Photo Management Software

Photo Management Software helps you locate and organize all the photos on your computer using keywords and categories, I took roughly 3,000 pictures with my film camera from 1972 until the present. I took 350 pictures from one vacation this year. The use of digital cameras will geometrically increase the number of pictures you take. Photo Management software gives you the ability to store these pictures so you can identify and find them when you want them.

The software reviewed below are listed for their photo management ability and not for the ability to edit your photos They may contain some basic photo editing capabilities.

ACDSee Photo Manager 2009
ACDSee Photo Manager 2009 lets you quickly view and find photos, fix flaws, and share your favorites through e-mail, prints and free online albums. Drag and drop photos into Windows® file folders, add keywords and ratings, edit your metadata, and create your own categories. Assign images to as many categories as you like without taking up more space on your computer. Rename, rotate and resize groups of photos at once.

ACDSee Photo Manager 2009 has basic photo editing capabilities. You can also create stunning slide shows.

Cost: $49.99

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Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2
This free download from Adobe covers the basics of photo editing and sharing. It is easer to view, find files, and share your photo memories.

• Find any photo in a snap with automatic organization
• Fix common photo flaws
• Easily share your memories.

This is not a time-limited or photo-limited software.

Cost: Free

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CompuPic Standard
CompuPic helps you organize and edit your digital images. You can browse files on your computer visually faster than any other program.

CompuPic offers the following:

• Copies and moves files faster than Windows® Explorer
• Full file management
• Aquire pictures from any digital camera or scanner
• Fastest Visual Browsing
• Catalog CD and disks with offline albums

CompuPic has basic photo editing capabilities.

Free, fully functional trial is available for 15 days.

Cost: $39.95

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Picajet
Picajet is a digital photo management system and image cataloging software that has a bunch of neat features for the picture junkie who can't take enough pictures as well as the occasional photographer.

Picajet features and benefits are:

• Organize your image categories with no limitations on nesting depth!
• Fast photo indexing
• Assign images to different categories using icon sets
• Supports several dynamic categories, which allow you to check the status of entire photo collection
• Works with huge databases
• Offline-archive organization
• Automated import process
• Powerful search. Manage images through several albums
• View images as timeline

The software includes a photo editor with levels, sharpen, sepia, and red-eye removal. My favorite feature is the offline-archive organization where you can back up your photos to a CD or DVD. A thumbnail of your picture remains on your computer. When you click on this thumbnail it will tell you which CD or DVD to use to find the picture.

Cost: $47.95

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Picasa 3
Picasa is a free software download from Google. Picasa will help you:

• Find the pictures you forgot you had
• Move and rename pictures from inside Picasa
• Make an album
• Add a star rating to any photo you love
• Keep one picture in multiple albums

Picasa also gives you the ability to edit your pictures. There are basic fixes and 12 new visual effects you can apply. A handy feature is the ability to write captions that stay with the picture. You can also make a slide show to share your pictures.

Cost: Free

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