Monday, September 08, 2008
The company I work for, Blue Lava Technologies, has just released it's flagship software and accompanying website, iLovephotos.
The software, which runs on OS X, manages and shares your photo library (sorry windows peeps, you'll have to wait a bit -- but really, maybe this is the extra push you need to come over to efficient, fun, intelligent computing on the Mac platform). If you use iPhoto, it integrates and syncs with it. None of your images are altered or touched in anyway. If you move photos around, iLovePhotos keeps up.
The best part, IMHO, is that you can search your photo library by what's in the photo. You don't have to remember file names, or when you took the image. This requires a bit of legwork when you are setting up iLovePhotos -- you will need to "tag" your photos with information. This is easier than it sounds because iLovePhotos automatically detects faces in photos and it is a fast (and actually pretty fun) process to match faces to tags with information about the person. You can also create non-person tags, for instance if you want to group all your black and white photos together, or all the photos from a particular event, or all the photos that you took with your wide angle lens -- you can. You are free to organize your photos any which way you like with few restrictions. As a photographer with a zillion and twelve photos, this feature makes me very happy :-)
Once you have tagged your photos (or even partially), you can use the Visual Search bar (I call it VS), to rapidly and visually sort the collection and find specific images (there is also a text search). Combine two tags to see all the photos associated with both, or invert the search and find only the photos associated with both tags (extremely useful for honing in on a particular image). You can search this way with any number of tags.
The application also offers sharing. Select a photo(s), hit "Share", optionally select people to share with (using your people tags), and upload to the website. iLovePhotos also creates "smart" slideshows based on your tags, and you can save and share slideshows as videos.
The software, which runs on OS X, manages and shares your photo library (sorry windows peeps, you'll have to wait a bit -- but really, maybe this is the extra push you need to come over to efficient, fun, intelligent computing on the Mac platform). If you use iPhoto, it integrates and syncs with it. None of your images are altered or touched in anyway. If you move photos around, iLovePhotos keeps up.
The best part, IMHO, is that you can search your photo library by what's in the photo. You don't have to remember file names, or when you took the image. This requires a bit of legwork when you are setting up iLovePhotos -- you will need to "tag" your photos with information. This is easier than it sounds because iLovePhotos automatically detects faces in photos and it is a fast (and actually pretty fun) process to match faces to tags with information about the person. You can also create non-person tags, for instance if you want to group all your black and white photos together, or all the photos from a particular event, or all the photos that you took with your wide angle lens -- you can. You are free to organize your photos any which way you like with few restrictions. As a photographer with a zillion and twelve photos, this feature makes me very happy :-)
Once you have tagged your photos (or even partially), you can use the Visual Search bar (I call it VS), to rapidly and visually sort the collection and find specific images (there is also a text search). Combine two tags to see all the photos associated with both, or invert the search and find only the photos associated with both tags (extremely useful for honing in on a particular image). You can search this way with any number of tags.
The application also offers sharing. Select a photo(s), hit "Share", optionally select people to share with (using your people tags), and upload to the website. iLovePhotos also creates "smart" slideshows based on your tags, and you can save and share slideshows as videos.
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9/08/2008 11:43:00 AM
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