Photovault 0.3.1 review
DownloadWith it you can easily keep even a large photo archive in good order and find the images you need. Here are some key features of "Ph
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With it you can easily keep even a large photo archive in good order and find the images you need.
Here are some key features of "Photovault":
Organizing and Searching
Add structured metadata to images
Confidence ranges - you can state that a photo has been taken in "January 1994" instead of giving an exact time
Easy to change metadata of multiple photos at once
Organize photos into hierarchical folders
Add same photo to as many folders as you want with virtually no additional disk space needed
Search based on any metadata field (coming)
Restrict search to photos that are in a certain folder sub-hierarchy
Import and Export
Import all image file types supported by Java Advanced Imaging
Import multiple images at once
Automatically extract metadata from image file when importing them to database (from EXIF and image file information)
Export photos from database
Viewing and Processing Images
Rotate photos
Crop photos (coming)
Adjust photo colors (coming)
View photos at arbitrary zoom level
Automatic thumbnail creation
Original image file is preserved in all cases - all processing is done into a copy or while displaying the image
Technical requirements
Photovault is written in 100% pure Java and should run in all environments supported by Sun Java 5.
Runs in Windows, Linux and MacOS X
Requires Java runtime environment 1.5 and Java Advanced Imaging
Data storage in either Apache Derby (included in release) or MySQL database (not included)
Requirements:
Java 1.4.2 or later
What's New in This Release:
This is a bugfix release, with corrections and improvements in indexing photo directories and importing images.
It also contains some usability improvements in photo browsing and image categorization.
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