Helicon Photo Safe

Helicon Photo Safe is all-in-one solution for image management. We made it completely FREE! Download the current version here. Its facilities include:

• Categorization of images, which is similar to creation of virtual folders or assigning tags
• Encryption/decryprion of images in safes
• Image rating, that can be used for grouping, sorting, filtering or search
• Editing of IPTC fields (title, caption, copyright, location, etc)
• Very handy two-panels layout like in Total Commander
• Viewing of EXIF fileds and hystogram
• Lossless image rotation
• Import of images from a camera or another device with Helicon Importer tool
• Full screen image viewer and slideshow tool
• Integrated CD/DVD burner
• Image search by flexible criteria
• Image grouping by calendar dates
• Ability to work with a huge number of images where other image managers would crash

The unique features of Photo Safe among other image management software are:

• The functionality called "safes" allows encrypting and decrypting secret images on your computer. Images remain in their initial location, but become not-viewable for all other programs. Encryption can be done with three diferent algorithms which differ in complexity and speed. One of the options is a password protected ZIP archiving. All "safes" are password protected. Read more about safes here.


• The unique "two panels" layout allows handy drag-and-drop operations between folders and categories and prohotvide better overview: you see images from two folders or categories at once. This layout is borrowed from popular file managers like Total Commander, Far, etc.

Photo Safe can make your image management process more simple, elegant and professional. It is integrated with Helicon Filter - the software for image editing. The two programs are good companions for image management plus image editing - all from one vendor Helicon Soft.

Helicon Photo Safe supports a lot of image formats including different RAW formats:

• Bitmaps (bmp)
• JPEG (jpg; jpeg)
• JPEG 2000 (jp2)
• TIFF (tiff; tif)
• Graphics Interchange Format (gif)
• Adobe Photoshop (psd)
• Digital NeGative (dng)
• Foveon X3F (x3f)
• FujiFilm RAF (raf)
• Canon Raw (crw; cr2)
• Kodak PDC formats
• Leica Digilux 2 RAW
• Minolta Raw (mrw)
• Nikon NEF (nef)
• Olympus Raw (orf)
• Pentax *ist D PEF (pef)
• Sony Raw (srf)
• Sony PMP (pmp)

Image Importer

Helicon Importer copies images from any disk or external USB device. It quickly generates thumbnails of images and you can select which images to import. You can set patterns for naming of folders and images which is handy because after import you get them properly named.

CD/DVD Burner

The CD/DVD burner is integrated into the Photo Safe which makes it very handy for burning images. Just right-click a folder or a category and images are added to a new disk, click “burn” and in a few minutes you have the disk ready.

Full-Screen Viewer

You can browse images full screen or organize a slideshow with different interesting effects.

Helicon "Safes"

Safe – is a way to hide your images from others. Images which you put into a safe turn into encrypted files with *.ENC or *.ZIP extensions and remain in the same folder where they are. But it is not possible to open them in any image viewer neither to browse them in Photo Safe without knowing the password. You can choose between three algorithms for encryption/decryption.

1. Protection against advanced users
   
   Content of the image is encrypted based on the user password. Special knowledge and software is needed to break encryption and open the image without the password.
   Pros: high speed, high level of security
   Cons: potentially can be cracked by security experts
   


2. Protection againts security experts
   
   Bank-level encryption is applied so it is impossible to open the image without knowing the password.
   Pros: very high level of security
   Cons: slower than other methods, impossible to decrypt image if password lost and password recovery feature cannot be used for some reason.


3. ZIP with password protection

   Pros: you can open it on computers which don’t have Helicon Photo Safe.
   Cons: algorithms for breaking protection of ZIP files are quite popular.

Password recovery for a safe

If you lost a password to your safe, you can write an email to the Helicon Soft support (support@heliconsoft.com) and attach one of the encrypted images from your safe. The password will be sent to the email, which you specified in the properties of your safe; if you wrote to the support from a different e-mail, the password will still be sent to the e-mail which is specified in the safe’s properties.

Helicon Soft owns a unique private key which allows us to decrypt any file encrypted with Photo Safe. We use this key only to recover lost passwords and do not disclose it to anyone.