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This German proverb means: “Order is non-negotiable”. I’ve use it because Germans are considered to be the main experts in this kind of thing. A phrase not very in accord with modern reality, but that’s another story. At the core this rule is absolutely right. With digital cameras you are able to produce much more photos than with film, and it means you’re going to be looking for particular shots in a huge collection, which is no trivial matter. The growth of digital photography to a wide community of amateurs has brought about the development of a new class of software: image managers. These programs look like a hybrid of file manager, database engine and image viewer/editor. Some programs like Adobe Photoshop have more editing functions, other like XNview - have more for file management, but all three components are present.
Transfer, find, organize, edit, print, and share images, all with this easy-to-use product. Watch Picasa automatically organize all your pictures into elegant albums by date. Having all your photos in one place means no more time wasted searching for folders or files. The program works with JPEG, GIF, BMP, PSD, and movie files and is compatible with most digital cameras; it detects your USB driver and imports pictures into albums. Editing tools include cropping (standard or custom), removal of red-eye, and enhancing--even switching from color to black and white. Create slide shows set to your MP3s. Integration with Picasa's free Hello instant picture-sharing software lets you share hundreds of photos in seconds and chat in real time. E-mail photos with Picasa's built-in client to take the guesswork out of compressing images, and order photo-lab quality prints or print at home with no mistakes. You can also make instant backups to CD (or to other hard drives) of your photo collections, to organize your photos using labels and stars (just like with Gmail), to write captions for all pictures, and to organize videos as well as pictures. Picasa stands out from some of the common flood of image managers with some interesting features. And for one feature alone this program (together with its developers’ team) merits a place in Hall of Fame. I mean the ability to scan all the folders on your computer to find misplaced images. Indeed, some photos I had given up for lost were found.  Introducing CompuPic Pro, the fastest, most powerful digital-content manager available. It has support for keywording, searching, Favorites, and EXIF, plus full file management, making organizing your photos a snap. The fully integrated viewer instantly opens almost any file and provides amazing quality and instant zooming. Apply image effects and eye-catching borders, or enhance your photos using precision adjustments such as color, cropping, resizing, and rotating. Use the Advanced Batch Conversions to quickly convert or modify thousands of photos. Share your photos with integrated photo e-mailing, the Web page gallery generator, or by uploading to your favorite photo-sharing Web site. Create picture CDs right from your desktop, and view stunning slide shows featuring more than 140 high-quality transition effects. Full JPEG 2000 support, the all-new Border function, more than a dozen image effects, more than 25 new slide-show transitions, improved cropping and resizing, an integrated address book for e-mailing photos, and dozens of new supported file types. 
Nero PhotoShow Deluxe 5 is everything you need to bring your photos to life. It has easy to use interface and tools. You can create fantastic PhotoShows with music, captions and effects - 88 One Click Styles help you tell your story (over 200 clip art to choose from). Burn PhotoShows onto DVDs to watch on TV. The product comes with one year free subscription to your own personal web page to share your PhotoShows with family and friends. Includes video clip editing and sharing features - 50% more music from great artists (over 400 songs). Windows Vista ready. Burn DVDs of PhotoShows to watch on most DVD players. Archive photos on CDs.  MediaTicker is a fun, scrolling ticker that delivers your local digital photos and remote RSS feeds directly onto your desktop. Unlike other newsreaders, MediaTicker gives you a visual perspective on your RSS feeds by displaying content in both text and thumbnail image format. Now you can add the latest news, sports, headlines, cartoons and photos from almost any site to your MediaTicker. Web sites like Flickr, Yahoo News Photos, and MSNBC provide RSS feeds of images and thumbnail images with links. Add your own photos to flickr.com then tell your family and friends to get MediaTicker to stay up to date with all your latest photos automatically.  Browser is free but powerful image and thumbnail viewer and browser allowing to preview folders with a large number of images. You can change look and feel of the program and save your interface layout. 14 language localizations and power features make iBrowser the best choice for every day use. Among these features are customable interface layouts, advanced memory management, slideshow, format defining by signature, full screen view, animated images autoplay, copying to clipboard, intelligent large files support, set as wallpaper function, windows shell extension. All popular graphic formats are supported - jpeg/jpg/jpeg-2000/exif, tiff/tif, gif, pic, dxf, tga, pcx, icon. iBrowser is an ad-supported freeware. No third party adware components are used. iBrowser doesn't collect or transfer any information about the user.  