Ashampoo Photo Commander

Chockfull of features: More than 200 functions for your photos in a single software

Ashampoo Photo Commander 17 is the complete solution to view, edit and organize your photos. Bring order to your collection, optimize any number of photos simultaneously and create stylish calendars, cards, or entire slideshows in no time! Turn any number of unsorted photos into a genuine collection in just a few clicks, whether beginner, enthusiast, or professional!

Ashampoo Photo Commander is back!

A modern technology overhaul for a classic

Ashampoo Photo Commander 17 offers the necessary technology upgrade for blazing performance, up-to-date image formats, and full Windows 11 compatibility. Thanks to more efficient 64-bit memory and CPU management, version 17 is up to 40% faster than version 16. This means faster image browsing and opening. We've also overhauled the burning and scanning routines and improved the codec support (PNG, WEBP, JXR, etc.). Get ready for a futureproof Photo Commander with modern visuals and top-notch performance!

• Full Windows 11 compatibility
• Native 64-bit support for optimal memory usage and speed
• Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) support for optimized CPU usage
• 40% faster loading of JPGs
• Numerous codec upgrades (PNG, WEBP, JXR, etc.)
• New burning and scanning technologies
• Lightning-fast file browser to low memory footprint
• Enhanced video playback
• New wizards for slideshows, batch processing, and duplicate scans
• Convert WebP into JPG

Collages, cards and frames included

From birthdays to Christmas: Create just the right card in no time

Get creative: Photo Commander 17 lets you create stylish collages and elegant cards with the help of numerous included templates. Add nifty frames to your photos and combine images and texts to create greeting cards for holidays, parties, and special occasions.

Make the most out of your photos!

The image viewer with the perfect overview

Smart-group and sort by capture date, time, or file name

With Ashampoo Photo Commander 17, you always stay on top of your photos. Clever filter and grouping options help you keep track no matter how large your photo collections are! Sort chronologically, thematically and by location or apply custom filters and instantly find every shot!

Design slideshows with ease

Create high-res slideshows with music

Create high-resolution 4K slideshows with fitting transitions and underline your shots with music in various formats. Finished projects are instantly previewable with the new video playbar and can be burned to disc straightaway.

Auto-enhance your photos

Smart algorithms for better colors or contrasts and less noise

Even underwhelming shots turn into precious vacation memories thanks to image auto-correction. Remove scratches and eliminate image noise or red eyes instantly! Auto-correction does most of the heavy lifting for you–even in batch processing mode so you can polish your entire library in one go! Optimize colors or contrasts and get rid of compression artifacts at the click of a button!

Present your photos in style

Versatile presentation mode for every occasion

Whether you're enjoying your photos on your own or with friends and family, the new presentation mode is simply genius–especially in multi-display environments. You control the presentation on one display and your viewers get to enjoy the results on another, e.g. a video projector. You can even make live adjustments without leaving the presentation!

Apply geotags

No more confusion about shooting locations

Modern cameras and cellphones use geotagging to save location information along with each shot. Ashampoo Photo Commander 17 not only uses these tags for sorting but can also edit and create them. You'll get precise information down to street level! Want to see all photos from Paris? No problem. You can even view each location in Google Maps instantly!

Crop and edit photos

Beginner or professional user: Make the most of your shots

Crop your photos with ease, straighten image horizons and accentuate colors. Cut out individual people and objects and modify image perspective at your convenience. Play with numerous great photo effects and go professional with gradation curves and tonal value correction! Whether quick fix or detailed post-processing: Ashampoo Photo Commander 17 has got you covered!

A real feature beast for your photos

20 years in the making–and it shows!

Ashampoo Photo Commander includes over 200 photo-related functions and is rightly called "feature beast" by its fans. And it's true: You can click your way through he program and keep discovering new handy features and tools that other companies would gladly sell you as separate apps. Your fun journey into the world of photo editing begins today!

