Twins Visions: Advanced image manager and editor for Windows

by Brad Linder Apr 12th 2008

Twins Visions is a new desktop image manager and editor that's sort of like Picasa if Picasa had image editing capabilities, prettier visualizations, and the ability to occasionally crash your computer. Let's start with that last part first. Twins Visions is beta software, and while it works fine most of the time, we did see our first BSOD in months while testing it out.

But if you're okay with installing buggy beta software on your PC, Twins Visions is worth checking out. The program lets you do all the usual things like sort and display your images or play slideshows. But it also features a nifty 3D picture viewer that lets you sift through images in multiple folders and even drag and drop images from one folder to another.

Twins Visions also features basic image editing tools like resizing, cropping, or adding effects like grayscale, pixelizing, or embossing images. You can also enable Flickr integration for viewing and editing your images saved on Flickr.

The public beta expires on October 1st. We're going to go out on a limb and guess that at that point you'll either be able to pay for a commercial version of the application or download a new beta. But for the next few months at least, you can try out Twins Visions for free.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

aanidaani said 7:25PM on 4-12-2008

Seems a bit silly to me. The purpose of Picasa is to catalog and organize your photos, and to do a little bit of touchup work. If you need more advanced editing capabilities, use Photoshop, the Gimp, or Piknik.

mxs said 11:41PM on 4-13-2008

This program broke many of my star menu shortcuts.

mxs said 7:54AM on 4-15-2008

I am running Vista Home Premium, SP1. I tried The software reviewed above and came back here to warn other Vista SP1 users. The shell modifications made by the software caused many of my start menu shortcuts to stop working. While the "all programs" shortcuts still worked, several of the shortcuts "pinned" to the start menu did not work. Uninstall was clean and restored start menu shortcut functionality. I hope this helps. I will visit the developer's site now to notify them.

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