Growly Photo is an image file organizer and photo enhancer. The tool offers to organize your photo collection into groups and folders of your choice, so that you can find your favorite pictures simply by searching for them using specific criteria.
The program opens with a clear-cut interface that provides both image thumbnail preview – within a specific folder – and a larger display when selected. The main window can be enlarged and respectively narrowed simply by dragging the window's edges. Organizing files is done easily via custom groups and folders that feature a tree-like structure. The tool gives you free hand to make as many groups and folders as you wish. Once they are created and renamed, you just need to drag selected photos or entire folders of image files into the desired folders. The application comes with a smart search engine that allows you to easily identify the photos you are looking for. Thus, you can search for files by key words and caption details.
The utility provides several editing options that let you customize the appearance of your photos. Therefore, you can crop the image using already-configured and custom sizes. Unfortunately, the feature is available exclusively from the drop-down menu, as the corresponding button placed on the main window is idle. What you will definitely appreciate about this tool is the wide range of effects that it lets you apply to your photos. They are quite comprehensive and will give your photos an exquisite look. Furthermore, you can make enhancements in terms of brightness, saturation, and color contrast, as well as correct the inclination angle.
To sum up, Growly Photo helps you organize your photo collections and adjust the appearance of your images. The adjustments you make won’t affect the original files, as the results are saved as new images with a .jpg, .pdf, .tif, or .png extension.
v1.1 [Dec 18, 2014]
- When dragging an image from the thumbnail list, the actual photo is dragged instead of just the thumbnail.
- If you use the keyboard to navigate in the preview window, the control panel is hidden so it doesn’t obscure the photos. It will come back if you move the mouse over where it was.
- The Edit menu has a submenu for all defined effect sets. The sets are automatically assigned function keys.
- The photo count for folders is easier to read when the folder is selected, especially on 10.10 Yosemite.
- Other bug fixes.
