Image Organizer - Not So Common, or Differentiating Features

Not So Common, or Differentiating Features

• Pictures can be organized by one or more mechanisms
  • 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)"
• 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 Flickr), or application specific (such as Lightroom, Media Pro 1 and Picasa)
• Retention of Exif, IPTC and XMP metadata already embedded in the image file itself