Best Free Photo Editor And Organizer For Mac

Phototheca is a free photo organizer that let’s you view, sort, and organize thousands of photos. You can use Phototheca to organize your photos, view them on calendar, keep them in albums, and tag them with keywords for instant search. Phototheca is a Windows software that include several features similar to iPhoto for MAC. You can use Phototheca as an alternative of iPhoto in Windows OS. Regardless of what you intend to use the best photo editor for Mac to do, you can be able to find one that will suit your needs. From the leisure photographers to professionals in the field of web design and digital drawing, all can find an ideal app they can use in their Mac. Dear Folks, I am shooting a few Sony cameras (A7rii for advanced stuff, RX100 iv for daily snapshots), mostly in RAW, but sometimes in JPEG. I was an iPhoto / Aperture user on my Mac, but unfortunately they no longer work properly on my computer. Top 10 Best Photo Management Software Reviews 2018 Posted by Winnie to Photo Management| Last Updated on Dec.13, 2017. Here is a complete list of 2018 best 8 photo management software for Mac or Windows, which makes photo organization and management easily, namely sorting photos, editing pictures, and backing up photos without a hassle. There aren't many Mac photo management apps that aren't geared towards a specific purpose, but among the few we think Lyn is the best for it's speed, wide format compatibility, and good. The tool focus on both photo organizing, and photo editing, so you will find loads of features for both purposes. Its editing features include annotation, Multipage TIF editing, color depth, enhance, IPTC editing, effects and filters, lossless rotation and much more.


On Wednesday we asked you to tell us your favorite digital photo organizing software, and hundreds of you answered with passionate testimonies extolling the virtues of your application of choice. Today, we're taking a closer look at the top five vote-getters, then facing them off in one final showdown to find out which is the ultimate favorite. Hit the jump for a look at the top five photo organizers as chosen by your fellow readers, then vote for your favorite of the bunch.

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Picasa (Windows/Linux)

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Readers love this cross-platform photo management software from Google for its ease-of-use and impressive feature set—particularly for free software. Gmail integration, simple editing tools, and Picasa Web Albums has also helped users quickly tweak and share their photo libraries with friends and family online. See more on how to organize your digital photos with Picasa.

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Manually Managed Folder Structure (All Platforms)

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Despite (or perhaps because of) the menagerie of available photo managers out there, many readers find it more intuitive to keep their pics application-independent, opting instead to save their photos in a folder structure of their own devising or just in date-based folders. It's completely free, and it's the photo organization system that's been around since the very beginning.

Flickr (Web)

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Beloved for its tagging, sharing, and off-site backup features, Flickr is the standout for users looking to share and organize their photos online. Most die-hard Flickr users opt to pony up the $25 for a Flickr Pro account to upgrade their storage limits, but you can still enjoy Flickr's best features for free, including their new web-based editing tools, which make it easy to get rid of the red-eye even after your photos hit the web.

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iPhoto (Mac OS X)

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Bundled with the iLife suite of applications that comes with every new Mac, many Mac users find all the photo organization tools they'll ever need in iPhoto. Much like Picasa for the Mac, iPhoto provides amateur users with a dead simple way to take control of their photos. iPhoto can also do simple photo editing, and the recently added .Mac Web Gallery makes publishing and sharing photos online a breeze (though web galleries do require the $100/year .Mac subscription).

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (Windows/Mac)

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Hardcore photogs looking to take control of their photo collection—including their massive library of RAW images—and who aren't afraid of spending a few bucks on software (*ahem*, $299) turn to Adobe's Lightroom. Aside from its seamless integration with the premiere photo-editing software, Photoshop, Lightroom has its own set of image editing tools that boast non-destructive editing, impressive support for very large libraries, and an all-around feature set anyone from a weekend photographer to a professional would love.

Now it's time to crown the winner:

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Honorable mention goes to Adobe Elements, Aperture, and ACDSee, all of which are advanced shareware photo management applications that just missed the cut.

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Free Photo Editor And Organizer

If your application of choice didn't make the cut but you still want to give other Lifehacker readers the chance to hear about it, tell us about it in the comments.

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With smartphone cameras becoming more powerful than ever, there's been a massive increase in the amount of pictures we have to manage. It's not unusual to have hundreds or even thousands of photos scattered across poorly labeled folders and a dozen different devices. However, bringing order to this chaos doesn't have to be a Sisyphean task. Here are 10 of the best free photo management tools for desktop computers to help you organize your image collection. (Image Credit: Redpixel PL/Shutterstock)