Basic photo management: downloading, sorting, tagging, and easily finding photos. Quick photo edits: work faster with resizing, exposure correction and more, batch-edit even thousands of photos at once. Backups to keep your photographic treasures safe: automatic backups that guarantee you won’t lose your prize photos. Sharing photos on social networks: upload photos easily to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa and Zonerama. Panoramas and 3D photos: create super panoramas and 3D pictures even with a normal camera.

Do all your photo jobs in one place: downloading, editing, basic and advanced edits, and sharing. Get to work fast thanks to tools like the first run wizard and to the intuitive interface. Get impressive results already just by learning a few easy edits. Save lots of time thanks to automatic photo sorting, batch edits, and direct integration with Zonerama online galleries.

Zoner Photo Studio is for everyone who loves photography. Whether you're a complete beginner or an advanced photographer, Zoner Photo Studio is here for all your needs.

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Introduction

PhotoFiltre is a relatively small application and unlike Photoshop, will install and launch very quickly. The interface, loaded with all the features and options, can be confusing at first glance but you'll soon get used to it. The right side is composed of the shape and drawing tools and an optimizable color palette. The top bar has all the essential image editing and modification options. PhotoFiltre sadly doesn't let you customize the interface and choose your favorite tools.

Features

Among all the image modification tools, of particular usefulness is the quick contrast/hue and saturation buttons because you can check out the effects and immediately and easily correct the image if you're not satisfied with its quality. If you trust PhotoFiltre, you can also let it adjust these parameters automatically.

Like any self-respecting image editing application, PhotoFiltre includes the most widely used filters to transform your image, but if you need to make really significant changes, you'll find yourself limited. Furthermore, unlike Photoshop, PhotoFiltre doesn't include layers, making it more challenging to work on different elements of the image separately.

Like the excellent free image viewer Irfanview, PhotoFiltre covers the majority of image formats and can batch process and convert images rapidly. PhotoFiltre has five different zoom options yet they seem to be more or less similar. The magnifier is probably less precise than the drop down percentage pane, and the auto zoom adjusts the image’s size according to PhotoFiltre's window size.

The image explorer is located at the bottom of the screen, and if you set it according to your image file you'll be able to quickly preview all your pictures. However, if you work with multiple image files, it can quickly become confusing, as you’ll have to open up an explorer tree pane every time to look for your pictures.

PhotoFiltre contains all the essential tools and options to edit and optimize pictures.

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Full of features

Photoscape includes just about everything you need to view, optimize, edit, print and have fun with your photos. In fact, it's so complete that many would call it a free Photoshop alternative. Sure, it's not quite up to the level of Photoshop, but it's truly a great alternative to Adobe's big shot - and it makes photo editing a lot more fun!

Easy to use

From the program's main window you can choose what you want to do: view pictures, optimize those that didn't come out so well, print several photos on a single page collage-style or perhaps add any of the dozens of filters and special effects included in the program.

Smart interface

One of the first striking elements in Photoscape is its uncommon interface design. The application is very striking and in many ways it's easier on the eye than Photoshop.

Conclusion

There's really nothing negative to say about Photoscape. Just download it, test it, love it and keep it forever. It's free!

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What's inside?

There are three main elements to Zoner Photo Studio, the Manager and the Editor. The Manager lets you find and organize the images on your PC, the Viewer lets you view them, while the editor allows you to make simple changes to your photos.

The viewer is attractive, but nothing special, but the manager is good. The interface is simple enough, with a folder tree, browser and information panel. You can email images from Zoner Photo Studio, and apply filters to make finding them easier. There isn't anything revolutionary about the Manager, but it does its job.

Image Editing

The Editor is better, offering a range of useful tools that will allow you to improve or alter photos you've taken. It's not as powerful as Photoshop, but it's much easier to use, and has the tools that most amateur or casual photographers will need. Zoner Photo Studio has a 'quick fix', which basically makes the image a bit stronger, and you can also play around with the color, levels and resize as well. There's a red eye removing tool that works well, as well as more subtle things like a clone stamp tool. In this free version, it's really only the lack of proper layer tools that are missing.

Zoner Photo Studio is a good option for basic photo retouching and editing, and has enough tools for most users.

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Speed your workflow

This app bases its approach in smoothing and slim-lining your digital photography workflow. Weren't aware you had a workflow? Well then Corel AfterShot Pro probably isn't the app for you. Try taking a look at Picasa or Photoscape instead. But if improved photos workflow sounds like what you need, then read on. Corel AfterShot Pro is a great app.

If you work with large numbers of photos that you need to process quickly and smoothly, Corel AfterShot Pro has been designed with you in mind. It's got excellent photo management and organization features, meaning that you can find the photos you want easily and quickly. The Corel AfterShot Pro interface is attractive and user-friendly, which adds to the speed with which you can process your photos.

