in Softonic

Poster Forge is a fun tool that enables you to create posters with your own digital pictures in a very easy way. Unlike other similar tools, which only create larger versions of the image for you to print out, Poster Forge adds some cool effects that can turn any picture into a motivational poster, movie poster or a Far West "Wanted" style poster.

The program's interface is divided into three tabs (one for each kind of poster) and includes all the tools you need to customize them. Simply add a picture, type in any text you want, tweak a few settings and you're pretty much done. Unfortunately, there were things I couldn't customize, such as font size. Also, even though there's a tool to move the picture around and make it fit better, it's very limited and sometimes the picture needs to be cropped with a third-party app.

Once finished, the poster can be saved as an image file or conveniently printed as a poster with the built-in printing tool, which enables you to optimize poster printing and make them easier to assemble.

Turn your photos into original posters very easily and in just a few minutes.

Download Poster Forge 1.01.10 in Softonic

ProPoster is intended for printing standard (A1, A2) format posters or user defined posters on smaller format sheets. Program automatically divides the chosen image into the necessary quantity of pages. With the help of the program it is possible to print out the poster, the photo wall-paper, the advertisement board in the size up to 10 * 10 m. For creation of the poster – a glue, scissors and little skills are required in addition.

Download ProPoster 2.02.09 in Softonic

Scanners, digital cameras and the internet mean that we are inundated with more photos and images than ever before. Sometimes, you may just want to print a whole batch of photos on one page instead of slowly one by one.

PrintStation makes this task pretty easy. You can print multiple pictures on multiple pages, with custom page layouts, along with headers and footer text. Most of this doesn't require much more than a few clicks. You can print pictures in columns and rows, resize or multiply single pictures as well as automatically size and position them to fit within your selected print settings.

The template is a clear and easy WYSIWYG preview of all the pages of images you have chosen to print so you can see exactly what you will get. You can also optionally choose to show the filename, file date, file time and other information above or under each image. Most importantly, it supports a huge range of formats including JPEG, TIFF, PCX, DCX, BMP, DIB, PIC, PNG and GIF - very important when you are gathering together photos from various sources.

This is a great idea for those that want to save paper and time although it doesn't allow you to edit your images much so you'll need a third party app for that.

Download PrintStation 2.72 in Softonic

Massive photo editing tools like Photoshop are great, but some find them too heavy and complicated for everyday usage.

PicPick is definitely a better choice if what you need is just a simple image editor. With PicPick you can easily perform simple editing tasks to your photos, including brightness, contrast and color adjustment, grayscale, blur, pixelate and other special effects. There's also a cool whiteboard feature which enables you to write and draw directly on the screen.

But PicPick is not only an image editor: it's also a full featured screen capturing tool with which you can capture the image on your monitor in several ways: full screen, active window, user-defined area and more. Plus, PicPick can work with several documents simultaneously and captures can be triggered with customizable keyboard shortcuts, which makes it even handier.

I liked the versatility of PicPick, as well as the fact that it doesn't require installation. On the downside, I missed certain features such as support for printing or the ability to capture complete webpages with automatic scrolling.

PicPick is a lightweight yet full featured image editor and capturer, perfect for simple daily image editing tasks.

Download PicPick 1.7.2 in Softonic

If you've been labelling your burned DVD and CD discs with a marker pen then stop - use Discus instead to create some truly original CD covers.

Discus allows you to create and print CD and DVD labels, CD case covers and inserts, DVD box covers and inserts, and more. Discus supports all direct printing onto discs via printer but this depends on whether your own printer supports this option. The great thing though is that Discus allows you to import your own photos and artwork or use one of the many predefined templates provided with the program.

The key thing you'll notice with Discus is the speed at which it does everything. It loads instantly and requires no installation - Discus can be run directly from the EXE file. As regards design and control, there's not a great deal of creativity that it allows itself. It's better to create something in Photoshop and then import it into the program. However, you can perform special text features such as curved and angled text to fit the contours of the disc.

A super fast and easy way to create your disc covers, Discus is one of the quickest ways to give your CD's and DVD's a personal touch.

