Photo Organizer

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Introduction   (#intro)

The best work that I'd done in organizing photos was when a friend ran a batch job on Adobe PhotoShop to generate several sizes of photos and I did my own work in HTML.  I don't have PhotoShop but I do have Photo Organizer which came with a CD-Writer, and another with slides to CD at time of processing, and still another with scanner software.

The generated HTML is not very good, but with the use of templates you can modify things to make them work more or less in a better fashion.

Light Table   (#sorter)

Put all pictures into the Light Table.  When you create an Album any information changed is changed is automatically changed in the Light Table, and other Albums automatically.

Templates   (#templates)

c:\program files\photo organizer\templates\default

The templates end with .html some things to keep in mind.

Moving Data Base to another computer or Hard Drive   (#db)

Haven't looked into this but it looks like it could be a problem.

Some considerations in general for backing up your computer files are on my backup page.

File structure for users   (#albums)

c:\program files\photo organizer\templates\default 

c:\albums\
   GroupOne\
	    Originals
			  copy from permanent files to here
			highres
			  generate files here
To generate for the above
    c:\albums\GroupOne
		  base:  highres      (or medres, or low res}
			Title:  Group One Pictures
      Comment:  Use PF11 for full screen viewing 
A CD can be burned from the subdirectories directly of of the the Albums directory.

Needed generate additional files   (#generate)

i.e. XCOPY to copy to Originals (subset) file for distribution on a CD.

There does not appear to be the ability to just make up new templates to generate these cards.  Nor an easy way to change the template in use -- but will look into it.


Example of: C:\Program Files\Photo Organizer\Templates\Default\gallery.htm

 {Title} 

{Comments} 


{PictureTitle}
{PictureComment} 
 
 Photographed by: {PictureAuthor}
 Photograph taken on: {PictureDate}


Please send e-mail to {SiteAuthorName} to provide feedback about this page. 


Gallery page
[Summary] [Title Page]

This page last updated on {CreationDate}.

Some file extensions   (#ext)

Stripping off EXIF and IPTC   (#strip)

Retaining EXIF and IPTC   (#exif)

Not much point to Kodak CD formats anyway.  The EXIF data is important to retain.

When using IrfanView within options: keep original EXIF/IPTC/JPG.comment, and withing advanced Save files with oriinjgal date & time.

When using XCOPY make sure you include /s /d /h (subdirectories, date, hidden).

Several of the following have been installed on my computer, and if installed in the same diretory on your c: drive as mine have been, you can simply click on those shown as “.exe” or as marked with /\ using Internet Explorer to invoke the program; or if you are using Firefox you can invoke using the Launchy extension, and then choose Explorer if you have set up the launchy.xml as I have shown on my Firefox customizations page.

This page was introduced on February 22, 2002. 

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