PictureRelate let you browse your pictures a different way, allows you to browse and view a large number of images, search for similar or duplicate images. PictureRelate compares pictures by similarity. Of course computers can't understand what's in a picture. Pattern recognition and image analysis has tried for many decades and has failed, so far. But there are some basic image properties that can be analyzed by a computer. PictureRelate uses a set of such features to classify images. These features were designed to mimic the human eye, i.e. they use what neurologists like to call "pop-out" features.

The human brain uses pop-out features to find interesting visual elements fast. So a major benefit of using this technique is: it is fast! Using a large number of such features and combining them in a weighted way often gives surprisingly good results. Therefore I decided to publish my experimental program as a technology demonstrator. Try it!
1. choose a picture close to what you are looking for.
2. adjust feature weights (called criterias in the GUI) so that as many similar pictures as possible appear as close as possible to the selected image. Since version 2.0 auto-adjust functionality is available too.
3. select several of these similar pictures to see if they are a better prototype picture
4. repeat the above steps. Use the history functionality to recover from unsuccessful selections.

As an additional benefit you can search for duplicate pictures, which have a different image format, or different size, or even for duplicates which have different text stamped into the image.
Another feature is to create a mosaic image, which is composed from thumbnail pictures and looks like another picture when watched from far away.

PictureRelate Features:
1. Browse pictures from different directories and drives in a single list.
2. View, Rename, Delete, Copy&Paste, Drag&Drop, switch to Explorer...
3. Can handle large lists with 50.000 pictures and more!!!
4. Image formats: JPG, BMP, PNG, TIFF, PPM, PGM, PBM, RAS
5. Reads any other format via import filter command (IfranView, XnView, ...)
6. Search for images similar to the selected picture. Fast!!!
7. Adjust criterias for similarity interactively. See effects immediately.
8. Search for duplicate pictures.
9. Create a list of more or less similar pictures.
10. Create a mosaic picture composed from many other pictures.

Please Note: PictureRelate is free for personal use only.

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, you can free download and get a free trial.