PhotoThru

Editing pictures doesn’t necessarily have to involve complex operations, and can even represent plain conversion to a required format. However, it’s good to have a majority of edit operation at hand, and with the help of PhotoThru, you can easily create albums, process pictures, print, or convert to other formats.

As far as the visual design is concerned, the application comes with a custom-made window. The overall layout is intuitive and poses no accommodation problems. The main window is fitted with a navigator for easy selection of folders and pictures of interest, as well as an album organizer which can serve as a drop point for pictures located with the explorer.

In terms of file support, the application can perfectly read those pictures under formats like JPG, BMP, and TIFF. Main window elements can be customized in terms of view type and size specifications.

Albums can be created on the spot and each can contain multiple pages. These are filled through a simple drag and drop operation with pictures found through the explorer. On the bright side of things, there are various preset pages which contain custom layouts which are able to hold more than one picture.

Unfortunately, albums are only saved under the application’s own format, which means it needs to be used for preview as well. Although albums can be printed on a sheet of paper, it would have been useful to see at least one supported picture export options for individual pages.

On the other hand, the application also comes with a stand-alone editor which can also be accessed from the main window. Formats mentioned above are supported for both import and export operations. The set of edit options include a few effects like blur, or color adjustment, as well as cropping or rotation.

All things considered, we can state that PhotoThru isn’t really a fully-fledged picture management solution, but it does come equipped with enough features to make it worth the effort. The visual design is intuitive, packing both an explorer and album builder, while the editor allows you to fine-tune images and convert to other formats.