

The Viewer is for quick full-size picture browsing. The Manager has several different views-besides the standard "Browser," these are "Preview," "Map," and "Compare." Their purposes match their names. However, it does have a Catalog database that serves as a "card catalog" for metadata. The program works with image files on disk directly-they are not imported in and later exported out. Metadata can also be edited here, or used for filtering. This metadata includes titles, descriptions, author info, keywords, audio notes, digital signatures, GPS data, ratings, colored labels, etc. It can display " metadata," that is, information about pictures, stored in the Exif, IPTC, and/or XMP standard. The program's Manager Module is for organizing photos. It offers various automatic actions during download, such as assigning keywords and other metadata. The program's Import Module is used for copying or moving photos from a camera, a card, or other external media onto a computer. The interface is divided into what the company calls "modules," each addressing a certain major task in that workflow, such as viewing, editing, managing, or "importing" (downloading) photos.

The Photo Studio software is all-in-one, that has features for all of a photo's workflow, rather than e.g. The new version of Zoner Photo Studio X is subscription based and brings fine-tuned retouching tools and support for layer based editing. Develop enables non-destructive edits to raw files and other supported files. The five modules were distilled into three: Manager, Develop, and Editor. Version 18 brought a major interface change. Version 17 revamped the raw module and made the Catalog more central to the Manager. Version 16 completed the Editor's switch to using the Side Panel.

Version 14 brought support for batch upload to the developer's Zonerama web gallery service and for GPU acceleration via CUDA and OpenCL. Version 13 brought support for dual monitors and 64-bit versions of Windows. This was also the first version with a default charcoal gray interface, intended to ease photo viewing. Version 12 of Zoner Photo Studio introduced the program's division into "modules": a Manager, Viewer, Editor, and raw module, to increase the ease of working with photo management/editing/etc. A new version has been published annually throughout the software's history. In 2004, Zoner Media Explorer was renamed Zoner Photo Studio because the product focus switched to strictly digital photography. 7.2.3 Spring 2018: Face recognition, 4 new groups of preset filters, monthly payment for subscription.7.2.2 Autumn 2017: Smoothing brush, structure cloning and HEIF image format support.