RAW photo editing

Corel AfterShot Pro supports a lot of photo formats, including RAW, and offers complete RAW processing. Obviously, it also offers all the usual tweaks and modifications, and all of your options are handily available through the tabbed bar that runs vertically to the right. Change the view using the buttons to the top right, and navigate through your stored photos on the left.

Impressive speed

Obviously, with all the emphasis on ease of use and speed, Corel AfterShot Pro offers extremely speedy batch processing, meaning all your photos can be public-ready in a matter of seconds. It also offers a selection of output options and templates, which makes it even easier to share the final product with clients or third parties.

Corel AfterShot Pro is a great program that's definitely aimed at professional-level photographers or at least experienced individuals with a high volume of images. It doesn't offer any fancy extras, and in certain areas, such as drawing tools, that's actually a pity. What Corel AfterShot Pro lacks in nice touches, however, is more than made up for by its sheer speed and ease of batch processing and high-volume editing.

If you're a professional or semi-professional photographer looking to speed up your workflow, Corel AfterShot Pro is the app for you.

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The goal with this application seems to be a replacement for various other programs you might use for one specific media type. Why use programs like iTunes, Picasa, and Windows Media Player when you only have to use ArcSoft MediaImpression which does all three? It certainly makes sense from the outset.

Once ArcSoft MediaImpression is installed, you are faced with buttons for music, pictures, video and all media. Clicking any of these opens a traditional pane with a folder tree on the left. In the picture segment you can perform basic edits, such as cutting, removing red eye and face-tagging. In the music and video segments you can listen to and watch any of your files, and reorganize them. You can also hit the easy archive button, which will save any selected files or folders to a CD.

If you want to print your pictures, you can order a variety of different products from ArcSoft MediaImpression, including mugs and books.

While it's potentially a good idea to have a single media application, the execution of ArcSoft MediaImpression is a bit weak. The photo editing options are not sufficient or comparable to competing programs like Adobe Photoshop Elements. ArcSoft MediaImpression's video player is similarly basic.

ArcSoft MediaImpression is a nice idea and a step in the right direction for an all-in-one media hub. Unfortunately, it still lacks some of the features and flexibility of most media players or photo editors.

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Imagine Picture Viewer is a lightweight alternative to the default Image Viewer in Windows, that adds a few basic editing tools.

With Imagine Picture Viewer you can browse images on your computer without the bloat of bigger graphic suites. The program features also a bunch of tools to do basic editing tasks, such as resizing, cropping, adjusting brightness and contrast, flipping and rotating.

Imagine Picture Viewer also includes a few simple effects to give your photo an original touch. You can turn the selected image into black and white, apply a shade of sepia to it, or even make it look like an oil painting. And when you're finished editing the image, you can share it on Flickr, Picasa, Twitpic and ImageShack from within the program.

That said, you should take into account that Imagine Picture Viewer has some limitations: it only lets you undo the last action and is a bit slow when editing large images – but it's still better than Windows' default viewer, in any case.

With Imagine Picture Viewer you have not only a lightweight viewer for your photos, but also a handy app to do basic photo editing tasks

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Fly Free Photo Editing & Viewer is undoubtedly an original addition to the ever growing collection of photo viewers out there.

Following the traditional layout of photo viewers, Fly Free Photo Editing & Viewer features an intuitive interface divided into three main areas: a tree-like structure with all your files and folders to the left, a list of available actions to the right and the contents of the selected folders displayed in the middle.

The program displays images as small thumbnails, which you can see at a slightly larger size by hovering your mouse over them. Of course, you can also double click any image to see it in full screen, and apply some basic editing effects: rotate the image, add text, tweak brightness and contrast values, and erase red-eye among others.

Besides these typical options, Fly Free Photo Editing & Viewer features more original tools such as a built-in web browser, an embedded search engine to look for photos on Google Images, a tool to create PowerPoint presentations with your images right away and special options to share your image via email, MSN, Picasa, Flickr or Facebook. Too bad most of these sharing options didn't seem to work properly.

Fly Free Photo Editing & Viewer is a quite promising tool for photo viewing and editing that unfortunately doesn't live up to expectations.

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Firstly, don't get confused by the name. There are at least two other software packages called Aurora, including a visual designer app and a multifunction alarm clock.

Aurora Photo Editor, however, is all about retouching, organizing and sharing photos. The program is mainly designed to bring the best out of dull or color imbalanced photos via an easy-to-use interface.

Aurora Photo Editor features a pop-up image selector that lets you preview and tinker with your photo until the desired results are achieved. Amongst the tasks you can perform are re-touch, straighten, adjust color strength, crispness and warmth, crop, zoom and adjust red-eye. The most useful feature is probably the relight tool which seems to magically add new life to photos and bring out colors and details that weren't as clearly visible before.

The user interface in Aurora Photo Editor is very elegant and easy to use.. All of your folders containing photos on your computer are listed down the left-hand side. Selecting any one of them will reveal the photos contained in them on the photo grid. I found that the photos took a while to load into the grid compared to iPhoto or Picasa but it's no big problem.

