The Bottom Line
Preclick Lifetime Organizer is a user-friendly, inexpensive tool to organize and manage digital photo collections, but only if you're dedicated enough to spend time populating the "PhotoBacks."
Pros
- Very easy; no menus, everything is up front
- Inexpensive: US$19.95 for Lifetime, basic is free
- Keyboard shortcuts for easy navigation
Cons
- Direct camera acquisition not implemented
- Can't view EXIF information
- No zoom
Description
- Add photos from folders on your computer to organize, print, and share them.
- Navigate photos in a filmstrip that can be sorted by roll, date, title, rating, or folder.
- Add information such as rating, title, caption, subjects, event, place, date to the PhotoBack.
- PhotoBack data is embedded into the file, though it is unclear what other products can utilize it.
- Previous PhotoBack data is remembered, and can be quickly added through a pull-down menu.
- Delete, copy, move, and shrink pictures; view images full screen; view rolls in a slide show.
- Rotate, crop, fix red eye, fix color & tone, make B&W, make sepia; undo or revert all edits.
- Print photos with title, caption, and date in standard-size layouts or number-per-page options.
- Order prints through dotPhoto, upload to a dotPhoto online album, or email optimized pictures.
- Email support for Outlook, Outlook Express, Lotus Notes, Eudora, AOL 7.0, Yahoo! Mail, and Hotmail.
Guide Review - Preclick Lifetime Photo Organizer 2.0 for Windows
Before going digital, were you the type of person who immediately labeled a new roll of photos and put them into albums? Or are your photos stashed in envelopes and boxes that you'd be lucky to find today? If you're the former type of person, Lifetime Organizer is for you. If the latter, it won't make you organized.
The software requires no menus and is extremely easy to learn. You'll want to have descriptive folder names for your photos before you import them, as this becomes the title of the "roll" when the folder is imported to Photo Organizer. It offers a few quick fixes and sharing options, but this is basically a photo organizer, and you do need to invest time populating your PhotoBacks with info to really make this work for you.
