Album Shaper for Windows

A simple-to-use photo album creator, Album Shaper is well-suited to beginning digital photographers, but likely will disappoint those with designer ambitions.

The program installs and loads simply, supporting a wide variety of languages. Its interface is well-designed, and should present few hurdles even to the most tech-phobic users. Once images are loaded, they can be edited, rotated or flipped, or enhanced with features such as brightness, red-eye removal, and histogram manipulation. Albums can be annotated with a name, description and author.

However, the program suffers a bit when it comes to album design, with few options for changing layout. This can give the resulting products an amateurish air unworthy of the program's otherwise user-friendly feel. On the whole, we'd recommend the software to users who want a hassle-free way to organize and display photos, but experienced photographers and designers likely will want more power.