Once the photos are loaded, Aurora Photo Editor may prompt you to backup all of them to an Amazon database. I was offered the chance to do so for free since I had less than 2GB of photos, which is quite a generous offer. The four main options along the top of the photo grid are: 'Publish', 'Edit', 'Email' and 'Print.' The most important is 'Edit', because this brings up all the main editing options.

What I liked about Aurora Photo Editor is that applying effects is simple and you're given a preview of what your photos will look like across the top of the grid. You can select from different gradients of the effect without having to apply anything. You can, however, get a bit bogged down in the amount of adjustments possible. It's far easier to click 'Auto Relight' and Aurora Photo Editor will automatically detect what will make your photo look better. I also liked the 'Retouch' button, which allows you to doctor images incredibly easily. Want to erase someone from an image? Just click 'Retouch' and select which part of the image you'd like to replace with something generic from elsewhere in the picture.

Meanwhile, publishing in Aurora Photo Editor is integrated with both Flickr and Facebook and emailing is even integrated with online web accounts, such as Windows Live Mail and Gmail.

Overall, I was very impressed with Aurora Photo Editor. It can't make a silk purse out of a pigs ear but if your photo can be improved in any way, Aurora is sure to find it.

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I have to admit, it would be nice to reply just on one photo editing and viewing program to manage my photos.

The problem at the moment is that I use Picasa for uploading but not for editing or management. Visions is designed to try and unite all the most important photos editing and managements tasks in one program, mainly viewing, editing and sharing. Editing photos is very simple in visions and the feel is really professional and solid. In particular, the program outs a heavy focus on the right tagging of photos via it's advanced Meta (EXIF) editor. The problem or advantage, depending on whether you use it regularly, is that the only way you can share photos with Visions is via Flickr so like it or not, you'll need a Flickr account. But what really shines out with Twins Visions is the 3D viewer which allows you to view and manage your photos in 3D. Via the 3D showroom, you can navigate through your folders, run slide-shows of your photos, manage your albums, perform quick photo collection tasks and execute advanced search queries on your collections.

This is an immensely attractive and powerful photo management/viewing application. However, it does require a Flickr account.

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Photo editing features

The most outstanding feature of this photo editor is its seamless integration with Windows Explorer, which means it adds a whole new command group to image file context menus. These commands enable you to launch Photo! Editor's main tools straight away, without having to open the program first.

As for the tools included in Photo! Editor, it's a pretty basic program. That said, Photo! Editor works perfectly fine for small retouching tasks such as optimizing colors, removing red eye or even clearing someone's skin of spots, wrinkles and other slight imperfections. Other tools included are a resampling/cropping utility, some really cool light effects and a caricature tool to apply a hilarious morphing effect to your photos.

Flawed browsing

The only drawback to Photo! Editor is that there's no way to browse the folder's contents using thumbnails. This means that if your photo file names are not descriptive enough, you'll have to click on them one by one just to find out which picture they correspond to.

Outdated look and features

Although Photo! Editor provides easy access to tools for fixing red eye, enhancing color, and even creating caractures, they still feel very basic. The interface is where the app falls flat, as the design is very dated, where as free apps like Picasa continue to evolve.

Overall

Photo! Editor is the perfect choice for those who are looking for a simple, lightweight and easy-to-use photo editor to fix their digital images.

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There are a myriad of programs out there to manage your photos but some seem to do the job better than others.

IDimager Personal Edition is designed for those who deal with a huge quantity of photos on a daily basis and need something ultra powerful and organised. Normally, I only use Picasa to organise my photos because it's simply well integrated with the internet for uploading photos. However, this program comes with all the tools and basic features you need to get yourself organised with your photos. It can import images from a digital camera, browse, organize, catalog, control versions, archive, edit, e-mail, print, find and make slide shows. However, what really impressed me was the ability to publish images to the internet which is not always common in such programs. I wouldn't say it was as well done as with Picasa because it doesn't link to any kind account but it does prepare you very well for uploading by optimising photos into more manageable resolutions for speedy uploads.

This won't really impress professionals but amateur photographers could find that it helps them organise their collection.

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Better JPEG edits your JPEG image files, offering the basic tools like crop, red eye or resize. The interface, with the left side explorer panel to search for your pictures and the top tool bar, makes everything easy to access. You can quickly add text comments to your jpegs. Better JPEG claims that all operations are lossless, meaning the quality of the image will stay the same no matter how much editing you do.

We were disappointed by the limited editing features. No contrast, sepia or greyscale features even those are often considered basic. You can send a jpeg via email but for that, you will have to make sure you have a MAPI email client. The application also crashed when we were browsing for pictures.

As the developer states in his description, JPEG is really only useful to quickly edit JPEG images. However, with most photo organisers, like Picasa, already offering more simple editing tools, Better JPEG turns out to be something of a lame duck.

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