Download Discus 4.06 in Softonic

GenoPro is a software to draw family trees. Among all the family tree software, GenoPro is the simplest to learn and easiest to use. If you are a beginner to genealogy, you can learn to use GenoPro in a few minutes without the need to take a look at the online help.

GenoPro is capable to draw any type of family tree, including the most complicated family difficult to "picture". Once you have finished your family tree, you can save your family tree in a metafile to insert in Word, PowerPoint or any other Windows software. A metafile is a picture with a transparent background capable to be scaled to any size without quality loss. You can use GenoPro to create a huge poster of your family tree.

GenoPro can insert unlimited pictures for each individual and family, and help you to create a CD ROM of your family album. GenoPro has a powerful report generator to generate detailed reports in the language of your choice. Those reports can be printed using Word or published on the Web using your internet connection. GenoPro has built-in reports in 10 languages and you are welcome to add your own language or customize an existing report to your taste.

GenoPro has an excellent tool to compile statistics about your family and ancestry. With a few mouse clicks, you can find everything from the oldest ancestor to the largest family to the individual most divorced.

GenoPro uses the genogram to represent your family tree. A genogram is a graphical representation of a family with a set of simple rules and images. Genograms include basic information about the number of marriages, number of children in each marriage, birth order, age and death. Some genograms also include relationships between individuals and information on disorders running in a family such as alcoholism, depression and diseases.

Download GenoPro 2007 in Softonic

Not everybody has a plotter at home, so if you want to print large-sized posters in your humble A4 printer, your best option is Posterazor.

This open-source tool splits up any image into several sheets of paper, enabling you to print them out and then build a poster as large as you want it to be. Just bear in mind that you should use high definition photos, because otherwise you'll get a nice pixelated design instead of a huge attractive poster to pin up on your bedroom's walls. The good thing is that Posterazor supports a really wide variety of image formats.

Posterazor works as a wizard, guiding you through five simple steps in order to create your poster. Though this is probably the easiest way to go for novice users, I missed having a somewhat more advanced interface with other extra options such as frames and borders, some guiding lines to cut out the image or the possibility to add a text layer or even apply a watermark, like in Posteriza (why do they all have similar names?).

The final poster is created in PDF format, so you'll need a PDF reader in order to open the file and print it. I personally recommend Foxit Reader but any other will do the trick. And I must say the results were gorgeous!

Despite lacking some advanced features, its ease of use and support for a wide array of image formats make of Posterazor a great tool for printing large posters.

Download PosteRazor 1.5 in Softonic

Despite the popularity of online photo sharing services like Flickr, there are still people who prefer to handle their photos and create albums with desktop software tools.

A good example of these tools is KoffeePhoto, with which you can easily manage your photos and share them online with family and friends. After creating a user account for free, you'll be given access to a private profile page with unlimited album hosting and photo sharing capabilities. I'm somewhat reluctant to believe the "unlimited" bit, but I was unable to find any small print about limitations.

KoffeePhoto lets you create albums with personal comments for each photo. You can then choose to share them online or not; if you do, the program sends a customized e-mail message to selected addresses with a link to the online album.

The program also includes a basic image editor that enables you to improve some elements in pictures (light, color, perspective) as well as add basic filters (namely sepia and black and white). Albums though can't be customized.

With KoffePhoto you'll be able to organize and share photos online very easily, and also use it as a backup tool for your pictures.

Download KoffeePhoto 2.5.118 in Softonic

When you first start up FxFoto it searches your entire hard drive for images and imports them into a handy thumbnail viewer. From there it’s as easy as a drag-and-drop operation to add pictures to your collage. You can also import you pictures directly from your scanner or digital camera.

If some of the pictures need a little tweaking, FxFoto provides you with all of the basic image adjustment controls and also has an impressive collection of filters which are all easily accessible from the well laid-out interface. You can add frames to individual pictures in your collage or to the entire creation.

FxFoto can also be used to make scrapbook pages and slide shows and has a great number of ways to publish your creations including, email, print, web sites and slide shows. This makes a brilliant for non-techy users or even small kids to use. There are a few more advanced photo management tools out there, but FxFoto provides a cheap alternative that is more than equal to most tasks.

