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Random notes from yet another Finnish nerd. This blog reflects mostly my life with computers and stuff, rather than my real life.
May 14, 2004
In seek of the ultimate archiving system for my digital photos I went through a bunch of image viewer/archiving software.
Many of these applications provided support for email and online printing / album hosting services, such as ShutterFly. While I don't find these features interesting, they might be of great value for some users.
- Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 seems to be the one best software available. However, it's most usefull features such as calendar view, collections (i.e. virtual albums) and backup to CD are only available in the purchased version ($50).
- ACDSee 6.0, the long time image viewer champion keeps getting better and better. New features of version 6 are backup to CD, browse by calendar or categories and rating. $50.
- Paint Shop Photo Album 5. Jasc Software has a long history on Windows image viewer / editor business. Their album application's features include: CD burn, import from cell phone and panorama stitch.
- Picasa. Feature highlight is Blogger image upload.
- Canon ZoomBrowser EX. The user interface has some nice effects on dynamically zooming the thumb nail size according to the number of images in the folder. This package also includes PhotoStictch software for making panoramo pictures out of multiple shots. Otherwise the software seems buggy, slow and limited in features. Notable shortcomings are lack of backup and no browsing by calendar.
- digikam. This one's only for KDE/Linux but contains a lot of the same features as bleeding edge windows counterparts.
Many of these applications provided support for email and online printing / album hosting services, such as ShutterFly. While I don't find these features interesting, they might be of great value for some users.