Performance and usability

Do they play nicely?

Don’t confuse the photo managers in this Roundup with your simple everyday image viewers. As you’ve seen, they pack in a lot of functionality and that can present a couple of issues. For starters, all the features and add-ons can slow some of them down to a crawl. Handling images might not seem like a resourceintensive task, but categorising and editing photos, however minutely, can put considerable strain on your computer’s resources. Second, the more features an