Zoner Photo Studio Free

Snapping a picture is a relatively simple process; just point your camera or your camera phone and snap. Managing, editing and sharing your collection of pictures on the other hand can prove to be a bit more challenging. The Zone Photo Studio Free comes to your aid by helping you navigate those challenges. It comes with all the photo managing and editing a home user needs.

At 22.5MB, the Zone Photo Studio Free download isn’t that large; on a high-speed internet connection you will not have to wait long for the download to complete. The installation process of Zone Photo Studio Free will not take long either. A setup wizard will present you with two installation options: Express Installation (suitable for most users; keeps factory values for all installation settings) and Custom Installation (intended for advanced users; you can manually set the installation path, desktop shortcut). Once the installation is complete, your default browser will launch and you will be directed to a “Thank you” page.

The setup wizard makes it easy to install Zone Photo Studio Free – which is nice. What’s even nicer is that the first time you run Zone Photo Studio Free you will be presented with a First Run Wizard that will lead you step-by-step through the basic program configuration. You will be asked if you want to import settings from previous Zone Photo Studio versions, you will be asked to select the folder where you keep your pictures, choose if you want to launch the Viewer or the Editor when double-clicking a thumbnail in the browser, and specify which files should open automatically in Zoner Photo Studio Free. You will go through a simple process of setting up Zoner Photo Studio Free’s interface and controls.

Zoner Photo Studio Free’s interface is attractive (it has a dark theme that I quite enjoyed) and it is precisely what you would expect to get from an application of this type. There are large panes to preview your images and plenty of buttons to provide quick access to Zoner Photo Studio Free’s functionality. Speaking of functionality, you can view your image files, edit them (crop, add text, add filters and effects, blur, enhance colors, assign GPS information, and more), upload them to Facebook, Picasa of Flickr, or create panoramas, 3D images and postcards. And there are tons of customization options to make Zoner Photo Studio Free’s functionality fit your needs and tastes.

Zoner Photo Studio Free, as its name so adequately points out, is free. You don’t have to part with your money to use this application for as long as you want – you have to part with a bit of functionality though. The paid version Zoner Photo Studio Pro comes with some extra functionality: advanced photo corrections, advanced RAW processing module, HDR photo wizard, and several other Pro-only features.

Developer Zoner Software has a winning combination: an application that looks good and provides you with all the tools that you need to manage, edit, and share your images. Zoner Photo Studio Free is nothing short of impressive.