Compare PhotoViewerPro vs. Phototheca

Experience a true full-screen viewer that offers robust photo zoom functionality along with a customizable image magnifier. It features an array of powerful image editing tools that allow for resizing, resampling, rotating, flipping, cropping, sharpening, blurring, and adjusting various lighting, color, curves, and levels parameters. Users can select from eleven distinct resampling algorithms when resizing their images. Additionally, it provides a range of image color effects, enabling adjustments to grayscale, sepia, and negative filters, as well as red, green, and blue balance modifications. Special image effects enhance creativity with options like annotation, drop shadows, framing, bump mapping, sketching, oil painting, and lens effects. The application also allows for the drawing of texts, lines, highlights, rectangles, ovals, and callout shapes directly onto images. Advanced tools such as the clone stamp and healing brush ensure seamless editing, while the superior red-eye removal feature guarantees a natural finish. Users benefit from a multi-level undo and redo functionality, making it easy to revert changes. The software supports one-touch display options for best fit and actual size images, along with comprehensive image management that includes tagging capabilities and convenient drag-and-drop folder operations. A histogram display coupled with a color counter aids in meticulous color analysis, and users can compare multiple images side-by-side—up to four at a time—to efficiently filter out less desirable shots. Furthermore, it supports image EXIF metadata, offering insights into the captured details. All these features come together to create a thoroughly engaging photo editing experience.

Phototheca simplifies the process of viewing, sorting, organizing, editing, and sharing thousands of digital images and videos on a computer. You can import photos from various platforms such as hard drives, NAS systems, network shares, memory cards, and smartphones. The software allows you to eliminate duplicates, assign keyword tags to images, identify and label faces, create photo albums, and share content online. With its comprehensive set of editing tools, Phototheca enhances your images, giving them a fresh and captivating appearance. Its advanced AI-powered facial recognition feature automatically detects the same individual across your photo library, organizing them into albums without any manual effort. You can even tag your beloved pets, regardless of whether they bark or meow, and the software will recognize them as well. By collecting all images of the same person into a designated album, Phototheca makes it easy to keep your memories organized. You can also pin all identified faces to a virtual corkboard, allowing for swift access to their corresponding photos. Overall, Phototheca offers an exceptional toolkit for effectively managing and structuring your photo collection, ensuring that your visual memories are easily accessible and perfectly organized. This powerful software not only saves time but also enhances the enjoyment of reliving cherished moments.