What you can do, though, is adjust brightness, contrast, gamma, and crop your images, in addition to rotating them, as shown in Figure D. Surprisingly, there's no color or saturation control, which I kind of expected considering everything else this program does.

FIGURE D

Photo Viewer lets you adjust photos on the handheld. Click picture for a larger image.

Tapping and holding on an item will activate the context menu shown in Figure E, just like a right click on a PC. For images, this opens a whole new world of options, such as sending, cropping, navigation, deletion, and more. The context menu for items in the explorer lets you set default folders, create folders and categories, and delete items.

FIGURE E

Photo Viewer even sports a context menu, like a PC. Click picture for a larger image.

Speaking of categories, in Figure F, these can be a photographer's best friends. I use them to separate all of my photos. I have a General category for images that I find interesting, but haven't taken myself. I have a category strictly for images of my daughter Elizabeth, and one for images that I've taken. You can even have categories within categories. For instance, within the My Photos category, I could have Portraits, Landscapes, and Artistic to separate the pictures I've taken even further.

FIGURE F

Categories are a real boon to the photographer. Click picture for a larger image.

On with the show
You can slideshow your images by category, all at once, or select just the ones you want to showcase. In Figure G, you see that you can control the time frame of the display, the zoom factor, and transition effects.

FIGURE G

Even the slide show can be customized in Photo Viewer. Click picture for a larger image.

The slideshow can wipe from one image to another with a variety of effects, such as motion, blur, dissolve, spiral, etc., or with no effect at all, just flipping from one image to the next. The images will be displayed in alphabetical order, or you can choose a random display. As far as I could determine though, you can't control the specific order of images, which would be nice.

Album generator
Resco's Photo Viewer also comes with a desktop album generator. The generator lets you compile collections of images into albums, as in Figure H. This can be very handy if, like me, you prefer to separate your images.

FIGURE H

Use Photo Viewer's desktop album generator to make your own albums. Click picture for a larger image.

The album generator can also be used to load images that aren't contained in an album. In addition, the album generator presents you with the same image editing options as the handheld viewer, as you can see in Figure I, and gives you the option of installing to your device's main memory, or expansion card.

FIGURE I

The album generator will install to a card or main memory. Click picture for a larger image.

Images within album files on an expansion card are only usable by the photo viewer. If the desktop album generator installs an album or an image to your handheld's main memory, it will first convert them to a PDB file (this is specific to the Palm OS). In this format you won't be able to edit them on the handheld, and they won't be usable by any other application.