An Austin based company, Photodex, makes my favorite image management program–CompuPic Pro. My brother in law, Cy, introduced me to this program. I have to admit he had to install the darn thing forcibly on my computer and now I can’t live without it. It easily manages images of every size (Adobe’s Album program choked on the high resolution scans from negatives because of their size). The darn thing is quick, much faster than other viewers. You can tell that people who’ve really worked with digital pictures created the thing. For example, it is easy to rotate the images that come from your digital camera with a single keystroke. Another feature I like is that it has standard image sizes built into the resize function so a single keystroke chooses the size of the image. I’ve used the feature that allows you to quickly create a web album for pictures of family functions–sure makes it easy to share. The software also has a reasonably competent image editor for macro edits like changing the levels, running filters, cropping, etc. For full image editing you still need something a bit more full featured. If you work with digital images a lot, download the free trial version try it out, then buy it and support this Austin company.
