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1/26/2012 12:30pm
Just finished coding a program that will allow you to view your pictures. Was written in VB.NET using VS2008 and 3.5 .NET Framework.
I created for me, but thought other might like its simplicity. Having kids and a new digital SLR, the fam is taking 1000s of pics. Trying to view them in various other pciture viewing software was weighing on my patience. With too many pics in a folder, the producing of Thumbnails would seem to take forever.
So, I wrote a program that will break down your folders into pages of images with 12 thumbnails per page. You can rotate, move, copy, delete all single, selected or all on a page. I have also given the ability to add/edit the image title and description held in the EXIF data embedded in DSLR images.
You can also save the image in a lower JPEG compression of your choice (between 0 and 100) or save the image as a GIF of BMP file. Also gave the ability to rename the file by double clicking on the image label or by using the right click submenu.
For images that have thumbnails embedded in the EXIF info, the program uses those. IF not, the program will create a thumbnail for the image and display. If you edit the picture by rotating the image, the program will create a new thumbnail for the new edited image and save teh new thumbanil in the EXIF data. The program will also correct the orientation EXIF property of the image for images that are rotated to "TopLeft" so taht other image viewing software that "auto-rotates" images that have a "leftbottom or right bottom" orientation will not "put your image on its side" after being edited to the correct orientation.
You can also look at a larger view of your image by double clicking on the image. You may move through images while viewing them in the larger format. Also gave the ability to launch an image into your default (or one that you select) image editing software.
If you want to look at the program and use it and send me any ideas or comments it is available for free on our company web site under the links page on www.itesoftware.com
I created for me, but thought other might like its simplicity. Having kids and a new digital SLR, the fam is taking 1000s of pics. Trying to view them in various other pciture viewing software was weighing on my patience. With too many pics in a folder, the producing of Thumbnails would seem to take forever.
So, I wrote a program that will break down your folders into pages of images with 12 thumbnails per page. You can rotate, move, copy, delete all single, selected or all on a page. I have also given the ability to add/edit the image title and description held in the EXIF data embedded in DSLR images.
You can also save the image in a lower JPEG compression of your choice (between 0 and 100) or save the image as a GIF of BMP file. Also gave the ability to rename the file by double clicking on the image label or by using the right click submenu.
For images that have thumbnails embedded in the EXIF info, the program uses those. IF not, the program will create a thumbnail for the image and display. If you edit the picture by rotating the image, the program will create a new thumbnail for the new edited image and save teh new thumbanil in the EXIF data. The program will also correct the orientation EXIF property of the image for images that are rotated to "TopLeft" so taht other image viewing software that "auto-rotates" images that have a "leftbottom or right bottom" orientation will not "put your image on its side" after being edited to the correct orientation.
You can also look at a larger view of your image by double clicking on the image. You may move through images while viewing them in the larger format. Also gave the ability to launch an image into your default (or one that you select) image editing software.
If you want to look at the program and use it and send me any ideas or comments it is available for free on our company web site under the links page on www.itesoftware.com
Updated the thumbnail creation and checkin. I have found that some of my images that I have rotated with other software didnt have the embedded thumbnail rotated to match the picture. Therefore, the image was correctly oriented when looking in graphics program, but not when viewing where thmbnls are used. I made a check routine to make sure thumb matched the image and if not to create a new one and store it back in the Exif data and then display the corrected thumbnail.
Creating an email routine to allow emailing of a pic right from the program. Hopefully it will beta good and become part of the package.
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