If you own a digital picture frame (see our Ratings, available to subscribers), you know that getting images to look their best on the device can be a hassle. Problems include photos that are so big that they stop the frame's slide show and that display in the wrong orientation.

ACDSee has just announced a new (and, at $40, somewhat pricey) software program, Picture Frame Manager, that seems to address many such problems, based on the demo version I saw at this year's PMA, the trade show for the digital-imaging industry.

Here's how the program works: once you connect your frame (or USB storage device) to your computer via a USB connection, you can create a profile for that particular frame in the software that will optimize the images the same way, each time you want to add new photos. You do this by selecting the size of the picture frame from a drop-down menu, or by typing in a custom size.

Next, you'll select one or a group of images you want to optimize and add it to your picture frame. The images appear as thumbnails, which you can drag and drop into the frame. The images are optimized as they are copied. ACDSee says the software optimizes photos for any size frame, even for screen sizes as small as a cellphone.

The demo I saw at the PMA show certainly looked as if it did the job it set out to do: Images on the picture frame scrolled without interruption. But be aware that Picture Frame Manager does not optimize video clips, only still images.

ACDSee says the software can set up multiple profiles for different frames that may have different screen or resolution sizes. It works on both PCs and Macs, and can convert TIFF, GIF, PNG and RAW files to JPEG. But what I liked most about the demo version I saw was that it's software that doesn't suffer from feature bloat. It's simple, and appears intuitive to use.

—Terry Sullivan