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`Image organizer
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`An image organizer or image management application is application software focused on organizing
`digital images.[1][2] Image organizers represent one kind of desktop organizer software applications.
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`Contents
`1 Common image organizers features
`2 Not so common, or differentiating features
`3 Two categories of image organizers
`4 Future of image organization
`5 Notable image organizers
`6 See also
`7 References
`8 Additional reading
`9 External links
`
`Common image organizers features
`Multiple thumbnail previews are viewable on a single screen and printable on a single page. (Contact
`Sheet)
`Images can be organized into albums
`Albums can be organized into collections
`Adding tags (also known as keywords, categories, labels or flags). Tags can be stored externally, or in
`industry-standard IPTC or XMP headers inside each image file.[3]
`Resizing, exporting, e-mailing and printing.
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`Not so common, or differentiating features
`Pictures can be organized by one or more mechanism
`Images can be organized into folders, which may correspond to file-system folders.
`Images may be organized into albums, which may be distinct from folders or file-system folders.
`Albums may be organized into collections, which may not be the same as a folder hierarchy.
`Grouping or sorting by date, location, and special photographic metadata such as exposure or f-
`stops if that information is available. See Exif for example.
`Images can appear in more than one album
`Albums can appear in more than one collection
`Grouped or stacking of images within an album, by date, time, and linking copies to originals.
`Adding and editing titles and captions
`Simple or sophisticated search engines to find photos
`Searching by keywords, caption text, metadata, dates, location or title
`Searching with logical operators and fields, such as "(Title contains birthday) and (keywords
`contain cake) not (date before 2007)"
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`Separate backing up and exporting of metadata associated with photos.
`Retouching of images (either destructively or non-destructively)
`Editing images in third-party graphical software and then re-incorporating them into the album
`automatically
`Stitching to knit together panoramic or tiled photos
`Grouping of images to form a slideshow view
`Exporting of slideshows as HTML or flash presentations for web deployment
`Synchronizing of albums with web-based counterparts, either third-party (such as Lightroom and
`Flickr), or application specific (such as Picasa and Picasa Web)
`Retention of Exif, IPTC and XMP metadata already embedded in the image file itself
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`Two categories of image organizers
`Automatic image organizers. These are software packages that read data present in digital pictures
`and use this data to automatically create an organization structure. Each digital picture contains
`information about the date when the picture was taken. It is this piece of information that serves as the
`basis for automatic picture organization. The user usually has little or no control over the automatically
`created organization structure. Some tools create this structure on the hard drive (physical structure),
`while other tools create a virtual structure (it exists only within the tool).
`Manual image organizers. This kind of software provides a direct view of the folders present on a
`user's hard disk. Sometimes referred to as image viewers, they only allow the user to see the pictures
`but do not provide any automatic organization features. They give maximum flexibility to a user and
`show exactly what the user has created on his hard drive. While they provide maximum flexibility,
`manual organizers rely on the user to have his/her own method to organize their pictures. Currently
`there are two main methods for organizing pictures manually: tag and folder based methods. While not
`mutually exclusive, these methods are different in their methodology, outcome and purpose.
`Presently, many commercial image organizers offer both automatic and manual image organization
`features. A comparison of image viewers reveals that many free software packages are available that
`offer most of the organization features available in commercial software.
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`Future of image organization
`There are several imminent advances anticipated in the image organization domain which may soon allow
`widespread automatic assignment of keywords or image clustering based on image content [4]:
`colour, shape and texture recognition [5] (For example, Picasa experimentally allows searching for
`photos with primary colour names)
`subject recognition [6]
`fully- or semi-automated facial, torso or body recognition [7][8] (For example, FXPAL in Palo Alto
`experimentally extracts faces from images and measures the distance between each face and a
`template.)
`geo-temporal sorting and event clustering [9]. Many software will sort by time or place; experimental
`software has been used to predict special events such as birthdays based on geo-temporal clustering.
`In general, these methods either:
`automatically assign keywords based on content, or
`measure the distance between an unclassified image and some template image which is associated
`with a keyword, and then propose that the operator apply the same keyword(s) to the unclassified
`images
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`Notable image organizers
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`Name
`
`OS
`
`License Metadata Geotagging
`
`Facial
`Recognition
`
`Synchronizes
`with Online
`Library
`
`Notability
`
`ACDSee
`
`Windows Commercial
`
`Yes IPTC
`Exif XMP
`
`Yes
`
`No
`
`Windows
`and Mac
`OS X
`
`Yes
`
`Windows
`
`commercial Yes IPTC
`
`No
`
`No
`
`No
`
`Yes ≤ 25GB to
`ACDSee
`online, flickr™,
`SmugMug , and
`Zenfolio
`
`Supports: >100 file
`formats, Unicode, batch
`processing, viewing
`contents of archives
`formats, non-destructive
`editing, DB export, R/W to
`CD, VCD, DVD. Contains:
`SMTP email client, FTP
`transport, duplicate file
`finder.
`
`No
`
`This product has been
`discontinued.
