Bluemont Photo Manager

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Bluemont Photo Manager (BPM) is a free Java program, with searchable help, for building, viewing, and archiving photo albums, and for building album Web sites. BPM's features include:
  • Save, display, and edit many items for each photo, such as place, location, and notes

  • Put a photo in any number of albums without managing files and folders

  • Order album photos by date, location, identifier, and size (number of pixels) desktop

  • Use wildcards (*) to select album photos

  • Group albums into categories

  • Backup and restore albums

  • Build configurable websites for albums, and upload the websites to an FTP web server

  • Edit photos using an external photo editor program, without leaving BPM

  • Add photo tags, e.g., a person's name displayed at a specific position on a photo when it is displayed 

  • View an album slideshow, with pause, resume, changeable timing, and photo tags

  • Extract photos from an album

  • Print photos or an album

  • Analyze for "orphan" photos not included in any album

  • Set preferences for many items such as font size, thumbnail size, and colors

  • Configure the user interface using individual panels that can be selectively displayed

  • Add information to multiple photos at a time
  • Use JPEG, GIF, and PNG images

  • Use Extended Image Format (EXIF) information when adding photos to albums

  • Built-in help.

BPM is copyrighted freeware with no warranty; it may be installed on any number of computers and distributed freely. It requires installation of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.8. The BPM distribution includes a free JRE for 64-bit Microsoft Windows. Since BPM uses Java, it will run on any 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows.

UPDATE: BPM has been updated to version 12-Apr-2026. New features are marked by [new] in the help; they pertain only to Web sites. To do the update, run bpm-installer.jar, or download bpm-update.zip into the BPM installation folder and extract it.

See also the Bluemont Photo Viewer program.

Email: admin@bluemontsw.com
15-Apr-2026