Image Managers
From TSG Library of Knowledge
Image managers or image organizers are programs that help organize pictures into folders, tag them, and view many at once. Most can also perform basic editing functions, like brightness and saturation.
Free and Open Source
- Picasa
- Picasa is a beautiful image organizer from Google with many features, especially ones concerning tagging and searching. Windows and Linux only.
- FastStone Image Viewer FastStone Image viewer is a simple and easy to use image organizer that has primitive editing options.
For Pay
- iPhoto
- Included with OS X, iPhoto is a simple yet versatile program that can handle videos and images. It also has great integration with Mac services.
- ACDSee Photo Managers
- For $50 you can get some great organizing and sharing functions in ACDSee. However, it's interface and editing abilities aren't up to par.
- Aperture
- Aimed at professional photographers who use Macs, Aperture can make many image edits (like levels and histograms), change the image's information (metadata), and includes a beautiful full screen interface. The interface's text, however, is quite small.
- Lightroom
- If you are a professional photographer on Windows, Lightroom is the image managing application of choice, though it only has basic sharpening and metadata presets that cannot be edited
'Preclick
Preclick is a digital photo organizer. It has an extremely small footprint Very easy to understand and easy to use. Directories can be searched, pictures will be reduced for email., CD burning, slideshow, some correction tools, and the best red-eye tool on the market,
