Photo Browser and Zoner Photo Studio Software for Windows

Bix Photo Book
$25 - Outerspace Software

Bix Photo Book lets you browse your pictures just like a real photo album... in 3D on your computer! The result can be exported as a movie file for further processing in DVD authoring tools. Your photo book is fully personalizable. Special effects include: smooth 3D page turning animations, various 3D views, zooming flipping and rotation of pictures, realtime filter effects with pixel shaders, transparency effects.

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STOIK Imagic
$49 - STOIK Imaging

This unique application combines functions of thumbnail browser, photo viewer, image and video editor. Imagic 3.5 features very fast thumbnail browsing, comprehensive set of image enhancement and editing tools including Auto Red Eye, color and exposure compensation, powerful printing functions, slideshow, web album, and puzzle generation tools, support of RAW files, easy-to-use video editing.

Imagic is loaded with dozens of artistic effects to help you in creative work with your
photos. You can convert photos to painting imitations, create calendars, greeting cards, create slideshows or instatly prepare and publish a Web photo album. You even can create puzzle games from your photos which you can play yourself or send to others. Imagic has particularly powerful set of photo correction and enhancement tools.

Some advanced features worth to be mentioned separately:

- Autodownload wizard to get photos from camera to proper storage locations
- Powerful Rename All
- Easily add and view comments to photos
- Generate and upload Web album using photo comments.
- Generate greeting cards, calendars, slideshow
- Create and edit videos with effects, transitions, narration, captions.
- Fully automatic redeye removal
- Adjust colors, exposure, and contrast automatically or manually
- Painting, text and gradient filling tools
- Over 20 effects and wizards to turn your photo into an artistic masterpiece
- Add artistic frames, mats and edges
- Generate and play jigsaw, mosaic (fifteen), and switch puzzle games from your photos

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EasyWallpaper
$19.95 - Timo Kosiol - Softwareconsulting

Your have a lot of beautiful wallpapers but can you can't decide which you want to use? Let EasyWallpaper decide for you! EasyWallpaper is the ultimate desktop wallpaper management solution. An extract what the program does:

New wallpaper on Windows startup:
EasyWallpaper can set a new desktop wallpaper every time on windows startup. Now the Windows start is exciting again. Which wallpaper will be set at this time?

New wallpapers in specific intervals:
To change the wallpaper on windows startup isn't enough? No problem. Configure in which interval EasyWallpaper is to be refreshed the Windows desktop.

Desktop calendar:
EasyWallpaper displays a convenient calendar including week numbering on the Windows desktop.

Category management:
Easywallpaper manages the wallpapers in categories. So you can organize your images and you don't lose the survey of your wallpapers.

EasyWallpaper screensaver:
You would like to use your favorite images as screensaver? With EasyWallpaper it is no problem.

Wallpapers in different formats:
EasyWallpaper supports the mostly used graphic standards like bmp, gif, jpeg or png. Additionally, with EasyWallpaper you can use html documents, too.

Slide show:
Use EasyWallpaper as a photo browser! With EasyWallpaper you can create full screen slide shows of your favorite images and photos.

Starfield wallpaper:
With EasyWallpaper you can conjure a moving starfield on your desktop. Make your Windows unique with such a wallpaper!

Find new wallpapers:
EasyWallpaper helps you to find new, beautiful Windows desktop wallpapers.

Add wallpapers easy and fast:
EasyWallpaper offers many simple ways to add new wallpapers in categories. I.e. by drag and drop or right mouse click (windows explorer).

These and many more features make Easywallpaper a professional wallpaper manager for Windows. Check it out! The program will please you, your friends and your fellows.

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Photolightning photo software
$39.95 - Photolightning Corporation

Photolightning is the ultimate photo software for both home and business digital camera users. It's the easiest and fastest way to print, email, and enhance your digital photos. Photolightning is so simple that even beginners can make great photo prints, send emails without attachments, create slide shows, and make enhancements to a set of 24 photos in five minutes or less.

Photolightning has the following key features:

Auto-detects your camera, downloads your photos, and provides a large preview for easy comparison.

Send great looking photo emails without using attachments.

Have confidence to make perfect photo prints at home using standard templates from major manufacturers which minimize paper usage and errors. Makes standard sized prints and complete album pages. Print preview enables you to zoom and pan to compose your prints.

Create photo albums with the Organize feature.

Backup photos to CD/DVD.

