There are many image and photo editors on the market, from the commercial Aperture or Adobe Lightroom, through to the many freeware alternatives. Some are well designed; some are not so well designed. As a basic rule, they need to be able to support as many digital cameras as possible, so you can import your photos directly in to the application, as well as enabling you to import and edit your RAW images.

To go to the next level, you need to start implementing innovative features in to your photo manager. For instance, ‘Cover Flow’ within Apple software, which you’ll soon find in iPhoto and it’s already implemented in the iPods to enable you to browse your photos.

Pictomio is a new photo manager and editor that includes a number of unique features. Designed in a way that makes it appear as if it’s competing with the commercial Adobe Lightroom, it is predominatly a black interface. It contains all the usual information, informing you of the source of your photos and much more. It ships with basic tools to enable you to enhance your photos. You can also export, create a slideshow and share photos.

Pictomio is one of the first non-Apple applications that implements a cover flow type of photo-browsing, that enables you to quickly move from one photo to another, as if you are browsing through them in a carusel format.