Pictomio - free photo software for fast 3D graphics cards

Pictomio is a software application for managing, categorizing, searching, and archiving photos and other media files, and allows you to generate animated 2D and 3D slideshows making full use of your Graphic Port.The requirements itself proves that Pictomio requires a graphics card with ShaderModel 2.0 and a minimum of 128 MB video RAM.And the best part of it is that Pictomio is a freeware.The Pictomio software is composed of three parts:

A photo browser and slideshow editor.
A slideshow viewer and
A slideshow screensaver.

Features :

Image Management : Conveniently mange entire photo libraries and archives with several thousand images.
Exif-Editor : The integrated editor allows you to view, edit, and save meta data associated with JPEG files.
Liquid - Zoom : Smooth high-quality zooming, utilizing mip levels to reduce aliasing, allows you to continuously zoom into your photos.
3D Image Carousel : Scroll through your photos quickly and easily by flipping through our 3D image carousel. Use your mouse to specify the direction in which you want your photos to move.
Tool : Web designers can utilize the color pipette and the measuring tool to determine the color values of pixels and precisely measure any section of a photo.
Slideshows : Create slideshows simply by using drag-and-drop Elaborate transitions by utilizing of the capabilities of modern 3D graphics cards.
Image Rating : The rating system uses smileys, which makes rating your photos quick and easy.
Library : Use the library to sort your photos by date, rating or category .
Tagging support : An arbitrary number of tags can be attached to individual pixel positions or to an image as whole.
Search functionality : You can enter search terms in the search box at the top right of the Pictomio main window. The text you enter is searched in several attributes of the image files, e.g. filename, tags, categories, albums, description etc.
Video & audio-playback : Simple video and audio-files can be played in the zoom-view and in the carrousel view (even with a mirror-effect on the virtual floor).
Image information collapsible window : A collapsible window in the main window shows the most important information about an image and lets you consistently change rating, annotation, categories and global image tags from one central place in the application.
Start external applications to edit an image : You can start your image editing programms that are registered for its file-type. Click with the right mouse button on an image and select "Open with.. “like Windows Explorer”." from the context-menu that appears.