Something like Avisynth for photos?

[dantheman]

Does anyone know of image display software like avisynth that I can use for still images so that I can keep only my original photo files but display them with the script modifications I wish each time they are loaded (brightness, contrast, cropping, etc.), i.e. using Windows photo viewer? I don't want to have to display them as video files with avisynth.

[Blue_MiSfit]

Adobe Lightroom is a great product like this for Windows. It's not cheap...

Aperture is another great option on the Mac (Lightroom is available there as well)

~MiSfit

[dantheman]

Thanks for the info! When reading about Lightroom, I saw a link to Google Picasa, which also reportedly applies changes to original photos each time they are loaded.

The main reason I'm asking about this is for alignment and display of 3-D photos from left/right images without creating separate files. I like StereoPhotoMaker's auto-alignment feature but I wish there was some way to apply that and any other changes to pairs of left-right images each time an alignment file for the images is double-clicked in Windows Explorer (I've been creating an on-demand family photo and video archive which consists of 2d and 3d material.)