Salvage or create

Breathe new life into bad shots or create stunning panoramic pictures

Not every shot is a hit! Photo Commander 17 includes a special auto-feature that fixes overexposed or washed out colors with great results. You can also apply effects individually to add more vibrancy and structure to your shots, or combine them into breathtaking panoramic views.

Batch-processing done right

Process entire photo libraries in one go

Convert multiple images into different formats at once and adjust image size and aspect ratio in the process. Add watermarks or frames to your photos and rotate or mirror them to your needs. Modify brightness and contrast settings or eliminate image noise. You can do all that with batch-processing and save loads of time and effort!

Find duplicates, edit metadata, smart-search for files

Find the one vacation shot you've been looking for among hundreds of photos!

Ashampoo Photo Commander is handy indeed! It scans your library for duplicates and helps you filter your photos by name, EXIF/IPTC data, or comments. Looking for a needle in a haystack has just become super-easy. You can even add missing metadata manually so you'll never lose track of your photos again!

Fast multi-purpose image editing

A quick fix for common image issues

Discover tools that optimize your photos, add filters and polish contrasts and colors. Straighten image horizons, clone areas, and accentuate details with the focus or tilt-shift effect. Adjust image size and rotation or crop your photos perfectly. Why buy several programs when you can just get the one that does it all in a single interface?

Helpful wizards

Step-by-step guidance

Ashampoo Photo Commander comes with multiple wizards that offer step-by-step assistance for various tasks. Whether you're designing a calendar, creating a collage, or batch-processing hundreds of photos, there's a wizard that will guide you through the process, no previous knowledge required. Pick your photos, select an option, and you're good to go!

A powerful helper for your photo collection

A single application to review, sort and enhance your photos!

20 years ago, beautiful photos were scarce. 10 years ago, memory was scarce. Today, we've got both–but we've also got a veritable file chaos, thanks to hundreds of files! Ashampoo Photo Commander 17 not only turns chaos into neat photo collections but it also turns good into great shots, and can even make collages, greetings cards, and slideshows. Convert your photos, even automatically and in batches, add watermarks, and sort your files by location for instant visual clarity. Photo Commander is the all-in-one solution for you!

Full Windows 11 compatibility and 64-bit support

Maximum performance for all current Windows versions

Ashampoo Photo Commander 17 is not only Windows 11 compatible but has also been completely overhauled for true native 64-bit support and optimal memory management. It's the best-looking, fastest, and most stable Photo Commander yet. Whether you're editing single images or entire libraries, you'll feel the difference right away!

New technologies for more speed

Loads JPGs up to 40% faster

Version 17 pulls out all the stops: The program makes full use of the available memory and supports AVX for lightning-fast results. Numerous codec upgrades, new burning and scanning technologies, significantly snappier file management, and new handy wizards will have you breeze through your work. And it doesn't stop there: We've also enhanced video playback.

Photo Commander 16 is a powerful photo editing suite which goes far beyond many other editing suites found at a similar price and helps provide almost every tool a professional or keen amateur photographer might ever need.

One of the main selling points, with the massive set of tools and effects put aside, is the new adaptive user interface. This new layout makes finding everything easy thanks to the side-by-side file tree and gallery view panels and the adaptive toolbars which learn which tools you use the most and adjust themselves to make said tools more easily available.

The editing interface itself is also improved, by opening individual images which are being worked on in an expanded editing mode makes the editing work itself much easier, returning to the main view after editing is also quick with just a push of the escape key needed.

Overall Photo Commander 16 is looking very impressive at first glance, let’s go and take a look at what it can do!

Key Features

• (New) Perfect Panorama tool
• (New) 4K resolution sideshow creation tool
• (New) Calendar creation tools
• Work with GPS metadata and geotag images with ease
• Create slide shows and burn DVDs from within the application
• Well designed user interface makes organising photos easy
• Fast image optimisation and excellent auto-optimisation tools
• Great selection of image editing tools
• Ability to watermark or easily add text to images
• Great portrait optimisation tools (remove red-eye, whiten teeth etc.)
• Great set of filters and effects (Gray scale, Oil paint, Blue-shift optimisation etc.)
• Easy to use batch processing tools (these are very good)
• Improved 64bit and RAM support for a more stable user experience
• Very cost effective compared to alternative image editing suites

Photo Commander 16 Usability

Installing Photo Commander 16

As with all Ashampoo software Photo Optimizer Commander 16 was very quick and easy to install and I had the application running within just a few minutes. At just under 400MB the download is fairly large but this is mainly owing to the vast amount of features Ashampoo have built into Photo Commander 16.

