May 17th, 2020: We are thrilled to announce the new major release of Phototheca – Phototheca 2020 Productivity Pack! In this release, the team put all efforts to improve the performance and usability of the software for the daily routines of organizing, managing, and enjoying photo collections and digital memories. Dozens of features were …
Photo editing tools are essential for amateur and pro photographers alike. There’s a wide range of products that allow you to retouch, merge, or sort through pictures. It’s crucial to distinguish professional feature powerhouses like Photoshop or Lightroom and basic tools like Canva that help beginning designers create visuals in a matter of minutes. Today …
iPhoto has millions of users caught in an upgrade quagmire. Apple ceased development on the software and replaced it with another in 2015. The software became unusable with the October 2019 upgrade release of macOS Catalina 10.15. Since it requires an older version of Mac or iOS to operate, iPhoto is a liability. Additionally, it …
Regardless of how powerful their shooting gear is, a photographer can hardly capture a ready-to-print shot without having to tweak it in post-processing. There are too many factors to consider when taking pictures — it’s impossible to control the smallest details on the spot. To fine-tune the brightness and saturation of the shot, remove the …
If you want to start editing some photos, then your Internet searches may guide you towards Picasa, iPhoto, and Phototheca. After all, these are some of the best photo editing pieces of software that you can find out there. If you want to start editing some photos, then your Internet searches may guide you towards …
Editing photos is useful for capturing and bringing out the beauty of every shot. Other than removing shadows, color casts, and tweaking brightness, photographers can change the dimension of the picture and reduce the overall size file to increase the publishing speed. If you’re looking for a one-click editor, check this On1 vs Photolemur comparison. …
In this review, we are going to compare three photo organizer software products that are available on the market and try to understand what suits best for professional and amateurs photographers. We compare Lightroom and Mylio, Mylio, and Phototheca. Hopefully, this review can help to understand what software to select – Mylio or Lightroom or …
There is a lot of confusion, misconception, and myths around photo editing. Most photography enthusiasts think editing tools are expensive or difficult to master. That’s why beginners usually don’t go beyond advanced retouching tools or end up on not fine-tuning pictures at all. While the most feature-heavy, high-functional tools are much harder to master, there’s …
You probably already know that Lightroom, LightZone, and Phototheca are quite popular when it comes to photo editing and management services software. If you know someone that edits photography or such, then they’re most likely using one of these three pieces of software. Let’s take a short look at the services provided by each of …
In this review, we compare three photo editing programs that are available on the market and try to understand what suits best for professional and amateurs photographers. We compare InPixio and Photoshop, InPixio, and Phototheca. Hopefully, this review can help to understand what software to select – InPixio or Photoshop or Phototheca to improve photos. …
Retouching makes a world of difference when it comes to photography. Instead of piling the pictures up on your SD card, consider tweaking them to make the most out of every shot you took. There are many tools on the market — you might be a bit confused when trying to choose the best and …
Though Phototheca has no multi-user capabilities to work with a same library over a network — you still can utilize a few features to have the workaround and particular imitate network access to a single library. If you have your photo’s stored on a network drive in Folder X – and if you install the …
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When you delete a duplicate – Phototheca does not touch and does not delete files on disk, Phototheca removes a thumbnail from the Library only. When you click Delete all button – Phototheca removes all duplicated thumbnails from the Library, keeping one thumbnail per every duplicate in an Event where it appears first. Read more: …
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Phototheca Free has a limit of 5,000 images total in Library. Phototheca Home has limits of 100,000 images total in Library. Phototheca Pro has limits of 250,000 images total in Library. Phototheca Premium has no limits.
Phototheca has the feature Live Album that works in a next way: you create a Live Album and specify a list of sources(folders) that are used to populate the album. Since you have such an album is created, Phototheca does regular lookup(every few minutes) in those folders for new images. When new images are detected …
It’s very easy to send photos by email or share online with Phototheca. Just use appropriate buttons on the toolbar. Read more: Export photos
To export all your photos from Phototheca – select all Events, go to menu File- >Export… click “Export” button and select a target folder where to export – Phototheca will copy all photos into specified folder. After export of events is completed – repeat this for Albums. To save an album on disk or USB …
Yes, Phototheca supports XMP editing and filtering what relates to keywords and descriptions. When you tag a photo with keywords in Phototheca, keywords are written into XMP and IPTC metadata sections of a JPEG file. When you do the import of photos containing keywords in the XMP section, such keywords are recognized and let you …
Phototheca can read both RAW and video formats. Phototheca supports RAW file formats via the Windows Imaging Component (WIC) framework supported in Windows 7, Windows 8 and later versions of Windows. Refer to this article for more details: RAW in Phototheca Read more: What formats does Phototheca support?
Phototheca can not import photos from iPhoto directly. However, if you copy photos from iPhoto to Windows PC and run the import in Phototheca – it will create events automatically, creating one event per one folder or one event per one day, depending on the selected option. The result of this import can be pretty …
Phototheca is Windows and PC only. But don’t worry — on Mac or iPad you can use great Apple Photos software – Apple Photos
You easily can transfer photos from Picasa to Phototheca. Basically, to get your photos from Picasa to Phototheca you don’t need to do anything special. Just run Phototheca, go to menu item File->Import to Library, then browse to the folder with your photos, select one or many folders and press the Import button – that’s …
An Event is a collection of photos that takes a period in time when it happened and has a date of start and date of the end. For instance, photos of a birthday party or a vacation. An Event can be displayed on the Timeline. An Album – is a collection of photos that has …
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Your photos remain at their original locations on disks after imported to Phototheca. Phototheca does not create copies of photos and does not move photos. To find where your photos are located – do right-click on single photo and select Open In Explorer menu item – this will bring Windows Explorer with the folder where …
Phototheca stores tags (keywords) in the IPTC section of JPEG metadata inside the JPEG file. This means tags are kept when you copy files and tags can be read by any software what supports IPTC standard like Photoshop, Aperture, Lightroom, Picasa, Windows Photo Live Gallery and various online photo sharing sites. Phototheca respects XMP sidecar …
If you keep your photos on NAS(Network-attached Storage) or on network servers in an organization and don’t want Phototheca to make local copies of photos – you easily can switch this off. Go to menu Edit->Settings->Advanced and make sure check-mark “Do not copy photos from network shares” is turned on. Read more: Import from network …
To change the sequence of images inside Event or Album use menu View->Sort photos. There you can change sort order option of thumbnails inside events and albums.
To move Phototheca library files into another location — go to the menu File->Manage Library… and click Change button against the “Database Location” text box. Read more: Change Phototheca Library location
Phototheca has feature “Live Albums” that let you track the content of any folders on local or network drives. For details on how to set up a Live Album, please refer to this Live Album FAQ article. Read more: Live Albums | Phototheca User Guide
To find photos by keywords in Phototheca – use Keywords panel, to open Keywords panel – click the button with key icon at the left bottom side of the window or use menu “View -> Keywords panel”. When the panel is opened the first time – it works in edit mode and lets you add …
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