PhotoScape

Description

Mooii Tech released PhotoScape for Windows in the mid-2000s as a free, all-in-one photo editing suite that combined tools that normally required separate applications: a photo viewer, an editor with filters and effects, a batch processor, a collage maker, a GIF creator, a screen capture tool, and a RAW converter — all in a tabbed interface for free. The combination and the price led to widespread adoption, especially in East Asia where the software originated, and PhotoScape built up a large user base among casual photographers and bloggers who needed more than a basic viewer but less than a professional editor.

Mooii Tech later created PhotoScape X as a redesigned successor for the Windows Store and macOS App Store, featuring a new interface and non-destructive editing capabilities. The original version of PhotoScape 3.7 is still available as a free download for Windows users who prefer the classic version.

Photo Editor

The editor uses filters, color corrections, and effects on individual photos. Color correction controls include brightness, contrast, saturation, sharpness, and color balance. Film-style filters add vintage, cross-process, and moody looks in a single click. Effects include bloom, vignette, tilt-shift blur, noise reduction, and watermark overlay. The editor works non-destructively in PhotoScape X — adjustments store as editable parameters rather than making permanent changes to the pixel data — while the classic version applies changes to the image directly.

Batch Editor

The batch editor makes the same adjustments, filters, resizing, renaming, and converting image format to a folder of images at once. Users choose a source folder, set the transformation — resize to a maximum width, add a watermark, convert to jpg, apply a brightness adjustment — and the batch processor writes the results to an output folder. Batch processing is suitable for photographers who want to prepare a series of photos for uploading to the web: resizing all photos to web size, adding a copyright watermark, and converting from RAW or TIFF to JPG in one step.

Collage Maker

The collage tool is used to arrange multiple photos in template-based grid layouts or free-form arrangements. Templates include standard grid configurations, heart shapes, circular arrangements, and mosaic layouts. Each cell in the template accepts a photo dragged from the file browser. Border width, cell gap, background color, and shadow settings customize the look of the collage. Finished collages export as a configured output resolution as a jpg file.

Combine Photos

The combine tool stitches multiple photos into one image laid out either vertically or horizontally — creating contact sheets, before-and-after comparisons, or simple multi-photo layouts without the template constraints of the collage maker.

GIF Animator

The GIF animator is used to create animated GIFs from a series of photos or from a series of screen captures. Each frame adds from file browser or from screen capture tool, frame duration sets per frame or globally. The output exports as an animated gif file that can be embedded in the web and on social media.

RAW Converter

The RAW converter processes camera RAW files from common DSLR and mirrorless camera manufacturers — Canon CR2, Nikon NEF, Sony ARW, and others — into the standard formats of JPG or other standard formats. Basic exposure and white balance adjustments are made during the RAW conversion.

Viewer

The built-in photo viewer shows images from any folder with keyboard navigation between photos, basic zoom controls, display of the EXIF data, and slideshow playback. The viewer opens rapidly for browsing a folder without entering the full editor.

Screen Capture

The screen capture tool captures the whole screen, a selected window, or a user-defined rectangular region and saves the capture to a file or opens it directly in the editor for annotation or cropping.

Paper Print

The paper print layout tool arranges photos in passport photo grids, ID photo templates and standard print size layouts for printing multiple small photos on a single sheet.