I ran across this app last weekend and thought it was an interesting concept: PixVue
Contrary to the name, its doesn't really have anything to do with viewing your pictures. What it does is integrate into windows explorer, and when you bring up the properties dialog on a photo, you have access to lots of metadata available for the image, including EXIF, XMP and IPTC. The cool thing is you can go into an image, set all the common values, like your name, copyright info, contact info, then save those settings as a template. Then you can select a bunch of pictures and apply that template to all of them - instant copyright setting.
It has other interesting features, including the ability to catalog your images into a gallery database - within explorer (I think it shows up at the "My Computer" level of the explorer tree), apply keywords right in explorer, search for images based on any of the metadata, place watermarks on images, generate web pages or pdf files, and a few other goodies. Oh, and I guess it does have a file viewer, but it didn't quite work for me (not that it was broken, just style-wise).
I haven't decided yet whether this will become an "indispenable tool" for me, but so far it seems pretty cool and pretty good at what it does.
Message edited by author 2004-12-09 15:10:59. |
