Review: Enoetic Photology imaging software

A quick way to search your digital photo library

If you’ve got a large but disorganised digital photo library on you PC, Photology aims to help you quickly hunt down specific photos using a variety of search criteria.

Once Photology has scanned your photos (you can specify which folders it should look in) you can use up to seven different criteria to search for photos: Time of day, Date, Features, Location, Content, Text and Colour.

The Content option is one of the most interesting as it lets you search for photos containing people, ones taken at the beach, photos of flowers, sunsets and more.

You can also search using a combination of different criteria, for example it’s possible to hunt for photos of people with flowers or, alternatively, ones of plants taken indoors.

Other features include simple adjustments, such as red-eye removal, and the ability to quickly convert images and upload them to the web.

We tested Photology on a hard drive packed with photos and, as expected, the results were by no means perfect. For example, although a search for photos with water did indeed return some river and beach scenes, it also showed us a variety of photos that contained a blue snooker table, some photos of the sky and even some street shots - none of which had a drop of water in sight. It was a similar story when we used other search criteria.

Photology certainly isn’t a breakthrough in image filtering technology, but at this price you wouldn’t expect it to be. It offers a different way of searching through your photos and, if you can accept irrelevant photos regularly appearing in your searches, it does return plenty of matching results. However, unless you’ve got heaps of unsorted photos you may prefer the old-fashioned method of flicking through your snaps manually.

You can download a free trial of Photology.