PictCommander

PictCommander is a file manager and viewer built around photographs, with a photo editor inside. Browse a shoot six different ways, compare frames and keep the best, rename a hundred files at once, crop and straighten, blur a stranger's face, take a wire out of the sky — all in one window, without a separate program for every job.

Built-in AI. The LaMa neural network removes people, wires and clutter from a photo, fills in empty corners after rotation and takes glare off glasses — right on your computer, offline, with no subscription. Your originals stay untouched until you decide otherwise.

Two languages: English and Russian

The interface and the illustrated user manual come in English and Russian. The program starts in English; to switch, open Tools → Settings (Ctrl+,) → General → Interface language and restart.

The video tutorial is in Russian, and there is no English one yet. Everything it shows happens on screen, though, and with the interface in English you can follow along without understanding a word of the narration.

Built-in AI: the LaMa neural network

• Removes objects and people from the frame
• Fills in empty corners after rotation
• One-stroke retouch
• A dedicated window for fine-tuning removal
• Takes glare off glasses
• Runs on your computer, offline, no subscription; the model ships inside the program

Browsing and files

• Drive and folder tree, favourite folders and files
• Six view modes, from thumbnails and a table to waterfall and filmstrip
• All files from subfolders in one list
• Search, filters and sorting, including by date taken
• Colour analysis and filtering by colour
• File properties and EXIF
• Full-screen viewer with a heart for favourites
• RAW: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Olympus, Panasonic, DNG
• Photoshop documents (PSD, PSB) with the layer tree
• HEIC, WEBP, TIFF, TGA, ICO, SVG
• Video and animated GIF
• Numbered frame sequences played as animation
• ZIP and RAR archives opened like ordinary folders
• Copy, move and delete, all undoable with Ctrl+Z
• Batch rename: masks, counter, date from EXIF
• Batch convert and resize
• ICO icon maker
• Open photos straight from File Explorer

Editor

• Crop and rotate, straighten the horizon
• Multi-crop: several frames out of one picture
• Exact size and canvas fill
• Image size and resolution
• Hide details: blur and mosaic for faces, number plates, addresses
• Retouch: dust, scratches, blemishes
• Object removal
• Glare on glasses
• Text on the photo
• Adjustments: exposure, white balance, levels, curves, colours, black and white
• Histogram and before / after view
• Every step undoable; edits happen on a working copy

Compare, collages, map

• Compare up to six photos with a shared zoom
• Collages: grids, circles, diagonal cuts, social media formats
• Photos on a map by GPS
• Jump to Google Street View from where a photo was taken
• Your own toolbar buttons for Photoshop or any other program
• Customisable keyboard shortcuts
• Compact mode
• Illustrated user manual (F1)

What it does not do

It is not Photoshop: there are no image layers or masks, and serious retouching belongs in a professional editor. RAW and PSD files are read but never overwritten — your edits are saved as a JPEG or PNG copy. The neural network rebuilds sky, grass, foliage and walls convincingly, but it will invent faces and lettering of its own. The map and Street View need an internet connection; nothing else does.

Windows Defender and antivirus software

The program is not yet registered with Microsoft, so Windows Defender may report PictCommander.exe as malware (for example Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml) or remove it while unzipping. This is a false positive, common for programs written in Python. PictCommander installs no services, does not add itself to startup and sends no data anywhere.

If it happens, restore the file from Windows Security → Protection history and add the program's folder to the exclusions. If a blue "Windows protected your PC" window appears, click "More info" → "Run anyway". Antivirus.txt inside the archive has the details. A review request to Microsoft is on its way.

Getting started

Unzip the archive somewhere inside your user profile — for example %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PictCommander — and run PictCommander.exe. No installation and no administrator rights are needed. Avoid the root of drive C: and Program Files: the program may lack the rights to read from there and hang with an empty drive list.

At a glance

• System: Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit)
• Interface: English and Russian
• User manual: English and Russian, illustrated (F1)
• Video tutorial: in Russian
• Installation: none, unzip and run
• Internet: only for the map
• Archive size: 560 MB
• Price: free
• Author: e.melnikov