Developer: Eastman Kodak

Kodak EasyShare is a photo cataloging program similar in many ways to iPhoto. You can catalog and organize any photos on your computer or a disk, automatically transfer photos from a camera, edit photos, burn a CD or DVD of photos, and print photos.

The main Kodak EasyShare window has three panes - a narrow pane that lists your photo collections, a large pane for viewing photos and another narrow pane for viewing thumbnails of selected images. You can close and hide the thumbnail pane and you can adjust the width of the other two panes.

If you import images from folders, Kodak EasyShare will keep the images organized and create folders in the program that match the original ones, so it might be easy to move from another photo cataloging program to Kodak EasyShare.

Kodak EasyShare main window

The buttons on the Kodak EasyShare Toolbar are difficult to understand from the icons but helpful tool tips are displayed when you hold your mouse over the buttons. Your options, from left to right include:

  • Import pictures - Images will be imported and albums will be created for each set/folder of images.
  • Make a new album - You can create a new album, name it, assign a date for it and write a description of it.
  • Edit selected picture - A new pane will open with options for editing the selected image. The options include rotate, crop, remove red eye, automatically enhance the image, adjust brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, or exposure, and apply fun effects, such as black and white and sepia. When you adjust an image, there will be a live update image next to the original image.
  • Information about selected picture - You can view information on any photo, including date taken, format, size of the file, dimensions of the image, maximum print size, and location of the file. You can also add a caption for the photo.

Kodak EasyShare gives you several options for printing images, including creating and printing greeting cards. You can also design custom templates and save your images and layouts as To Do items for printing at a later time.

Other special features of Kodak EasyShare are the ability to view images in a slideshow, create backups of your library with reminders of when you need to back up the library again, create Smart albums, and view movie files directly in Kodak EasyShare.

Kodak EasyShare is a photo cataloging program with many extra features, such as editing capabilities and backups with reminders, and it is worth a try, even if you use iPhoto or another photo cataloging program.

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