Reviewer, 2008-10-13 08:47:00

Fast photo and video browser, with folder, calendar and tags browsing modes. Includes Dark Room with a set of enhancement tools and RAW converter, panorama stitching, Improvement Wizard.

Pros: In these days of bulk digital images you need something that can clean them up, import or organize the stuff that may be stored all over several directories on your machine. This freeware program allows you to import, organize, automatically enhance and share photos and videos. Fast indexing algorithm scans thousands of image and video files in few minutes. There are several alternatives for browsing through the media files thus located. The options are to use the folder browser, calendar browser or the tags browser. Checking through picture by file names, by dates taken or by the tags used in naming the picture can be utilized by the respective browsers. It is possible to implement corrections of a batch of photos. This automatic wizard can take care of under-exposure, noise, red eye and noise removal. A complete editor named dark room tool has a whole lot of edit tools and several export options. Dark Room tool offers a complete set of enhancement tools and export options. Even when you do not like the edit effects, there’s nothing lost. The original is not modified while the output is saved as a enhancement parameters associated with that image.

Optimized output quality is claimed to be 1.5 times better/smaller file than other JPEG converters. Distribute images through the built in e-mail tool within the application or through a CD or even a slide show created through the package. These can be auto-run, create an executable or save as screensaver. You can use music as you choose. Web albums created can be saved locally or do FTP to a website. Panoramic photo creation is done automatically, The application can recognize related photos, reject the ones that do not match and create a seamless view.

Cons: No particular problems noticed.

Overall the set of functionality is good, it is easy to use and rates a 4 star level.