At the moment, I'm feeling particular pain from Microsoft's decision to pull their Photo Manager out of Office 2016. In particular, I've been really missing a simple tool to select a few image thumbnails in a directory and do simple modifications such as size and rotation. As such I came back to cPicture despite some concerns about the license. I was both surprised by the remarkable amount of functionality and the rather odd interface/usability versus standard Windows programs.
Steps: download, unzip, launch
cPicture.exe, close and move the contents of
C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\cPicture to the local folder.
Status:
Not portable. Writes to empty folder to
AppData and (unlike suggested above) various keys to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\TheCloud. This falls under the "noinstall" category as the program doesn't include an installer but doesn't keep itself to the local folder. Version tested: 3.8
Notable Features
* Lossless functions for crop and rotate.
* Simple batch operations (select thumbnails and run operation).
* Change/remove metadata.
* Available map based on location metadata.
* Video: basic viewing and - if you have ffmpeg installed - transformations.
* Detects image files within a given folder rather than making you jump through various folders looking for files.
* Basic file conversion BMP, TIFF, PNG, JPEG, (no compression options for PNG).
* Dupliate and image checker. In my (not exaustive) tests, it worked well.
* Works as a great launchpad for other image editors (has an "open with" menu for selected programs).
Problems
* No undo function after running a rotate/crop action.
* Weird placement of help / info menu under blue object where the "file" menu is usually located (its not labeled). It's the same destination as clicking "Help" under the "Other" tab.
* Some items in the ribbon are grayed out and it's not clear what's available and what's not until you hover your mouse over the feature.
* "Similar" image finder didn't work at all on my machine. Just showed me some images that didn't look at all alike.
Wishlist
* Ability to use search outide the
\USER\Pictures folder
* Spacebar play/pause video
* More PNG/JPEG compression options
* Create picture webpage option - ability to save to native format (right now insists on moving everything to JPEG)
* Open license
* PDF edit functionality (this might be asking too much)
License: Still freeware (see EULA discussion above). A pro version is mentioned, but I believe that's just for donations
Softpedia:
https://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedi ... ture.shtml