Photo enhancements include red eye reduction, cropping, auto-levels, auto-contrast, fix backlighting, add flash, reduce flash, brightness/contrast, hue, saturation, sharpen, unsharp mask, black and white, sepia, paint effects, fix out-of-focus photos, crop, sharpen, boost colors, make gray skies blue, levels and many more.

Batch processing can resize (including percent, fit inside rectangle, target size (kb) and resample method), change format, add text and graphic captions/watermarks, remove exif data, rename, and re-timestamp -- with just two clicks.

Reduce photos and automatically insert into Word and PowerPoint. Enhance quality and compose photos for eBay.

Has a lightning fast thumbnail browser with Photo History view to see all of the photos on your disk in chronological order regardless of how they are organized.

Creates HTML slide shows to view on your machine, email to friends, or publish to a web site.

Automatically reduce photos and post them to weblogs with just two clicks.

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Alteros 3D
$29.95 - Lighttek Software

Alteros 3D is a 3D/2D graphic viewer and multimedia player with a customizable interface. The software supports any 3D graphic file types (3DS, MAX, VRML, TrueSpace, LightWave and many other formats), as well as 2D graphical files (PSD, PNG, TIF, JPEG, BMP, GIF), Video, Audio files and DVD. A built-in text editor allows you to work with TXT and RTF files. Alteros 3D can also display HTML files and other documents via OLE interface (requires Internet Explorer).

The program interface can be easily changed with the help of the skins. Alteros 3D has its own desktop file format: ADESK. Using ADESK files you can create custom graphical interfaces with buttons to launch different programs, and open files and folders. ADESK files can be used as an Alteros3D start up interface, as well as a user's CDROM interface, if the program is used as an Autorun shell for a CD.

Alteros 3D allows you to open any number of documents simultaneously.

Fullscreen and Slideshow modes, image editing procedures, different navigation options, a history list and many other useful functions for working with pictures, photos, texts and other files are available.

Key features:
- Thumbnails for 2D and 3D graphic files.
- DVD-video, Video and Audio files playback.
- 3dm, 3dmf, 3ds, asc, ase, c4d, cob, dwg (limited support), dxb, dxf, geo, iv, lif, lvs, lw, lwo, max (limited support), md2, md3, mdl, mts, ndo, obj, objf, off, peo, prj, pro, rax, scn, spx, stl, tim, wrl, x and xsi 3D-formats supported.
- Copying 3D image rendering result in clipboard.
- Rotation and scaling of 3D objects. Alterations of lighting, transparency, material
type and display mode of 3D objects, as well as many other settings for 3D scenes.
- Bmp, dib, emf, gif, ico, jif, jpe, jpeg, jpg, pcx, rle, tga, wmf, psd, tiff, png, ppm and other image formats supported.
- Zoom in/out modes, screen floating.
- Set any picture as Wallpaper.
- Slideshow mode.
- Graphical effects.
- integration with www.brodyaga.com

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Zoner Photo Studio Professional
$84.95 - Zoner, Inc.

Zoner Photo Studio 9 is the new way to manage your photos. Have you ever bought photo software and found it?s missing something? With Zoner Photo Studio 9, this will never happen. With Zoner Photo Studio 9 Professional you get an all-in-one photos program for every step from acquiring photos to readying them to organizing them to sharing them.

* 16 bits per color channel
* New GPS support - unique worldwide!
* Great companion to Adobe Photoshop

Whats New in Version 9?

GPS Support: See Where Photos Were Taken
GPS navigation devices have also become a common part of everyday life. Thats why Zoner Photo Studio now lets you assign and make use of GPS coordinates for photos. You can assign GPS data automatically from a GPS devices track log if you wish, and you can use an on-line map of your choice for display. Knowing exactly where a photo was taken gives it a whole new dimension, which you will appreciate no matter whether you use your camera for to

16-bit processing
is not just limited to a few operations; instead, it affects the vast majority of image edits and import/output filters.

Easier Batch Photo Editing
Its always been easy to process many photos at once in Zoner Photo Studio. But the latest version takes this even further. The old batch operations window has been replaced with a new Batch Filter that is more flexible and easier to use. Now in just a single step, you can set up any group of edits you want, in the order you want, and immediately apply them to all selected photos. No resaving between the edits in the batch means less loss of quality, as does 16-bit support.

DVD Slideshows
Tabletop DVD players have by now become an almost guaranteed part of homes, and DVD recorders are pushing out old VHS video. We are also seeing the forceful arrival of high-quality wide-screen TVs. So photo viewing is not limited to just computer screens any more.

And much more ... see www.zoner.com

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