Digital Photo Cataloging and Developing
Workflow Software for Organizing, Managing, Processing, Editing and Sharing Your Digital Images
If you take a lot of digital photos, having a good photo manager software program is important. Although various photo services offer free downloadable photo album features, you need to take a serious look at the various programs.
There are some excellent photo cataloging, processing and editing software programs that will streamline your workflow. The top products are Adobe Photoshop Lightroomand ACDSee Pro are ideal for serious photo enthusiasts who need software that can help them manage their workflow and catalog and process an ever-growing image collection. Products like Photoshop Elements and ACDSee Photo Manager are best suited for those who want to catalog their images and edit and share them, but do not need advanced features found in Lightroom or ACDsee Pro but are more interested in creative projects such as scrapbooks, photo books and calendars, photo greeting cards, slide shows and more. Here are my favorite programs:
For Serious Photo Enthusiasts
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is THE software for professionals and serious photo enthusiast. It streamlines your workflow and will make the importing, organizing and processing of digital photo collections a breeze. Plus it offers excellent RAW format support and nondestructive editing. read review »
ACDSee Pro 6 is another great image management program for serious enthusiasts who have a lot of photos to catalog and process. It offers non-destructive editing of RAW and JPEG files and it makes asset management easy; its tabbed interface follows a typical workflow: Manage, View, Process, and Online... read review »
For the Novice to Intermediate Photo Enthusiast
ACDSee Photo Manager software excels in organizing, searching and retrieving photos, as well as in creating digital photo albums and slide shows to burn to CD/DVD. In this new release, users get an enhanced interface, even faster viewing, organizing, enhancing and sharing capabilities. ACDSee leads the pack with a feature-filled program that is »
Photoshop Elements 11 has integrated its excellent photo organizer within its editing program, eliminating the need to buy separate programs for editing and organizing...read review »
Corel Paintshop Pro X5 is a solid photo organize and editor that also nicely integrates social media sharing...read review »