`
`Adobe
`Photoshop
`Album
`
`CodedColor
`PhotoStudio
`Pro
`
`digiKam
`
`Extensis
`Portfolio
`
`KDE
`(Linux,
`Mac OS
`X,
`Windows)
`
`Windows
`and Mac
`OS X
`
`FastStone
`Image Viewer
`
`Windows
`
`F-Spot
`
`GNOME
`
`gThumb
`
`GNOME
`
`Yes IPTC
`Exif XMP
`
`Yes
`
`Yes
`
`Image management
`application database, deals
`with collections of
`100,000's of photos
`
`Commercial Digital Asset
`Management solution.
`
`No
`
`Yes
`
`Yes
`
`Free, GNU
`General
`Public
`License
`
`commercial
`
`Proprietary,
`Free for
`non-
`commercial
`use only
`
`Free, GNU
`General
`Public
`License
`
`Free, GNU
`General
`Public
`License
`
`IDimager
`
`Windows
`
`commercial
`
`Yes IPTC
`Exif XMP
`
`Yes
`
`No
`
`IMatch
`
`Windows
`
`commercial
`
`Yes
`
`Yes Facebook ,
`Flickr,
`PicasaWeb ,
`SmugMug ,
`Zenfolio
`
`Personal and professional
`DAM tool. Organize and
`describe your images, easy
`search, non-destructive
`editing, publish, facial
`tagging, speech
`recognition,...
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`iPhoto
`
`Mac OS
`X
`
`commercial
`
`Yes
`
`Yes
`
`Yes
`
`Yes
`
`iTag
`
`Windows Commercial
`
`JBrout
`
`Cross
`platform
`
`KPhotoAlbum
`
`KDE
`
`Free, GNU
`General
`Public
`License
`
`Free, GNU
`General
`Public
`License v2
`
`Lightroom
`(Adobe
`Photoshop)
`
`Windows Commercial
`
`PicaJet
`
`Windows
`
`commercial
`
`Yes
`IPTC,
`XMP
`
`Yes
`
`Yes IPTC
`
`Yes IPTC
`Exif XMP
`
`Yes Exif,
`IPTC
`XMP
`
`No
`
`Yes
`PicasaWeb
`and Flickr with
`plugins
`
`professional image
`management application
`database, asychronously
`catalog DVD collections of
`10,000's of photos
`
`Picasa /
`PicasaWeb
`
`Windows ,
`OSX and
`Linux
`
`Freeware
`
`Yes IPTC
`
`Yes
`
`Yes
`
`ResourceSpace
`
`Cross
`platform
`
`Free, BSD
`license
`
`Yes IPTC
`XMP Exif
`
`Shutterfly
`Studio
`
`Windows
`
`Freeware
`
`Yes
`
`ThumbsPlus
`
`Windows Commercial
`
`Yes with
`PicasaWeb
`only
`
`1GB free online storage,
`integrated with Google
`online tool suite
`
`Open source Digital Asset
`Management solution.
`
`ViewMinder
`
`Windows Live
`Photo Gallery
`
`XnView
`
`Zoner Photo
`Studio
`
`Windows
`XP and
`2000
`
`Windows
`Vista and
`XP
`
`Windows
`and Unix-
`like
`
`Freeware
`
`Yes IPTC
`Exif XMP
`
`Limited
`freeware
`
`Yes IPTC
`Exif
`
`Windows
`
`commercial
`
`Yes Exif
`IPTC
`XMP
`
`Yes
`
`No
`
`Using HTML
`templates
`
`Name
`
`OS
`
`License
`
`Tagging Geotagging
`
`Facial
`Recognition
`
`Synchronizes
`with Online
`Library
`
`Notability
`
`See also
`
`[edit]
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`Image viewers
`Digital asset management
`Comparison of image viewers
`Desktop organizer
`personal wiki
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` Lightroom and the
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`References
`1. ^ Cynthia Baron and Daniel Peck, The Little Digital Camera Book, July 1, 2002 pp:93
`2. ^ Julie Adair King, Shoot Like a Pro! Digital Photography July 28, 2003 pp:21-23
`3. ^ "Who’s got the tag? Database truth versus file truth"
` by Jon Udell 2007
`4. ^ http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2007/03/lightroom_and_the_future_of_or.html
`future of organizing photos
`5. ^ http://www.ctr.columbia.edu/~jrsmith/html/pubs/PAMI/pami_final_1.html
`and Texture (1995)
`6. ^ http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1232330.1232374&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE
`organization for efficient image retrieval in image databases (2006)
`7. ^ http://hcil.cs.umd.edu/trs/2004-15/2004-15.pdf
` Semi-Automatic Image Annotation Using Event and Torso
`Identification
`8. ^ http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw62/wilcox.html
` Managing Digital Photo Collections
`9. ^ http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=957093
` Temporal event clustering for digital photo collections
`Additional reading
`Multimedia Information Retrieval and Management: Technological Fundamentals and Applications by
`David Feng, W.C. Siu, Hong J. Zhang
`Multimedia Networking: Technology, Management, and Applications by Syed Mahbubur Rahman
`Multimedia and Image Management by Susan Lake, Karen Bean
`
` Automated Image Retrieval Using Color
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` Content-based object
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`External links
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`Categories: Graphics software | Image organizers
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