
You may alternatively use your mouse wheel to zoom in and out. Manual zooming is possible through the slide control either by dragging the knob or clicking the +/- controls. Clicking the now facing arrows again, will switch back to the previous display mode.
Tile vertical (left-right separation: original left, optimized right)Ĭlicking the two opposite facing arrows will hide the folder and file browser panes leaving more room for the preview pane. Tile horizontal (top-bottom separation: original top, optimized bottom). The split screen view supports four different display modes accessible through the arrow symbol next to the star icon. The separator line is draggable to adjust the split view as needed. This makes it easy to compare the before and after states of an optimization as demonstrated in the screenshot above with the original dull image on the left and the optimized vivid image on the right. The view bar offers a special functions to customize the split screen that offers an integrated before-and-after view. Here, you may supervise the success of the optimization and access the optimize controls.ģ: These are the available function categories.Ĥ: Functions from the currently selected category appear here. You can then process each folder as a separate project.ġ: The thumbnail browser is used for folder navigation and displays miniature previews for the contained images.Ģ: The preview pane provides a preview of the selected picture. If you need to optimize more than 1,000 images, we recommend creating separate subfolders with each containing a maximum of 1000 files. If you try to add more files than that to a project, you will see the following message:
You won't find oil, watercolor, mosaic, sketch, emboss and other effects that are common in similar software.Īshampoo Photo Optimizer 6 is a suitable photo managing tool with some basic editing and optimizing tools, but probably too basic for more advanced users.Due to technical constraints, the program can process a maximum of 1,000 images in one go. Though the variety of tools and image effects has improved since the last version, it lacks basic editing tools such as resizing and cropping, and the choice of photo effects is a bit poor compared to other photo managers. On the downside, Ashampoo Photo Optimizer 6 still falls short of expectations. This helps you easily check the results of any change you apply to your photos, as Ashampoo Photo Optimizer 6 displays the results in real time. The interface in Ashampoo Photo Optimizer 6 is divided into three panels, which show the folder structure, the contents of the selected folder and the current picture, respectively.