Photo Organisers

This section is devoted to software capable of creating a logical, searchable photo collection. Most organisers have some form of tagging, so photos can be grouped into categories ("People", "Places", "Friends" etc), and often they include some basic photo manipulation tools such as cropping and red-eye removal. Other common features are emailing, sharing, and printing facilities. The most popular products include Adobe® Photoshop® Album Starter Edition (which is free), the organiser built into Adobe® Photoshop® Elements, and Picasa (also free) from Google.

Other photo organisers

  • CompuPic - Fast visual browser with all the usual features. Also Pro and Express.
  • Dorothea - Photo indexing system mixed in with a web gallery.
  • Extensis Portfolio - Professional quality visual database.
  • FotoStation - Not the cheapest, but plenty of features. Mac and Windows.
  • FxFoto - Triscapes organiser and photo fixer. Three versions from free upwards.
  • Fresh View - Free organiser for staggering range of multimedia file types.
  • IMatch - Sophisticated image management tool. Free trial download.
  • iPhoto - Apple’s Mac-only free-download offering.
  • iView - Interesting media cataloguer for Mac and Windows.
  • LEADViEW - Image editing software with photo album functionality.
  • Lightroom - Adobe's product designed primarily for professional photographers to import, select, develop and showcase large volumes of digital images.
  • MagicMedia - An image file explorer, which very usefully can produce thumbnails from numerous image file formats, including video. Very handy for those with a lot of mixed media files. It also has some basic editing functionality for photos and video.
  • PicaJet - Fast and attractive photo organiser in a similar vein to Picasa.
  • PhotoArch - Slightly rough set of PHP scripts to front-end a photo database.
  • Photo Dub Album - Another creator of talking photo albums..
  • Photo Organizer - Photo Organizer is multi-user photo management tool that was designed for professional photographers. It offers a searchable photo database that supports photo version control, client management, photo submission history, EXIF, IPTC, XML, and XMP, user quotas, a datebook, and printing labels and colour brochures in PDF and PS formats. It uses PostgreSQL, features a Web interface, and uses ImageMagick and DCRAW tohandle over a hundred image formats including several RAW formats. A grown-up system, but free via the GNU General Public Licence (GPL).