Fotowerk 1.1: press release, pictures, facts.

DCS Analytics, a software company from Brandenburg, Germany, releases Fotowerk 1.1, a Windows program that brings large private photo collections into an order you can find your way around. Fotowerk finds duplicate photos and photos that did not turn out, and sorts pictures by categories of your own choosing and by year into normal Windows folders. All data stays on the computer. There is no account, no cloud and no subscription. Version 1.1 adds an English interface and manual. The full version costs €14.99 once, a trial version is free.

Who it is for

Fotowerk is made for private users with 20,000 to 100,000 photos from twenty years of digital photography: camera imports, phone backups, email attachments, folders copied several times over. These users do not want to learn a photo management suite and do not want to upload their pictures to someone else's data centre. They want to work through their collection once and afterwards find every picture in a folder that their children can still open.

Three buttons

• Find duplicates: identical and almost identical pictures (including re-compressed copies from messengers) appear as a group side by side. The user decides with a tick.
• Find photos that did not turn out: blurry and too dark pictures and screenshots are suggested, with a reason.
• Sort: one photo in full screen, up to twelve categories of your own (Family, Holidays, Club, Garden), one click or a digit from 1 to 9. Many photos at once with a right-click. Year folders appear automatically.

What happens to the files

Fotowerk moves files inside the chosen photo folder. It does not copy and does not delete. Pictures that are set aside go to a review folder, and a ZIP backup is created first. Every sorting run is logged, identical file names are kept. The result is an ordinary folder structure such as Family/2023/ that stays readable without Fotowerk.

Technical details

System	Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit
Formats	JPEG, HEIC, PNG, TIFF, WebP, BMP, GIF
Tested up to	100,000 photos
Installation	Signed installer, about 230 MB
Internet	Once for activation, not afterwards
Price	€14.99 once, one key for three devices, all 1.x updates
Trial version	Scanning and checking unlimited, moving up to 500 photos
Languages	English, German (follows the Windows display language)

Quote

"Fotowerk is like a butler for the photo collection. He carries in all the work: finds the duplicate pictures, puts the blurry ones aside, holds up every photo. The person only makes the decision where it belongs. Invest one afternoon like that, and in the years after you find every picture in seconds instead of searching all over again every time."
Arne Bailliere, developer of Fotowerk

About DCS Analytics

DCS Analytics & Digital Consultancy Services is a brand of Universe Connect KG, based in Rangsdorf near Berlin, Germany. The company develops software products for laboratories, chess and private users as well as custom solutions. Fotowerk is the company's first product around photos.

Press contact

Arne Bailliere
DCS Analytics & Digital Consultancy Services
Sachsenkorso 23, 15834 Rangsdorf, Germany
Phone +49 175 979 73 08
info@digitalconsultancysolutions.com