Digital Photo Software to Organize, Fix, and Share Pictures: Windows

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom was developed with photographers in mind. From organization to developing to printing, Lightroom makes the process simple.

Corel Snapfire is free digital photo software to help you organize, enhance, and share your pictures and video clips

Adobe Photoshop Album provides a fast, easy way for digital photo collectors to organize, fix, share, and archive pictures without a lot of involvement. The software is easy to learn and fulfills the most essential needs of amateur photo collectors.

Formerly known as Jasc After Shot, Jasc Paint Shop Photo Album has a new name and new features for its fourth release. This version adds Video CD burning capability, Adjust Wizard, Thinify tool, frames, edges, borders, and automatic optimization of emailed images.

Ulead Photo Explorer Pro is an inexpensive thumbnail image browser and organizer with exceptional Web sharing and HTML output options.

Firegraphic is a nice image management solution for Windows that offers a few unique features, but doesn't stand out overall. If your main objectives are printing images and burning CD archives, give it a look.

Featured Download - Rapid image viewing and thumbnail generation, create image albums and share them via e-mail, search on a number of criteria including "looks like", support for over 30 formats, more. $39.95 US.

Featured Download - Digital photo companion software allows you to print muliple photos on a single page, create photo album Web pages, organize and view your photo collection. $19.95 US. Trial version available.

"PicaJet enables you to import your photos quickly and easily from your digital camera, scanner or image files, and then manage, view, enhance, print and share a lifetime of precious memories."

Picasa is free photo management software that scans your computer for picture files and automatically organizes them into albums, then allows you to edit and share them.

StudioLine Photo Edition is an unusual approach to digital photo management. Its innovative editing tools make it worth investigating, though a slow and cluttered workspace mars the package. Still, it's worth a look. A free basic edition is also offered.

Organize and manage your digital photos. Browse thumbnails, add annotations, group pictures into categories, catalog CDs and DVDs of images, create autorun CDs, and create thumbnail photo galleries for the Web. Shareware - $29US

"Bosco's Foto Ensemble is a new, easy way to collect, annotate, organize, and store your digital fotos. Foto Ensemble runs on Mac OS X, Mac OS Classic, and Windows, allowing you to easily share your fotos with friends who use other platforms." Base product is free.

View, organize, edit and print photos from your digital camera. Share your photos through Web albums and slide shows. Order prints over the Web.

Image cataloging software especially designed for large image collections stored on multiple CDs or removable drives. Features CD naming support, smart image registration, menu driven image selection, thumbnail views, and slide shows. $49.95 US

PicWise is an image viewer and collection manager aimed at photographers and others who have built up a collection of digital photographs or other digital multimedia and want to manage or better enjoy their collection.

The free software from FotoTime photo-sharing site allows you to organize your pictures, create photo albums and upload your albums to the Web.

"Browse, organize, manipulate, e-mail and publish image collections. You can transform an image into black and white, rotate it, increase and decrease brightness and contrast, smoothen, sharpen, crop and apply other effects. Built in is a Digital Camera Wizard to quickly import your photo's straight from the digital camera." Shareware - US$22.

Organize your photos into albums, add captions, titles, dates and keywords, send albums by email, and build Web sites from your photo albums.

Fun and simple photo editing, text handling, special effects, and photo projects.

"ArcSoft PhotoBase 3 offers the power and intuitiveness to serve as your single multimedia management and presentation-making application. Full file previewing lets you quickly locate and identify what you need, while conventional ArcSoft album functionality gives you the freedom to create custom multimedia collections from files located anywhere on your system or removable media."

Download digital photos from your camera, and preview, add captions, enhance, print, and email the pictures.

"PhotosReViewer is a digital photography workbench to: Organize digital pictures, create collections, tag pictures with keywords, create slideshows, create Web photos gallery, resize photos, crop part of an image with constraints." Freeware.

Designed for amateur photographers, this software lets you bring your photographs into your computer, enhance them and create high quality prints, multimedia slide shows, photo screen savers, and more. $49.95US + shipping and handling for a CD-ROM containing software, manual, and bonus programs. A more advanced version is available for $89.95US.

SnapTough helps you touch up and organize your digital photos.

"SureThing Photo is the new way to find, fix, share and preserve all of your digital photos and images." This version is free. SureThing Photo Plus offers more features for a price.

"STOIK Imagic combines functions of a photo browser, viewer, image and video editor - everything you need for manipulating your digital photos, from archiving to correction, printing, and generation of slideshow, web album, or even a puzzle game."

"FxFoto automaticaly imports photographs from your digital camera and arranges them in chronological folders... FxFoto also lets you annotate photographs and arrange them into impressive collages and slide shows. Touch up photos with simple Red Eye and Blemish removers. Crop, frame, add text, accents and even drawing to your photographs." Free Standard Edition; US$30 Deluxe Edition.

"Zoner Photo Studio helps you acquire, edit, manage, and publish your digital images."