Today I rediscovered the program PhotoScape and I like it very much.

Normally I use for retouching photos  Photoline, FixFoto and also Inkscape for special effects. But the tool PhotoScape is somehow different, it gives you all you need for a fast photo processing. Only the One-Click Option “Perfectly Clean” from FixFoto it is not able to reach. (FixFoto is shareware and for the the option “Perfectly Clean” you have to pay additional.)

Beside the editor there are additional functions:

• Picture Browser (I normally use FastStones ImageViewer, also Freeware)
• Batch-Processing, very useful for a collection of pictures
• Album, group different pictures to one, fast and easy
• Combine, like Album, combine pictures
• Gif-Animator, nice but for animated Gifs I use Beneton Movie Gif.
• Print, Index-printing
• further Colorpicker, Renamer, RAW Converter

At the Help-Pages you can take a look, there are different screen-casts available which shows you the functions. I guess also my father is able to retouch his pictures with this nice  software and I will install PhotoScape at his PC next time I’m going to visit him.

What I don’t like are the limited functions for compressing jpeg-files.

Here are some sample pictures only touched with PhotoScape, but compressed via JPEG Imager.

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Finaly I want to point to the Donate-Page of PhotoScape. If you are going to use PhotoScape much, than show your appreciation. 10$ are not that much for such a nice tool.