Once downloaded and set running the installer program will take care of most of the install itself, the option is there to install in a different location to the default should you so wish but if you like to stay with the default setting this really is a painless process.

After the install is complete the software will then be ready to use, upon first opening the software you will be asked to enter a licence code or select to evaluate the software over a period of 10 days (this becomes 30 days if you decide to register with Ashampoo).

Finally, with the registration out of the way, the software will begin by greeting you with the Welcome Wizard, this is a pop-up box which guides you through the main parts of the interface, the tools included and where to find them.

User Interface

When choosing any photo editing suite the user interface is an important consideration, this is essentially the measure of how quick and easy you can find the features you need and make any necessary adjustments to your photos.

With Photo Commander 16, Ashampoo, have done a great job of making this software easy to navigate and simple to get started with. Opening the software for the first time will bring up a handy guide which quickly points out all of the main areas of the software and then walks users through the functionality on offer, a great start for what is normally regarded a complicated category of software to use.

Looking at this initial user interface it is clear a lot of though has gone into making this as easy to use as is possible for high-end photo editing software. The file-tree and gallery view panels on the left are complimented by a larger preview panel on the right with associated meta data for the current image shown below it.

Simply double clicking the selected image (in the preview panel) or selecting any tool from the toolbar above will begin editing and force the software to open the selected image in its “full editing mode”. This editing mode does not take over the full computer screen but does (temporarily) remove the tree view and gallery view panels allowing for more room to work on the actual image itself (the toolbars remain above and expand to include more options as can be seen below).

Whilst in this editing mode we also get our first look at the top menus which help categorise the different parts of Photo Commander 16. For example, the “Quick-Fix” tab has many of the commonly used editing tools (including the auto-optimisation tools), the “Create” tab is where calendars and photo cards can be designed and the organise tab is where DVDs can be burned and batch processing of images is configured (all of these categories will be looked at in more detail later on).

Once editing has finished, exiting to the main screen again is easy, simply press the back / home button found on the tool bar or use the escape key on the keyboard to return.

Going back to the main screen, one of the big features of the new interface is the combination of a file-tree panel and its accompanying gallery view panel next to it. Together these two tools make navigating the PC and finding images to work on easy and can save loads of time over software which omits the file tree view in my opinion.

This file-tree also features some excellent search and filtering tools which make finding the images you want really easy. For example, using the file-tree filters we can search for images based upon the date they were taken, the geographical location they were taken (if geotagged) and even specify which folders should be included or excluded from the search to help narrow down the photos we need.

Looking over at the gallery view panel we can see yet more easy filtering options for use after the main file-tree filtering has been complete. This second set of filters allows us to easily filter on file type (e.g. only jpg files) as well as file names and the ability to ignore images tagged as favourites etc.

The only other significant part of the interface to mention is the main menu found at the top left of the program. This menu makes accessing all main parts of the program easy, it also allows the program settings to be configured further (file associations, backups etc.) which will be looked at later in in this review.

Application Settings

As with all Ashampoo software, settings within Photo Commander 16 are kept simple and to the point, the “All Settings” entry on the main menu is how we can access the settings screen to begin reviewing these settings.

Once in the setting screen we can see we have the ability to set file associations, change the app theme from dark to light, set the language and much more.

The application views themselves can also be tweaked and configured in the main application settings. For example, if you want the photo being edited to be shown at 100% in the “browser” mode and fit to the display area in viewer mode this can be set-up here.

