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PhotoDirectory - Cross platform photo organization and viewing
Copyright (C) 2005 Wyatt Olson
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
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along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
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PhotoDirectory 0.5 Beta
Wyatt Olson
<wyatt.olson@gmail.com>
PhotoDirectory is a digital photo organizer / viewer. Great effort has been made to keep the data files in a format understandable by humans. No databases are used to store image metadata - the filename and directory structure store all the info that is required.
PhotoDirectory is writen in Java. You must have JDK 1.5.0 or higher to run it. This can be downloaded from Sun's website.
This release includes the following features:
-Multithreaded IO intensive operations
-Functional menus (Import, Move, etc)
-Quick Searching for pictures within the library
-Details view with zoom
-Edit images in external application (currently just for OS X - uses /Applications/GraphicConverter, but soon will be a user configurable option)
I have tried to keep the interface as simple as possible.
To use PhotoDirectory, you need to first create a library of images. You can select a pre-existing directory if you want, but be aware that it will change the directory structure, and move files around. When you first open that library, PhotoDirectory creates thumbnails for all the images that it can find. Depending on your computer speed, and how many files there are, this can take some time.
Once the thumbnails are created, you can view the library. Click on the zoom box to view a larger image; you can adjust the size by using the scroll bar.
When you change an image's name or date, PhotoDirectory will move it to a new directory within the library, based on the date. (e.g., <Your Library>/2005/April/6). The filename is changed to be the name you select. You can have multiple photos with the same name, as PhotoDirectory will append a unique number on the end if there are duplicates.
Please email me with any suggestions, comments, or questions.
Changes:
0.7 Beta
-Improved details performance, by using JAI instead of JLabel Embedded HTML
-Added Export
-Improved Mac OSX Look and Feel
0.6.5 Beta
-Improved background threading, and enabled progress bar
-Misc. bug fixes
0.6.1 Beta
-Bug fixes from 0.6 (could not create new config file)
-Added background threading for loading libraries on startup - substantial speedup
0.6 Beta
-Added OS X package, with Macintosh menu support
-Added configurable external application
-Misc. improvements
0.5 Beta
First public release. Includes support for:
-Multithreaded IO intensive operations
-Functional menus (Import, Move, etc)
-Quick Searching for pictures within the library
-Viewing details (with zoom)
-Editing images in an external application (currently just for OS X - uses /Applications/GraphicConverter, but soon will be a user configurable option)
