F-Album is intended for cataloging digital photos and other photos stored on your hard disk, as well as on other information-carrying devices (CD, DVD, etc). In other words, it does not really matter where you keep your photos ? F-Album will allow you to always have a full catalog of your photos close at hand. The key feature of F-Album is its ability to store in its database, along with thumbnails, samples of photos as well. A sample (or a miniature) is a small copy of its original image. A user can set size and quality of stored samples, which affects the speed of adding photos and the database size. Using stored samples, F-Album permit to easily make web-galleries without having to access original images. You can also export a sample into a file at any moment and use it as you wish. You can sort photos by the storage location, date, category and persons. Sorting by category is used most frequently. You can build the hierarchic categorization that will be convenient just for you, where one and the same photo may be included into any number of categories. Sorting by person is a special category case; however, it is made a separate bookmark for more convenience. Another distinguished feature of F-Album is its Temporary list. You can «drag » photos into this list while working with any section ? it can be sorting by storage location, by date, by categories or by persons. After you have finished making your selection, you can save a final list of photos as a category or a person, or process your selection some other way (for example, make a web-gallery).