Backups are also a key component of the software which can be configured under this main settings page, Photo Commander 16 will automatically take automatic backups of original images as and when is required to ensure the original image is preserved. The settings for this backup as well as importing backups from another installation and some other options can also be set at this point.

With many of the settings for the individual editing tools and effects configurable in the application itself, this settings page itself is fairly basic and covers the minimum of what is needed. For the most part, the default settings will be fine for the majority of users meaning this settings page isn’t really a big part of the application.

Auto Photo Optimisation

One of the most appealing features of photo editing software is the ability to quickly and easily adjust photos to have then looking at there best in just a couple of clicks. Photo commander is no exception in this regard with an excellent set of auto optimisation tools available.

This collection of auto-optimisation tools included the ability to easily adjust lighting levels, contrast, sharpness, noise plus a few other things and makes creating great looking photos a breeze for users of all abilities.

To get started with the auto-optimisation tools requires the auto-optimise toolbar be used, this is found on the menu just above the preview image panel and when pressed will take us in to the main editing screen.

As can be seen above, the auto-adjust menu has multiple options starting out with “Full Optimisation” at the top of the list which will take care of all settings for us and deliver the end photo with just one click. Other options allow the application to automatically adjust only individual characteristics of the image such as the contrast or the colours.

In addition to these default auto-optimisation tools, Ashampoo, have added some more advanced automatic tools to further optimise images. These additions include haze reduction and 3 levels of noise reduction tool.

Taking the automation concept a little further, Ashampoo, have also implemented a more advanced batch processing tool which can help in auto-optimising a collection of photos automatically.

This batch optimisation tool can be opened from the “Organise” tab whilst in the editing mode, once opened we can start by adding a set of files or a whole folder to the batch.

On the second step we can select the actions to perform on the whole batch, this could be a single action (such as auto-optimise colour & contrast) or a series of individual action covering multiple tools and applying multiple filters in order (such as auto-optimise and then add a watermark).

It is also important to note that at this stage we can specify a separate directory for the modified files to be copied over to (and also optionally delete the originals if required). This is a small thing but since keeping copies or backups of original photos is important it is nice to see this is so easy to implement into such a workflow.

Finally, we can optionally specify the file format should we require it be changed and then by clicking next we will start the optimisation process running. During my testing this processing seemed to work very quickly and I ran into no issues.

As was mentioned earlier, the batch tool is not only useful for auto optimisation of images but can be used to apply a whole range of imaging processing effects, these include watermarking, re-sizing and rotating the photos as well as renaming a whole batch of filenames in one go.

Manual Image Adjustments

With the great selection of auto optimisation and batch processing tools aside, another area in which Photo Commander 16 excels is manual photo editing. Manual editing tools (as are shown below) not only provide more detailed levels of adjustments for our images but also allow other work to be performed, this includes any work which involves the human eye such as cropping and straightening of horizons.

Cropping:

The cropping tool allows a certain section of a photo to be “cut out” from the rest of the photo. This is a fairly standard tool, however, Photo Commander 16 makes this an easy process and even provides a range of pre-set aspect ratios which might be useful when working with certain sizes of screen or printing paper (simply click on the “Size” button after the region has been selected to use a pre-set size).

Photo Commander also provides advanced cropping options allowing an area of an image to be cropped freehand as well as a special tool for cropping out people (or other objects). Another great feature, available once an object or person has been selected with the crop tool is the background exchange tool which allows a background to be easily swapped out and replaced with another photo.

Brightness Correction:

Manual brightness correction gives you full control over the light levels of a photo, ideal when working with photos which are naturally darker or lighter than they should be.

Photo Commander 16 offers an impressive split screen view when working with brightness, colours and contrast along with an impressive level of control over each function. The split screen view means a real-time preview of any changes can be seen and easily compared with the original image.

Straighten Horizon:

Another very useful tool, especially for those taking photos of landscapes and other outdoor sceneries is the “Straighten Horizon” tool. This tool allows photos which, for whatever reason, have a non-horizontal horizon to be adjusted so as the horizon appears straight.

