Ashampoo Photo commander versions have been passing here for some time now. This new version seems to be a bigger change in the workflow than previous versions according to several reviews. This is how PC12 looks in "explorermode" with dark skin: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11463671/gotd/photcom12/00.JPG (With the very very small sprocket wheel to can choose between display options.)
This is the editor interface: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11463671/gotd/photcom12/00c.JPG
There are two bars, one menbar blue with uppercase letters, but small, and a big letter buttonbar. They don't seem to communicate with each other like in offices ribbon bar. Tried some things like cropping a picture. There are 4 options.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11463671/gotd/photcom12/01crop.JPG
Rectangular select works logically. but the freestyle crop only produces a menu (after closing the selection) without a crop option...
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11463671/gotd/photcom12/02crop.JPG
Contrast and colors: very easily set, but in the dark skin very difficult to see. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11463671/gotd/photcom12/03contrastcolors.JPG
There are lots of effects, https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11463671/gotd/photcom12/03effects.JPG , but sadly you can only set the strength. There is for instance a dotted mesh effect, but you can not set the size of the dots...
There are some nice features like the color accent feature. Choose a color and only that color will show in the picture, rest will be greyscale. But... I was somewhat baffled by the way it operates: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11463671/gotd/photcom12/04.JPG
Well, some optimizing then, it should offer a lot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11463671/gotd/photcom12/07.JPG
Strangely optimizing is not done with a before and after picture standardly, you have to set it manually to do that.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11463671/gotd/photcom12/08.JPG . I found it irritating that it often sets itself back to "compare off" mode.
My conclusion: There are a lot of functions, but frustratingly I could not find a general way for things to work (so working intuitively was possible). The uppercase small type menu, and the big type bar below don't seem to interact logically. The very simple functions i tried were implemented in a way that I really needed the directions in the windows that popped up; few things worked intuitive and logical in this program. I can't determine what is the use of this program. In my opinion the picture/movie manager part of the interface is not very well thought of. As a picture editor there are some nice features but very few settings available to give it the personal effect. I like ashampoo products a lot but this is not one of them. To me, version 12 is a step down.

Calimero  –  10 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+71)

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Have been keeping a copy of Ashampoo Photo Commander in my PC since version 7.
Been stepping through the changes to Version 8, 9, 10, 11 and now 12.
But nowadays mostly use ACDSee Photo Manager. The other good Photo manager is Zoner.

ric  –  10 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+44)

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Slightly annoyed because I bought this from Ashampoo less than a month ago.

Personally I don't think its as good as programs like Picasa or Zoner, it definitely doesn't handle large collections on network drives very well, keeps saying "not responding".

BlackKnight_UK  –  10 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+22)

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The program claims to be "ideal for professional use", but this is most certainly an overstatement. No 16-bit colour depth support by itself means it is useless "for professional use". I can't say whether it is "easy to use", everything is very basic. Metadata handling is pathetic, it looses everything from the raw file and it can only write some iptc tags, without utf-8 as an option. Made me angry, like versions 9 and 10 did. Zoner is something completely different. This one will be uninstalled immediately.

Jacal  –  10 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+14)

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