So which are the best 100% free Photo Management (Organizer) Software out there? We do all the searching for you, and present you with the top 5 picks. But before that do we need Photo Managers? Gone are the days when we used to have photo negatives to store photos and develop them needed. Going digital also bought in a big problem – too many photos! Yes, thousands and thousands of pictures piled up in your devices including laptop, desktop, portable hard disk, flash drives, cloud devices, smartphones, and list goes on. The problem doesn’t end there, you also have to deal with duplicate photos, enhanced photos, cropped photos, resized photos and so on and so forth.

Solution to this problem – you need a good Photo Organizing software. The scope of this article is to let you know the best 100% free photo organizers that doesn’t bother you to upgrade to pro version or things like that. All these are installed and tested by us and found to be clean from malware at the time of review. Magix Photo Manager.

Magix Photo Manager comes with a slew of handy features for worry free management of your photos. It has a nice stable user interface and comes with a import feature using which you can right away get your photos and videos from your digital camera, phone, or scanner. It has the ability to fish out duplicates by matching similar scenes, so just choose and sample photo and it will find out the closest matching photos from your library.

Microsoft Windows Photo Gallery. Microsoft’s native photo program is Windows Photo Gallery, which lets users automatically import and organize their photos. The software also includes editing features such as red-eye reduction, crop, straighten, retouch, color balance, exposure, and more. © Copyright Fat Cat Software 2006-2018.

You may then review and delete the not needed ones. You can rate the photos so that you can anytime quickly sort and get the high rated ones when you need. Photo Manager has automatic face recognition capability in which it can identify up to 10 faces. Office 365 for mac reviews 2017. Magix Photo Manager got some basic photo editing features like automatic image optimization, red-eye correction, panorama picture creation and image optimization for web use.

If you have videos, you can trim and remove shaky footages from it easily. When you are ready to share photos with your family and friends, you can use online photo sharing tool “showfy” which according to the company is SSL encrypted for your safety.

Other features of Magic Photo Manager include creation of virtual albums, routine backup copies creation, and automatic slideshow creation. Magix Photo Manager is 100% free for personal use, but you need to provide your email ID for life-time free activation. Note that its online sharing tool Showfy is not free for use. Supported Image and Video Formats: JPG, BMP, TIF, Kodak Photo CD, RAW formats from selected camera models, AVI, MOV, MPEG, WMV-HD, and MXV. Picasa is one of the oldest, simple yet powerful photo organizing application.

There is absolutely zero learning curve to start using it. You can import photos into Picasa from cameras, memory cards, and scanners. It lets you to create virtual groups taken from several folders which implies you can see these photos without physically moving the pictures from the folder.

Just like in Magix, Picasa also features facial recognition feature so that you can quickly find out photos of a particular person. When it comes to editing photos Picasa has it all; you can crop, straighten, auto contrast, and auto color pictures. You can perform retouching of pictures for those fine works and also remove redeye from pictures. You also do get option to add text in photos. Picasa also has several special effects filters like infrared film, HDR-ish, Cinemascope, Cross Process, 1960’s, etc., which can be applied at a click of a button.

The best part of Picasa is the creation of Photo Collages which is high flexible and great looking. It should go into your list of most used tools. Picasa uses its Google+ Photos for online sharing and storage of photos, which has unlimited storage for standard resolution pictures. Supported File Formats: jpeg,.tif,.tiff,.bmp,.gif,.psd (Photoshop),.png,.tga, and selected RAW formats. Windows Photo Gallery Microsoft’s is another great application for managing your photo collection. Like all the other programs reviewed here, this one is also capable of importing photos and videos directly from camera, scanner, and removable drives. Windows Photo Gallery lets you create a panoramic photo by stitching several photos together.

A feature named Photo Fuse can create a photo by combining the best parts of two or more photos into one. And creation of collage is also available here too, but it is very basic in terms of control and no where near what Picasa’s collage can do. Editing features include photo’s composition, exposure, detail, color, straighten, crop, red-eye fix, and some other photo options. Photo Gallery comes with built-in 5 slideshow themes using which you can create a slideshow in few clicks. Other features include photo rating, Geotag, and ability to publish photos and videos from Photo Gallery to a blog, Facebook, YouTube, etc. Supported File Formats: BMP, JPEG, JFIF, TIFF, PNG, and WDP. XnView is feature-rich photo organizing software that lets you browse, organize, view, and edit your images.