Other Selected Tools:

The manual sharpening tool allows users to specify the level of sharpness which will be applied to the image, this is great when working with close up, detailed shots.

Finally, these are just a few of the manual adjustment options available in Photo Commander 16. I wont go over all of these tools in this review (there are loads of them) but hopefully this section shows that these tools are indeed there and make it easy for users to control the exact impact each tool will have on their photos.

Photo Effects and Filters

In addition to the manual adjustment tools (discussed above) we have plenty of photo filters and pre-made effects included within Photo Commander 16. For example, pre-made overlays can easily be applied to images in addition to multiple other effects such as those required for artificially ageing a photo to make it look much older than it really is.

Other, really useful, effects can also be easily added such as creating a professional looking watermark, great if you are planning on sharing or using any of your work commercially.

And finally, some other “portrait” related tools allow for removal of red-eye from photos of people and (when applicable) the whitening of teeth.

These are just a few examples of the effects and filters available within Photo Commander 16, there are literally hundreds of options available and with a little time invested you should be able to get almost any photo effect you require from such software!

Sideshows, Photo Cards and DVDs

In addition to the impressive range of photo editing tools, filters and effects, Photo Commander 16 brings even more to the table with its additional “Creation” tools.

Found under the “Create” toolbar (as shown above) these tools make displaying and sharing photos easy via several means of publication. For example, we can make a sideshow, add photos to a calendar template, design a greetings card and much more.

Another really useful tool included in this section is the Panorama tool, this tool will automatically attempt to join a series of photos together into a panorama image. It is great to see that this is included in Photo Commander 16 at no additional cost!

As can be seen above, creating a panorama is as simple as adding a collection of photos to the tool and setting it running (the tool does all of the hard work), the results with my test photos can be seen below:

Photo Commander 16 vs Photo Optimizer 8

I recently tested Ashampoo Photo Optimizer 8 a few weeks ago and though it would be good to do a quick comparison with Photo Commander 16 and see how they stack up against each other.

User Interface:

Photo Optimizer 8 has a slightly simplified user interface in comparison to Photo Commander 16, this means it is potentially suited more to those looking for a quick and easy way to get their photos edited and looking at their best. I also found Photo Commander 16 easy to use (given the number of tools on offer), however, I would probably recommend that anyone unfamiliar with photo editing (or just valuing simplicity as a priority) go for Photo Optimizer 8.

If you are more serious about developing photo editing skills then Photo Commander 16 is the way to go, this is partly due to the increased editing options (mentioned below) as well as the excellent file-tree and gallery panels which make finding, filtering and sorting files on your computer easy.

Tools and effects:

I have found that many of the tools and effects are shared between the two applications. The main point of difference being that some of the tools have more powerful settings within Photo Commander 16 whereas these same tools are configured more for ease of use in Photo Optimizer 8.

For example, when using the cropping tool in Photo Optimizer 8 we are given a rectangle (or a set of pre-sized rectangles) to select the area we wish to crop. In contrast, Photo Commander 16 allows additional cropping methods such as a free-hand crop (whereby we can draw irregular shapes to crop out of a picture) and also allows advanced features such as cropping out people and exchanging the background image once a selection has been marked for cropping.

Additional features:

Photo Optimizer 8 is very much focused on the editing of photos, there isn’t much else to this application outside of this core functionality. Photo Commander 16, however, gives us some other useful tools to help get more form our photos. These additional tools include the excellent panorama tool (which I looked at in the main review above) in addition to tools for creating sideshows, calendars, collages etc.

Pricing:

With Photo Optimizer 8 priced at $39.99 and Photo Commander 16 priced at $49.99 there isn’t too much difference in price. Having said this, if you are comparing the two I would say think about what you want from your editing software more than the price difference (its only $10). If getting quick and easy results is more important than range and depth of features then Photo Optimizer 8 is better and visa versa.

Photo Commander Security

There isn’t a lot to say about security in this instance and it is not really applicable to this review.

