I always liked to use those small little softwares created by common people like us. From my testing of over 50+ software, there are some that really stand out, but alot that i uninstalled within 10 min.
Just gonna name 3 of my fav tools for now, because I'm sure these will save everyone ALOT of time.
Me, I always don't have enough time, thus i always appreciate tools which give best results in the shortest time possible.
Care to list out some of your favourite tools too? (Other than Photoshop, it's an ESSENTIAL tool)
*note: don't complain about photoshop and windows tools being able to do rotation, because they cannot do lossless jpeg rotation. They will load file, uncompress data (info loss), do lossless rotate, then compress again (more loss) and save.
DW Suite
http://www.photographersolutions.com/products.htm
What it is: a collection of Photographer PP tools
Why good: easiest and lossless jpeg rotation tool - right click for one way, left for the other. Keeps original image quality, unlike the windows viewer rotate.
The browser is butt ugly, but it's fast.. but i won't use coz of the ease of windows viewer which is just a bit slower.
5 other tools included (don't really understand all of them, and some too pro for me like ICC profiling).
Downloader Pro
http://www.breezesys.com/Downloader/index.htm
What it is: Tool to help you get your photos from your camera to your computer upon insertation of MC
Why good: Allows auto renaming, auto (lossless) rotation (good for newer cams like FZ5 which has camera orientation data), can allow for auto copying of everything into dynamic directories like DDMMYY etc, can map different directories for different cameras.
PhotoWorker
http://www.photoworker.com
What it is: Tool to resize and add frame/shadow and add watermark
Why good: allows automation of full directories/files, drag and drop operations (from explorer), allows resize+overlay/watermark+frame with 1 click, customization of file names.
Just gonna name 3 of my fav tools for now, because I'm sure these will save everyone ALOT of time.
Me, I always don't have enough time, thus i always appreciate tools which give best results in the shortest time possible.
Care to list out some of your favourite tools too? (Other than Photoshop, it's an ESSENTIAL tool)
*note: don't complain about photoshop and windows tools being able to do rotation, because they cannot do lossless jpeg rotation. They will load file, uncompress data (info loss), do lossless rotate, then compress again (more loss) and save.
DW Suite
http://www.photographersolutions.com/products.htm
What it is: a collection of Photographer PP tools
Why good: easiest and lossless jpeg rotation tool - right click for one way, left for the other. Keeps original image quality, unlike the windows viewer rotate.
The browser is butt ugly, but it's fast.. but i won't use coz of the ease of windows viewer which is just a bit slower.
5 other tools included (don't really understand all of them, and some too pro for me like ICC profiling).
Downloader Pro
http://www.breezesys.com/Downloader/index.htm
What it is: Tool to help you get your photos from your camera to your computer upon insertation of MC
Why good: Allows auto renaming, auto (lossless) rotation (good for newer cams like FZ5 which has camera orientation data), can allow for auto copying of everything into dynamic directories like DDMMYY etc, can map different directories for different cameras.
PhotoWorker
http://www.photoworker.com
What it is: Tool to resize and add frame/shadow and add watermark
Why good: allows automation of full directories/files, drag and drop operations (from explorer), allows resize+overlay/watermark+frame with 1 click, customization of file names.