Ashampoo Photo Commander is probably the only tool you need for organizing, editing, sharing and presenting your digital photos. In addition to this it can also be used for managing your audio and video files, with high-quality integrated players.

Finding photos is easy, no matter how big your collection is: You can sort and search for images and duplicate images by names, tags and other attributes, view your collection by folder or date, view thumbnail previews of all your images and more. Instant previews and full-screen mode are always just a click away, along with integrated viewers and players for video and audio files.

All the photo editing tools you need are included, you don’t need additional software: Enhance your images with the one-click optimizer. Remove the “red eyes” from flash photos, adjust colors, contrast, hue and many other parameters, resize, crop, rotate and add a wide range of special effects, including some brand-new effects in version 8.

After editing you can then use the many integrated creativity tools to turn your photos into slide shows with music, web albums, photo collages, calendars and more. There’s also a Photo Collage tool that creates an attractive collage of multiple photos in seconds, with a 3D effect so that the result looks like a real collage of photos on a pin board with a background.

What’s new in version 8
Version 8 is a major update with countless improvements, but it focuses primarily on making everything even easier to use and more efficient than ever before. We have gone through every feature of the program and fine-tuned it to make a great product even better. New users will love how easy everything is to use, existing users will feel at home immediately, but with better tools and even faster, smoother performance.

Improvements in detail
User interface and photo/media organization
Thumbnail previews are now generated in the background so that you can start working immediately – this is great for media folders on network drives and online and big RAW images. You can now view the contents of multiple folders in a single view, for example all the photos in “My Photos” including sub-folders. The new “Calendar View” tab displays all the images in the selected folders and sub-folders by date and time. The new Film Strip view displays thumbnails as a rolling “film strip” with a preview above it. The media database is now optimized automatically at regular intervals. Thumbnails now fade in and out smoothly when you switch between folders. Video thumbnails are now identified clearly by a video camera icon in the corner.
New photo captions feature

There is now a Description bar under the preview in Photo Commander where you can add and edit descriptions as captions. Descriptions stored by Windows Explorer and other applications are displayed here automatically – similarly, descriptions stored in photos in Photo Commander will be displayed in Windows Explorer and other applications.
 

Previews and full-screen mode
Better interface controls for faster and more intuitive photo/video previews with fewer clicks and better full-screen editing capabilities. Smoother transitions and better zooming with additional options. Faster switching between images in preview mode.
 

Editing and effects
Advanced anti-aliasing now provides smooth edges for all shapes, lines, curves and objects. Switching between editing objects is now super-fast and easy and editing is faster throughout. Images can be auto-rotated when you import them using information saved by your digital camera. New resizing technology generates much better results when you make your images bigger or smaller. Cropping photos to predefined sizes and aspect ratios is now much faster and easier.
 

Searching, renaming, sorting, wizards
A new technology makes finding duplicate images faster and easier than ever before. You can now sort photo files by the date they were taken on as well as by their file date. An updated Batch Rename tool enables you to change the names of multiple files with new options like lower case, upper case, remove part of the name, remove extension etc. There are similar improvements in other wizards, including Batch Process, Batch Redate (change date), Collage Tool and Calendar
 

Printing and scanning
An improved Print dialog makes it easier to print one or more copies of single or multiple photos. You just click on the image, select Print and instantly get a new dialog with a preview and interactive print options including a header and footer. You can now also choose between scale and auto-crop for printing when your images don’t fit on the chosen output paper. Support for scanners has been improved across the board.

Ashampoo Photo Commander 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.
 

Email, PDFs, and disc burning
You can mail your photos, export them to PDF files and burn them to CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs – here the program benefits from Ashampoo’s long experience in disc burning software.
 

Web albums, slide shows and more
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).

Audio and video
Ashampoo Photo Commander organizes video and audio tracks just as easily as it can manage your photos, with integrated players for both formats. You don't need to switch to separate programs to manage your multimedia files.

Camera and scanner import
Import photos directly from your digital camera or scanner. The intelligent interactive importer makes it easy to select and import your images, and it can now also rotate images automatically if the camera provides the information for this.
 

Skins and Plugins
You can load different ‘skins’ to give the program a different look or even redesign the program’s user interface yourself. Ashampoo Photo Commander also supports plugins for handling additional file formats.
 

New features

Many improvements in the user interface
New calendar mode: Display images in all selected folders in a single list, sorted by year, month and date
New filmstrip browser mode: Shows thumbnails as a “rolling filmstrip” below a preview window
New multiple folder preview: Shows contents of all selected folders in a single window, including sub-folders
New function to add descriptions to photos – displayed as a caption and stored in the photo, readable by other programs
Improved editing tools with anti-aliasing for all objects for smoother images and higher quality
Instant printing for single and multiple photos – just click and select Print for an instant Print dialog with preview
Even better interactive full-screen mode for photos and videos
Faster photo viewer with better zoom features
New, more effective method for finding duplicate photos
Improved resizing quality
New photo effects

Download Ashampoo Photo Commander 8 v8.3.0