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Ashampoo Photo Commander 7.7.21-TE



View, manage, organize and edit your digital media in one
intuitive and powerful program

Ashampoo Photo Commander 7 is an all-in-one application for
organizing, editing, sharing and presenting photo collections
with additional audio and video playing and management
capabilities

All the photo editing tools you need are included. Enhance your
images with the one-click optimizer. Remove the red-eye effect
adjust colors, contrast, hue and many other parameters, resize
crop, rotate, add a wide range of special effects

After editing you can then use the integrated creativity tools to
turn your photos into slide shows with music, web albums, photo
collages, calendars and more

What s new in version 7

There are far too many improvements to list them all we can
only include the highlights here:

3D hardware acceleration:

The program now automatically uses the 3D processor in your
computer s video card to achieve a performance boost. If you have
a 3D video card this significantly speeds up photo viewing and
transition effects for smoother resizing and zooming, with
additional smoothing for less jaggy images at high
magnifications

New, more efficient media database:

The new automatic database that manages your media files is now
both faster and more efficient, automatically updating when you
you re your media files. This means you can move files around
without losing their tags (star ratings) and other data. The new
database also makes scanning EXIF photo tags and MP3 audio tags
much faster

Drag & Drop virtual albums:

The new Drag & Drop virtual albums (Favorites) organize your
media files in folders without actually moving them the same
files can be included in multiple folders without creating
multiple copies of the files. You can manipulate the files in
virtual albums just like any other group of files: Add tags and
star ratings, perform batch cut and crop operations, create slide
shows and web albums and so on

Create panorama images:

This is a feature that many users have asked for. In version 7
you now have a tool for stitching together multiple photos to
create a single large panorama image

Slide shows with Ken Burns effect:

The new quick slide show features the popular Ken Burns effect
that zooms and pans on each image while it is being displayed
Just select the photos you want to include and press Ctrl+Shift
to start

Digital camera and scanner importer:

The new digital camera and scanner importer makes it quick and
easy to import images directly from your digital camera or image
scanner

Improved Callout tool:

A number of user suggestions have been implemented to improve the
performance of the Callout (text bubble) tool, which now also
includes the functions of the previous callout tool from Photo
Commander 5

Media browser enhancements:

The media browser comes with many improvements, including
advanced search by text, file type, file rating and age with a
cut-off date. You can now also change the date and time of
multiple files in batch mode and browse images without leaving
Quick Fix mode this makes it easier to apply quick fixes to
multiple images. You can resize the thumbnail preview images in
the media browser on the fly with a slider control

Find duplicate images with different names:

A powerful new function for finding duplicates will also find
duplicate images with different names and images that are similar
but not identical. You can enter the level of similarity in
percent

Other Highlights:

Batch Processing:

The Batch Processing tool can save many hours of tedious work
converting to different formats and applying effects to multiple
files in a single operation. Effects include resizing
brightness, gamma, contrast, color depth, rotate, invert
grayscale, drop shadows, borders, sharpening, watermarks, 1-click
optimize and more. All these effects are applied to all the files
in the selected batch

Quick-Fix Tools:

The Quick-Fix Tools gets results fast and will probably be able
to handle almost all your photo editing needs. Features include
one-click color and contrast optimization, photo straightening
(if the camera wasn t straight), red eye correction, cropping
rotating and more all with a couple of clicks. All the tools
are self-explanatory for instant results without hassles

Creativity and Productivity Tools:

Viewing and organizing your media files is just the beginning
Photo Commander comes with a whole suite of tools for sharing and
using your photos creatively both on the web and at home. You
can mail your photos, export them to PDF files and burn them to
CDs and DVDs. You can also create web albums, slide shows with
music, photo collages, photo calendars, photo cards with frames
contact sheets, photo mix combinations and multi-image TIFF
files (single-file slide shows). All these features are very easy
to use it s basically a point and click process, the program
guides you through every step

Audio and Video:

Ashampoo Photo Commander 7 displays videos and plays audio tracks
just as easily as it can manage your photos you don t need to
switch to separate player programs. You can zoom videos, play
them in full-screen mode, extract screenshots, create video
playlists and more. You get all the functions of a good audio
player. Play and organize your audio tracks, create and store
playlists and much more. You can also create multimedia
playlists, combining photos with audio and video files

Skins and Plugins:

You can load different skins to give the program a different
look or even redesign the program s user interface yourself
Photo Commander also supports plugins for handling additional
file formats. A number of plugins are already available
including plugins for the Canon RAW, Kodak Flashpix, HDR .dds
Industrial Light & Magic HDR .exr and Joint BiLevel .jbg formats