PicaJet FX 2.5.0.495
License - Shareware
Publisher - PicaJet.Com

PicaJet is a powerful, feature-rich, but highly customizable and convenient digital photo management and image database software that will efficiently organize your fast-growing digital image collection.

Unlimited category-nesting levels
Fast photo indexing
Assign images to different categories using icon sets
Dynamic categories
Works with huge databases
Offline-archive organization
Storage of image descriptions inside files (XMP, IPTC, EXIF)
Batch resize, batch convert, batch rename
Manage images through several albums
Save photos to CD and DVD as a web-based photo-album
Creating an attractive photo gallery using templates



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As a well-known and popular digital organization and photo sharing software, ACDSee was released it new version ACDSee Photo Manager 2009 lately in October. ACD systems improved this powerful photo manager every detail to bring an efficient, convenient and professional experience for the enthusiasts. Let's look into some of its highlights and find out what on earth it brings to us.

Designed for both amateur and professional users
Whether process family photos or design elements for creative projects, you will take advantages of its flexible, optimized reactive speed and affordably price. Based on the consistent features of digital image viewing, managing, editing, and sharing, new features designed to deal with users’ growing digital images. You will not worry about wasting time when you organize and share your memories with families and friends. The designers thought everything for you.

Complex searches
Now you can build a complex search with the Search Pane ACDSee 2009. We can search fold name, file name, location and metadata. Without doubt, save your searches could save much time if you have a huge amount of digital photos to organize. You just need to set the search content and store it or choose a file property for future use. Read the rest of this entry »

In addition to Chrome browser, Google also released a new version of image management software Picasa 3, but only the English beta version is available now.

A new feature in Picasa 3 beta is "sync to web" which allows you to easily upload whole albums to the Google albums. Another new feature called "name tags" in Picasa Web Albums that helps you quickly label your friends in all your snapshots. And the new explore page allow users browse the public content on the site.

More features you can view the following video. You can download Picasa 3 beta HERE.

Adobe Systems release the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 official version, claiming that this is an essential tool for photographer management, editing, and digital photo display today.

Lightroom 2 compared to the first generation version of a large-scale improvement, such as support for dual-displays, non-destructive image partial amendment (Local Adjustment Brush), a powerful search capability, improved management tools (Library Filter Bar), and tightly integrated with Photoshop CS3, and so on.

Lightroome 2 also strengthens the technology of digital camera RAW support, with Camera Raw 4.5, DNG Profile Editor, such as digital cameras to more than 190 kinds of support.

Especially, this is Adobe's first time to support Mac OS X 10.5 64-bit and Windows Vista 64-bit operating system products.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 is currently available in English, French, German, Japanese four languages,  the new retail price is $ 299, and registered users upgrade $99, 30-day free trial.

You can download Lightroom 2 here: English Version French Version German Version Japanese Version

I searched hard long time for a good photo tool to manage my growing digital photos collection. Fortunately, Picasa from Google which is really a cool thing helps me.

Once photos are imported by Picasa, it can do the thumbnails generation and indexing in the folders. It lets you view them as a timeline, slideshow, or list view, too. Compared with ACDSee, the most popular and powerful photo manager, Picasa is easier to install, faster to view, lovelier user interface.

Picasa also includes additional features such as cropping, red-eye removal, you can do these just by a few clicks. If you just want to add some easy effects to images, Picasa is good and advisably. It will keep you far away from the perplexing functions of Adobe Photoshop.

The important highlight is that you can easily share photos with others through email, prints and on the web, even blog.

Picasa Web Albums is the fastest and easiest way to put your photos on the web. Just select the photos in Picasa that you want to share and click to publish. In seconds, those photos will be on your own web page, ready to share with the people you know.

If you're looking forward to post multiple photos onto your blog, Picasa's "BlogThis!" button does the hard work for you by automatically transferring selected photos directly to Blogger.

It is worth mentioning that with a Google account you can login the Web Albums directly, and edit your blog from Picasa.

Also, if you want photo printing, you can pick photos straight out of Picasa and upload them directly to your favorite online photo finishers to order prints and other products.