STOIK Imagic Free Browser

Fast photo and video browser, with folder, calendar and tags browsing modes. Includes Dark Room with a set of enhancement tools and RAW converter, panorama stitching, Improvement Wizard.

Pros: In these days of bulk digital images you need something that can clean them up, import or organize the stuff that may be stored all over several directories on your machine. This freeware program allows you to import, organize, automatically enhance and share photos and videos. Fast indexing algorithm scans thousands of image and video files in few minutes. There are several alternatives for browsing through the media files thus located. The options are to use the folder browser, calendar browser or the tags browser. Checking through picture by file names, by dates taken or by the tags used in naming the picture can be utilized by the respective browsers. It is possible to implement corrections of a batch of photos. This automatic wizard can take care of under-exposure, noise, red eye and noise removal. A complete editor named dark room tool has a whole lot of edit tools and several export options. Dark Room tool offers a complete set of enhancement tools and export options. Even when you do not like the edit effects, there’s nothing lost. The original is not modified while the output is saved as a enhancement parameters associated with that image.

Optimized output quality is claimed to be 1.5 times better/smaller file than other JPEG converters. Distribute images through the built in e-mail tool within the application or through a CD or even a slide show created through the package. These can be auto-run, create an executable or save as screensaver. You can use music as you choose. Web albums created can be saved locally or do FTP to a website. Panoramic photo creation is done automatically, The application can recognize related photos, reject the ones that do not match and create a seamless view.

Cons: No particular problems noticed.

Overall the set of functionality is good, it is easy to use and rates a 4 star level.

This freeware program allows you to import, organize, automatically enhance and share photos. STOIK Imagic 4.0 Free Browser automatically organizes photos and videos scattered all over your computer. New very fast indexing algorithm scans thousands of image and video files in few minutes. You can access your media files either using the Folder Browser, Calendar Browser or Tags Browser. Powerful Improvement Wizard will quickly solve common quality problems with the photos such as underexposure, noise, red eye, wrong orientation. Select multiple photos, launch the wizard, and photos will be taken through a quality enhancement pipeline. Dark Room tool offers a complete set of enhancement tools and export options. In the Dark Room all image adjustments are saved as a set of enhancement parameters associated with the image, the original image is always kept intact. Advanced JPEG export in Imagic Dark Room allows optimizing the output image quality, and provides significant - up to 1.5 times - reduction of JPEG file size compared to same quality JPEGs created with other software tools. STOIK Imagic 4.0 Free Browser offers a one-click panorama creator. You only need to select the photos and run Panorama command; the software will automatically sort photos, exclude non-matching photos, and automatically build a seamlessly stitched panorama image. You can to send photos by e-mail, burn them on CD, create web album and dynamic slide show. Imagic Browser gives you advanced printing options so that you can optimize print layout to save paper space, select different print sizes and options with instant preview. Dynamic slide shows can be played with music, saved as an executable, sent via e-mail, burned to CD, or used as a screensaver. Web Album can be saved on your computer, CD or uploaded to your web site