Ashampoo Support

Ashampoo have a great website and provide a comprehensive Q&A section which handles most problems you might encounter. Should you still need to get in touch with a support representative you can submit support tickets online.

Photo Commander Pricing

Ashampoo Photo Commander 16 is priced at $49.99 – this is a one-off licence fee!

Be sure to also check out Ashampoo’s deals page as they regularly have great deals across their entire range of software (including Photo Commander 16).

Photo Commander Review Summary

With Photo Commander 16, Ashampoo, have delivered a powerful photo editing suite capable of delivering almost any result a keen photographer might ever need. Add into this the range and depth of the editing tools and effects available and Photo Commander 16 soon becomes a stand out product in the photo editing world.

The interface is also very well designed and deserving of a special mention, finding and filtering the photos you want, including the use of geotags and dates, couldn’t have been made simpler. Add in the applications ability to easily break into a focused editing mode whilst working on any individual image and this software becomes very pleasant to work with, a great job in this regard.

Pricing is also very reasonable at a one-off $49.99 for a perpetual licence, this makes Photo Commander 16 cheaper than a lot of its more mainstream competitors yet still offering many of the same features and functionalities.

All-in-all a great effort from Ashampoo, well done!

Latest Ashampoo Photo Commander 16 Review. Are you a professional photographer, or a hobbyist? Do you like collecting wallpapers? Do you create artwork digitally? If the answer to anyone of those questions is yes, then you will have experienced the following scenario.

Your hard drive is cluttered with tons of pictures, and it is incredibly difficult to pin-point the location of a specific photo which you want. The problem only gets worse, as it would take many of your precious hours, if you decide to organize all the photos by yourself. Are you willing to open each and every folder on your computer, and move them to specific folders manually?

There has to be a better way, right?. Also, sometimes you may actually want to edit the photos, and to do this you have to use a different program, a standalone image editor. The same can also be said, if you want to browse a multitude of photo albums.

Ashampoo Photo Commander 16 is an excellent tool for managing and editing your photos.

There are two themes available in Ashampoo Photo Commander 16. A Dark theme and a light theme. The dark one is the default theme and is a bit easy on the eyes. You can change the theme anytime from the program’s settings.

When you run Photo Commander for the first time, a helpful Welcome Wizard walks you through the steps of using the program. Not that you would need it though, since the program is very user friendly in the first place.

You can configure Ashampoo Photo Commander to associate itslef with all supported image, video and audio file formats. Doing so, will allow the program to run automatically when you double click on a supported file in Windows File Explorer. Of course, you can choose to only associate image formats, or if you choose to, you can completely skip the file type associations. You can import all your bookmarks, backups, object styles, albums, imported-photos list and application settings from a previous version of Ashampoo Photo Commander, if you had it installed on your computer.

The interface of Ashampoo Photo Commander is as beautiful as you could expect it to be. The GUI is highly polished, yet not complex in the slightest.  There are three areas in the interface of the application:

• Folder Area
• Content Area
• Preview Area

The Folder Area is the side-bar on the left edge of the Ashampoo Photo Commander interface. You can use this navigation panel to browse through your folders, just like in Windows File Explorer.  You can browse every folder on the PC, including those stored on DVDs, Blu-Ray discs, external hard drives, USB storage disks, network folders, Windows’ Library folders, etc.

There are 2 options which are available just above the Folder Area. The first of these is called Bookmarks. And as the name suggests, you can use it to bookmark any folder for quick access. To add the directory which you are viewing to the bookmarks, click on the add current folder option under the “Bookmarks”.

You can right-click on any folder in the left pane, and rename the folder, or delete it, or create a new folder. More importantly, you can also use this context menu to start a full screen slide show, or browse it in the Windows File Explorer. You could also view the properties of any folder directly from the side bar by selecting the option from the context menu.

There are four options above the toolbar in the Folder area:

• Folders
• When
• Where
• Filing

The Folders option is the default navigation panel. The When tab lists photos and videos based on the year when they were created. The Where tab lists the content based on the geo-location (usually available for photos taken with the GPS metadata enabled). The Filing tab lets you add or remove files to/from the library. You can use the right and left arrow keys next to the tab bar, to switch between tabs.

