Phototheca - beautiful and free cataloger images
Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Category viewers and organizers of home photo collections have long been well established and has its recognized leaders including Picasa, FastStone Image Viewer, XnView and so on. However, new applications such specialization continue to emerge, and we consider it necessary to acquaint you with them. Especially because some of the newcomers are obtained very interesting. For example, the application Phototheca It combines a beautiful interface, excellent speed and a decent set of features.
After installing the program offers import existing images on the computer. This can be done with a standard folder selection dialog or simply drag and drop folders in the window. Thereafter Phototheca show all the added folder in the form of beautiful icons. If you move your mouse on one of them, the program will immediately show some of the images contained therein. Thus, one can easily understand that there is no need to open the folder.
On the left we see the library panel, which contains links to the various options for displaying your collection. For example, you can display showing folders of files, adding time, last opened, marked and so on. There is a display of images on the time of their creation in the calendar grid, or in the form of a timeline, which is very useful when searching for images for the desired period.
It is very useful that the program is still at the stage of adding files to analyze them for duplicates, and if available to view and delete unnecessary.
At the bottom of the program window contains the properties panel of the selected picture as well as a toolbar that can be used to make him some operations. Immediately it should be noted that these actions are not much: pictures rotation, slideshow, setting marks removal. But for working with tags Phototheca fits just fine - here is one of the most convenient tools category assignment that I have ever seen.
Interesting for many a necessary function of the program is to hide images in the so-called "vaults". If you have images that you do not want to appear publicly, you add them to a special folder, secret program, set a password and no one except you will not get access to them. Also deserves attention the automatic distribution of images via a special album Smart Album on criteria you specify.
In conclusion, I want to say a few words about the overall impression of the program. Interface Phototheca clearly stands out from the standard for cataloging images, which asked more ACDSee in the last century, and this may deter some and attract other users. Assigning some of the buttons is not obvious and not familiar. Almost all actions are performed quickly and without any prompting and confirmation dialogs. However, upon closer acquaintance with this program is that some of the actions it performed much better than in prior art, and the interface is quite easy to use, you only get used.
Phototheca (Windows 7 / Vista / XP)