PicaJet
PicaJet is a photo organizer for keen family photographers who want speed, ease-of-use, and a full set of cataloging features. It includes full support for most RAW images, including Adobe DNG format, and allows you to write image annotations directly into DNG files. It has good support for IPTC metadata and can use Exif data within searches.
PicaJet imposes no restrictions on nesting depth, a fact that makes it an exceptionally flexible and powerful tool for organizing your photos. It offers easy tagging, indexing, unlimited categories, and keyword importing. You can sort your pictures by capture data, folders, ratings, comments or keywords. Although secondary to its major cataloging function, PicaJet also provides several editing features, including crop and rotate, auto-enhance, red-eye removal, sharpen and filters. With its batch processing capability you can make changes to several images at once.
Output is to CD and DVD without the need for any extra softare. You can print in various sizes, add frames and dates, or simply view the photos as a slide show. A multilingual interface (with Italian, Spanish, German, Chinese, French, Russian, and so on) completes the package: a one-stop solution for handling digital images.
Comment
PicaJet was launched as a possible competitor to Google's Picasa, being pitched at the same category of user. Most reviewers actually found it superior to Picasa, and the phrase "Picasa-killer" was occasionally mentioned. Given Google's reach, that was never going to happen, especially as Picasa is also completely free. Yet PicaJet has so many virtues, such as speed of import, RAW support and efficient sorting, that it could certainly be useful to serious photographers with large collections of images.
Tech info
- OS: Windows 98 onward
- Price level: (Single License) $48; (Family License) $80
PicaJet
PicaJet.com was established in 1999 to develop and market PicaJet, and the company has continued it success with RoboImport and RoboFolder. It has office addresses in Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, Canada.
From the same vendor:
- RoboImport
- RoboFolder
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