Download FxFoto 6.0.070 in Softonic

With an ever growing collection of digital photos, many of us are in constant search of an appropriate tool to manage them all.

Photo Manager 2008 Professional can be the answer to this search. This full featured application works as a photo manager, viewer and editor, plus including some extra tools to make the most of your photo collection: HTML album maker, tag editor and more.

The program features a classic interface divided into several areas that contain your system's folder structure, image preview and a task list. You can view your photos in thumbnail lists or in a gorgeous full-screen slideshow, apply a series of basic edition effects, create an HTML photo album to share your pictures online, see and edit EXIF data (which includes camera model, exposure, date and time, etc) for each image, print several photos on a single sheet of paper and find duplicate images, among other possibilities.

Despite the array of tools included, Photo Manager 2008 Professional falls a bit short of expectations. Its editing capabilities are a bit limited – at least when compared to other similar programs – and it also lacks functionalities that you can often find in other photo editors.

Photo Manager 2008 Professional is a photo editor and viewer with which you can organize, view and edit your pictures, though it lacks many advanced tools you can find in other similar apps.

Download Photo Manager 2008 Professional 1.0 Release 2 in Softonic

With the Hofmann Digital Album you can quickly and easily compose and arrange your digital album or digital poster (with a wooden frame) using your own photos or any image.

Its use is completely instinctive and simple. Any PC user can quickly manage it without any previous training. At the same time it is a very powerful program that will allow you to do in a few clicks practically anything you can imagine with your photos like improving the brightness and contrast, cropping or enlarging the images as you prefer, changing them to black and white or sepia tone, correcting the "red eye" effect and making use of the automatic improvement for each photo.

In order to design your album the program offers plenty of covers, layouts, backgrounds, text options and functions. It really is child´s play. If you are using the program for the first time, you should simply try everything out. There are no wrong choices and you will soon control all functions. Have a look at the "Quick guide" and the "User´s manual" in the icons bar, which may be helpful, too.

You can then send your project via Internet and in a few days you will receive, at the address you indicated, your Hofmann Digital Album printed and bound in high quality finish or your Hofmann Digital Poster together with a beautiful wooden frame.

Download Hofmann Digital Album 5.8 in Softonic

With an ever growing collection of digital photos, many computer users are in search of an appropriate tool to manage them.

Photo Manager 2008 can be the answer to this search. This complete application works as a photo manager, viewer and editor, plus including some extra tools to make the most of your photo collection.

The program features a classic interface divided into several areas that contain your system's folder structure, image preview and a task list. You can view your photos in thumbnail lists or full screen, apply a series of basic edition effects, create an HTML photo album to share your pictures online, see and edit EXIF data in each image, print several photos on a single sheet of paper and find duplicate images, among other possibilities.

Despite the array of tools included, Photo Manager 2008 generally falls short of expectations. Its editing capabilities are a bit limited – at least when compared to other similar programs – and it also lacks functionalities that you can easily find in other photo editors.

Photo Manager 2008 is a photo editor and viewer with which you can organize, view and edit your pictures, though it lacks advanced tools you find in other similar apps.

Download Photo Manager 2008 1.0 in Softonic

I’ve always liked to create posters and picture collage with my photos, to make greetings cards, or simply to display thematic pictures in a funny way, but doing this with Photoshop can be a rather difficult and time consuming activity.

With Picture Collage Maker you can easily create very nice collages with different shadow effects that you can apply to each picture. When creating a new project you can choose the ‘Template Collage Wizard’ option, the ‘Grid Collage Wizard’ one, or simply create a collage from scratch. Try the wizard the first time, to get an idea of what the program can do and how your poster can look.

After uploading your photos, choose the template you like most and press the ‘Finish-Edit’ button. At this point you’ll be able to apply or change effects, add more photos, and see a preview of the final result. When you’re done, right-click on the poster to save it as a JPEG or to set it as wallpaper, or to send it by mail to a friend. Something missing in this application is an option to print your collage on different sheets to create a big poster.

Picture Collage Maker does exactly what it says in a friendly and easy-to-use environment. It features many backgrounds and effects so that you can present your photos to your friends in a beautiful collage.

Download Picture Collage Maker 1.9.1 in Softonic