Best free PC / Mac photo album manager

Characteristic of the best photo album managers, on PC and Mac, 100% free: (in English).

What we were looking for at least the features below, and all 100% freeware:

• display by thumbnails (and without reorganizing the hard drive!),
• crop, resize, change contrast, etc.
• renaming by batch

We have found!

Best photo album manager

Best free photo album manager for PC: FastStone

FastStone‘s main features:

• Browser and image viewer with a familiar Windows Explorer-like user interface
• Genuine full-screen viewer with image zoom support and unique drop-down menu panels.
• Clear and customizable image clipping with one click.
• Powerful image editing tools: resize/resample, rotate/flip, crop, sharpen/blur, adjust lighting/color/curve/level, etc.
• Eleven resampling algorithms to choose from when resizing images.
• Image color effects: grayscale, sepia, negative, red/green/blue adjustment.
• Special image effects: annotation, drop shadow, framing, bump map, sketch, oil painting, lens.
• Draw text, lines, highlights, rectangles, ovals and callout objects on images.
• Cloning stamp and healing brush
• Superior removal/reduction of the “red eye” effect with a totally natural end result
• Multi-level undo/redo function
• Support for displaying the image at full size or best size with one touch.
• Image management, including tagging, with drag and drop and copy/move to folder functionality.
• Histogram display with color counting function
• Side-by-side image comparison (up to 4 at a time) to easily eliminate missed shots.
• Support for EXIF metadata of images (plus comment editing for JPEGs)
• Configurable batch processing to convert/rename small or large collections of images.
• Create slideshows with over 150 transition effects and music support (MP3, WMA, WAV…)
• Create effective attachments to send emails to your family and friends.
• Print images with full layout control
• Create fully configurable contact sheets
• Create memorable art montages from your family photos to make custom wallpapers (Wallpaper Anywhere).
• Acquire images from a scanner. Support batch scanning to PDF, TIFF, JPEG and PNG.
• Versatile screen capture capability
• Powerful Save As interface to compare image quality and control generated file size.
• Run your favorite programs with one touch from Image Viewer.
• Provide a portable version of the program that can be run from a removable storage device.
• Support configurable de la molette de la souris
• Prise en charge de plusieurs habillages de programme
• Prise en charge des configurations à double moniteur
• Prise en charge de l’interface tactile (toucher, glisser, pincer)
• Et bien plus encore…

Best photo album manager for Mac: PhotoScape X

PhotoScapeX main features:

• Rotation, Straightening, Resizing, Cropping, Color Adjustment, Color Temperature,
• Film Effect, Auto Level, Auto Contrast, Backlight Correction, Blur, Vigilance,
• Accentuation, Blur, White balance, Curves, Levels, Color balance, Sepia, Grayscale, Black and white, Negative,
• Text object, Image object, Brush, Effect brush, Mosaic brush, Red eye correction, Clone stamp.
• Picture browser, Full screen viewer, Batch rename, Batch resize, Batch format change, Lossless save, Sharing
• (email, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa, Flickr), Exif viewer.
• Share on social networks: Facebook, Twitter, Picasa, Flickr.
• View your photos in full screen or as a slideshow.
• Attach multiple photos vertically or horizontally to create a final photo.
• Create animated GIFs.
• Capture your screenshot and save it.
• Zoom in on images, search and choose a color.
• Edit photo file names in batch mode

Good free PC and Mac photo album manage: XNViewMP

XNViewMP key Features:

• ThumVue bnail
• Full screen view
• FilmStrip view
• Slideshow with special effects
• Compare images
• Resize, rotate, crop
• Lossless rotation and cropping (jpeg)
• Adjust brightness, contrast, …
• Auto levels, Auto contrast
• Modify color depth and palette
• Apply filters and effects
• Slideshows
• Web pages
• Contact sheets
• Video thumbnail gallery
• File lists
• Image strip
• Metadata support and editing (IPTC)
• Lossless JPEG transformations
• Duplicate file search
• Batch processing
• Batch renaming
• Print module