MediaPro is a digital asset management and cataloging solution essential for photographers and other creative professionals. It enables you to create a customized, centralized and searchable repository through which you can manage a wide variety and high volume of digital files. MediaPro supports more than 100 different file formats including images, audio, video, fonts, illustrations, DTP, HTML and digital camera RAW files (including DNG, Nikon, Canon, and Kodak). Pro photographers and other creative professionals using MediaPro can quickly and easily import, annotate, organize, archive, search and distribute their digital files, shortening time from capture to distribution, thereby saving time and lowering costs.  The company ACD Systems with its well-known product ACDSee was a pioneer in this type of software. Their program has a long history: The first versions were issued in the good old DOS times. ACDSee started as a universal image viewer for all the existing graphic formats. At that time in this area chaos ruled and each developer provided his own format and own viewing program. ACD Systems solved this problem once and for all. After this revolutionary gap ACDSee grew from an easy way of viewing images to the powerful all-in-one toolset it is today. With its embedded image editor the program covers almost everything you need for enhancing your shots, but it cannot be compared directly with Adobe Photoshop, they are from different weight (and price) groups. The last version was issued in autumn 2006 - version 9, but I haven’t tested it, yet. I have version 8.1 installed on my computer, and I can call it “a success”. Previous versions 5, 6 and 7 were somewhat sluggish and sometimes provided a few nasty surprises: sudden crashes, the occasional “blue screen”. In this case I don’t recommend you install any older version than 8. ACDSee creates its own database where it stores information (including thumbnails) about images not only on your harddisk, but on any removable media like CDs. With a powerful indexing system you can group and search your images within a flexible set of criteria. As a programmer with a lot of experience in database development I can affirm: this is really good work! It includes a powerful toolset for photo enhancement, and batch image processing, action sequences are also possible. For example, you can define resize, correct exposure, insert keywords and anything else for hundreds of images, press a button and then go to get a cup of coffee: ACDSee will do it all for you.
This free software helps 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, including a thumbnail 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 create HTML albums. This easy-to-use software supports 86 multimedia formats, including JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, PSD, Photo CD, TGA, MP3, MIDI, MOD, AVI, and MPEG. The latest version features external-editor-program support.  PicaJet offers direct import from your camera, image sharing via e-mail or Web gallery, automatic photo enhancement, personal ratings and categories, as well as printing features. The photo organizer allows you to view your images by rating, keyword, date, or timeline and you can categorize your images by simple drag and drop. In addition, it offers convenient editing features to correct red-eye, cropping, image sharpening, and level adjustment. Additional features include direct CD/DVD burning, an image search engine with support for EXIF/IPTC/XMP data, slideshow maker, and a tool to generate a Web gallery from templates.  Webshots Desktop is a free photo- and video-management application that combines tools for managing and sharing your own personal photos and videos with wallpaper and screensaver functionality. The latest version lets you easily organize and upload all your photos and videos right from your desktop. Now you can drag and drop photos to Webshots from Windows, search your Webshots collection and update your albums in a flash. You can also download the optional Webshots Toolbar for Internet Explorer. The Webshots Toolbar lets you search Webshots or the web from your browser window, upload photos and videos, access your member homepage with one click and for fun, you can highlight any word on the web and search its photo and video results. As a member of Webshots, you can browse one of the web's largest photo- and video-sharing communities and use the web's best search to find amazing images and videos. Only Webshots enables its members to share photos and videos together with their family and friends through online albums, member homepages, mobile uploads and custom prints and gifts. The described programs are just tools to organize your photo archive. It is a reason to read an article "Organize - Getting to Grips with Image Management" by Neil Creek to define a strategy of archiving. If you are going on an adventurous trip, three necessary things you should have with you are binoculars to be aware of enemy coming from far away, sunglasses to protect your eyes and camera to take photos. Photos are the only thing through which we always remember the happiness and bitterness of life. Photos can be taken of anything like someone costumes, her costume jewelry, shoes or watches etc. you can also make videos of wedding programs or tommy hilfiger clothes exhibition. Last update: 18-03-2008 14:12
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