CNET Editors' review
Just about everybody has a digital camera or picture-taking cell phone, to judge by the number of photo editors out there. Manatee's PhotoWham stands out from the crowd with a unique angle: You set your resizing, renaming, and watermark preferences once, and then drag and drop single images, folders, or whole batches of files for quick, automatic processing. It can add specific text to the beginning or end of file names and save to specific directories.
This compact tool has one of the simplest interfaces we've ever tested: just a main display and two buttons--one activating a settings dialog, the other a file browser--and a link to a Web-based Help file and FAQs. We opted to start by changing the output directory but otherwise tried the default settings, which append images with -800 and add a basic watermark. PhotoWham converted a folder full of JPEGs in blistering time, and the new images opened in every viewer we tried, except, strangely, Photoshop. The watermark dialog lets you adjust the font properties, color, and style, but though watermarks can be any text, including a copyright symbol, you can't use an image or symbol. One feature we did like is the ability to specify a maximum length for the long edge of each photo, which is great for sizing pictures for galleries or Web sites.
PhotoWham is free for home users. It works in the latest versions of Windows, including Windows 7. It's one of the simplest but most efficient digital photo resizers we've tried.
Publisher's Description
From Manatee Software:
PhotoWham puts an end to the repetitive tasks required to resize, rename, and watermark your digital photos and image files. Set your preferences once, and then simply drag and drop batches of photos to the form or even the icon to batch process your images. Or if you prefer to process entire folders, choose a folder and sit back and watch. Features: Resize by entering a maximum size for the long edge of the photo, rename by prepending or appending text, send output images to a specified directory or subdirectory, add a watermark to the images - this can be any text, including a copyright symbol, adjust JPEG quality for smaller file sizes.
What's new in this version: Version 1.6 includes unspecified updates.
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All versions:
4.3 starsout of 6 votes
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Current version:
4.2 starsout of 4 votes
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"Great Photo Application for the Whole family"
Version: PhotoWham 1.6
Pros
The family deals with digital photos from phones, point/ shoot small cameras and Dads fancy Nikon, this program does them all and allows them to be share everywhere without going technical. Even the 10 year old quickly mastered it. Easy interface too
Cons
Haven't found one yet..
Summary
Great free program, that will quickly resize, in batch or single any photo. Easy for anyone to use, and did I mentioned its free.
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"Simple "No-Frills" application"
Version: PhotoWham 1.6
Pros
Easy to use. Free.
Cons
No options, too limited
Summary
Installed it, looked at it, tried it, uninstalled it. The program has too limited options, is too simple and too basic for most users.
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"Works great; as advertised."
Version: PhotoWham 1.6
Pros
Works great, does what is stated. I have others, but this is my favorite. I love the copyright line.
Cons
Wish there was more versatility with the copyright line.
Summary
Great. Love it!
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"Awesome program!"
Version: PhotoWham 1.6
Pros
Does everything easily. Drop the photos and it automatically outputs them in the right size.
Cons
No contest menu modification.
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