Photology

Working with a camera on a daily basis surely forces you to organize your collections for better management later on. Sure enough, this can easily be done by storing them in different folders, but it’s good to rely on applications like Photology to create custom groups with little effort, and explore galleries in an intuitive environment.

Before you can enjoy all the application has to offer, you need to make sure that .NET Framework is installed on your computer. If not, the installer offers to grab, and deploy it for you, although modern Windows iterations come with it in the default set of features, meaning there’s a high chance it’s already there.

The visual design is slick, with custom-made textures wrapped around all features. Various animations, and clean transitions between functions make the whole experience worthwhile, while the general layout quickly gets you up and running, regardless of experience.

Source folders are automatically scanned the first time the application runs, just so the picture gallery is prepared. These directories can be configured any time from the settings panel, with one of the default location being your OneDrive account.

Most of the space is taken up by the preview area, which shows thumbnails for all processed images. These can be rotated on the spot, or removed from the gallery, while a simple click brings a big preview in focus, also changing the navigation style to one picture at a time.

While in the main window, a side panel makes it possible to apply some neat quick filters based on time of day, date, features like orientation or color, location, content, text, as well as color. Editing itself isn’t abundant, but there are tools to adjust brightness and color correction, as well as red eye removal.

What best helps with organizing collections are groups. One is created at the press of a button, and pictures are added in a similar way, while this can be done while browsing through collections. For more details, pictures can be fitted with captions.

All things considered, we can safely state that Photology manages to live up to expectations, providing a visually appealing interface in which to organize, and explore picture collections. You only get to work with source folders of your choice. Filters make it easy to view according to various criteria, while managing groups requires incredibly little effort.