Who says that it was once better because the photos were made of paper and could be kept better is because they don't have a program to organize the photos . The problem with digital photos is that they are always many, stored on the computer, there was not much concern to rename or order them according to a certain criterion in order to easily search and find them. If you are in this situation, with photos of past holidays or travels all mixed up or, in any case, difficult to find and, to show to friends, avoiding doing manual work to reorder all the files according to the date or place in which they were taken, you can use a program that organizes the files of all the images in a personalized way, capable of ordering them by place or date, adding tags to photos, moving them to a folder, setting color labels, creating a presentation, and do many other things.
NOTE: Until today, for this particular operation of organizing photos on the PC, I would have recommended the Google Picasa image and photo management program that can still be downloaded today, but which Google has decided to withdraw this software and has stopped developing and updates.
Taking advantage of this article with the best free programs to organize photos on PC that are also the most valid alternatives to Picasa .
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1) My Photo Index is a powerful program and one of the best photo organizers on PC. The first scan of the photos creates the thumbnails of the images to see them listed and to be able to find and click the ones you want to see. Organizing photos with this program is really very easy, you just need to use colored labels, add tags and ratings, change original dates, rotate images and other options. The best feature is the ability to search by tags and for comments or even browsing photos by date of acquisition.
You can also sort photos by creation time, import order and file name. The software has some other accessory functions such as encrypting an image, to password protect it from viewing.
Photos can be published on Facebook directly from the program.
2) Adobe Bridge is a free program that can be downloaded and installed after registering an Adobe account. This software is very full-bodied, an image manager dedicated to those who work with programs such as Photoshop, but also good for others, for those who want to have a modern tool for ordering and viewing photos on the computer.
2) Photo App in Windows 10 is already installed on Windows 10 systems, provided by Microsoft as the default program for viewing, managing and ordering images and photos on the PC. You can automatically import photos from your camera or mobile phone, organize them by date, upload them online to Onedrive, add tags, use editing tools and create videos and albums and much more.
3) SunlitGreen Photo Manager is another good alternative to Picasa, a free program for Windows PC with which you can create photo albums organized into categories and tags. The interface is also easy to use, reversing the classic organization process a little: you start with the creation of the new album, create the categories and, finally, add the photos as you wish.
4) MAGIX Photo Manager (free for personal use) is a very intelligent commercial-level software that allows you to sort photos by keywords, creation date, similar images. You can also edit the files by renaming them, correcting the title, changing the creation date, author name and other things for each individual image. The program also has tools to improve the sharpness, brightness, contrast of the photo and then see photos in slideshows, create photo CDs, a photo book, a video of photos (although these functions require the installation of other integrated software) .
5) Zoner Photo studio is an elegant program for organizing photos that are automatically indexed and then arranged in groups and categories. This is also a good image viewer and allows you to view any image in its original size. It can be used to crop and rotate an image, find or filter images based on color, date, time of day and other things.
6) Google Photos
Google Photos is not a PC program, but a web application available only if there is an internet connection. It can therefore be used in parallel with one of the other programs. His specialty is the search with Google technology that allows you to find each photo based on what they portray. In practice you can search for the word dog to find all the photos in which a dog appears or put the name of a city to find the photos taken in that place. At the software level, there is no better way to keep photos organized.
7) Programs to rename photos based on certain criteria, to be able, for example, to rename files with the date and to easily find them.
