ideal for taking control of huge collections of images and digital photos, photophilia uses thumbnail caching, read-ahead logic, and multi-threading to let you move effortlessly through thousands of files. after creating thumbnails of your images, photophilia lets you browse and search your collection without having to swap cds or removable disks. using a multi-pane explorer-style layout and familiar concepts such as thumbnails, categories, bookmarks, and favorites, it's quick and easy to find and view images scattered across your hard drives and removable media. the program can scan your hard drives, get images from cds, removable drives, from digital cameras and scanners (twain) and organize them into albums. features: * the main window can contain up to four customizable panes: directory tree, file list, thumbnails, thumbnails with data, data entry form (including categories, exif, and custom data), image view. * the categories pane lets you assign categories to the images with a click. * you can customize the size of thumbnails, compression method (jpeg or bmp) and their appearance. * clipboard and drag-and-drop operations support. * full screen mode with up to 9 images at the same time. * templates for text captions in the full screen and slide show. * image effects that can be saved as attached data and applied on image loading: brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, rotate, vertical/horizontal flip. * multipage files editing: insert/append/delete/replace/move pages. * looks like™ - search the same images. you can set the matching factor, search horizontally flipped images, select the more careful or fast search. * scenario editor allows you to edit, save and load batch processing scenarios. * you can use your image collection as a screensaver. * wallpaper changer allows your desktop wallpaper to change automatically and lets you create calendar events/reminders. * file types manager allows you control file extensions on your system.