The Menu, which can be accessed from the hamburger menu button on the top left corner, allows you to quickly jump between various options. You can use it to see the most used pictures. The File menu allows you to create new photos, slideshows, playlists, PNG/GIF/MNG animations, PDF, TIF, DCX files. The import option lets you import photos from a camera or scan an image from a scanner or a camera. You can also use it to import photos which you have saved to cloud storage services such as Dropbox, OneDrive and Google Drive.

The open option lets you open photos or videos using Photo Commander, or with an external program. You can also save, rename, delete, reload, close content, or move them or copy them to different folders. Sharing content is a breeze, as the program lets you send pictures and videos via email or upload them to various web services including Twitter, Facebook and Ashampoo Web.

You can Print photos from the menu, and also view the file information, file date, time, change the DPI, search for images. The Edit options allow you to perform basic image editing, and also add frames, add various effects, modify the exposure, color depth, etc.

The View option, opens the photo browser in Photo Commander, and lets you switch the view style, sorting, group options, and also change the zoom levels, and enable the compare mode, to see the difference between an original and modified photo.

The Slideshow option lets you view a slideshow on the current monitor, or a different one. Ashampoo Photo Commander supports up to 4 monitors. You can also configure the music and effects used in the slideshow.

Photo Commander’s tools section can be used to convert photos from one format to another, to rename the files, redate the files, add geo-tagging, modify the IPTC data etc. You can also use it to create collages, panoramas, calendars, photo-mixes, or web photo albums.

The PNG and JPG Optimizer tools can be used to reduce the file size of the photo, without any loss of the quality, and also for deleting GPS, metadata including EXIF tags, etc. Optionally you can change it to grayscale too.

The find Specific Duplicates option, and Automatically find Duplicates option, allow the program to scan for and find multiple copies of the same photo or video. You can then delete the copies, which helps you save precious storage space.

You can print multiple photos in batches, or print a sheet of thummbnails from a folder. There are two more conversion tools here, one which can convert a 3d photo into 2D, and the other can be used to create a GIF animation from a video. If you wish to set a specific photo as your desktop background, you can use the set photo as wallpaper option frim the tools menu. You can burn photos to a CD/DVD using the built in Burner utility.

The Configurations section in the menu allows you to customize the settings of Ashampoo Photo Manager, including changing the language, the theme, and configuring file associations.

The Content Area, or the central pane of Ashampoo Photo Commander is where you see the contents of the folder which you have selected on the side-panel. The Content area displays the thumbnails of every photo in the folder. And that’s not all, you can also see the thumbnail preview of video and audio files too.

You can use the toolbar here, to filter the content displayed in the Content Area. It allows you to view only GIF, or JPG, PNG, TIF, TGA, PSD, MP4, or MP3 files. The filter filename, and filter IPTC, EXIF, GPS tags let you narrow down the results, as does the three drop down menus which lets you change the view to only display images, or videos, audio files, display only favorites or non favorites, and display only content from a specific time range.

The options next to the toolbar can be used to rotate the media, create slideshows, manage the content, share them via email or the internet, or for creating PDFs from images.

The Preview Area, which is on the right side of the interface, is where Ashampoo Photo Commander displays the preview of your videos and photos. You can double-click on any photo to switch between the photo browser mode, and the single-view mode. To return to the other mode, you just have to double click on the picture again.

The preview pane can be used to add various effects, resize the image, perform edits, optimize the media, and also for saving, backing up or exporting content. The bottom of the pane displays the name of the photo, along with its tag, title, resolution, DPI, file size, histogram, and EXIF data.

Ashampoo Photo Commander 16 supports over 30 languages. The application is compatible with Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8 and Windows 7. If your computer has a touch screen display, you can use it to work with the program.

Ashampoo Photo Commander 16 is loaded with a ton of features, and yet manages to keep things easy to use. It is well worth getting.