PicaJet burst on to the digital asset management market in 2001 and quickly became apopular tool with professional photographers and digital camera owners alike. As thenumber of digital photographs taken increases exponentially, photographer'srequirements for storing and keeping track of the photos grows dramatically. Todayit is hard to find photo album software which covers most of the customers needs andmaintains an easy to learn and fast interface. PicaJet is that program.
Here is a list of the top 10 reasons why photographers and digital camera ownerschoose PicaJet Photo Manager:
1. Support for Camera RAW formats, including Adobe DNGImages taken in a RAW format offer higher picture quality and richer post-processingcapabilities compared to images taken in JPEG or TIFF formats. Because of this, theRAW format is the de-facto image format for professional photographers. PicaJetsupports the RAW format of almost all camera manufacturers as well as Adobe DNG.
2. Support for EXIF, IPTC, XMP standardsPicaJet Photo Manager stores image description information in two separatelocations. This information includes: photographers copyright, image caption,keywords and rating. Image data is stored both in a special database and in theimage files themselves. The database storage facilitates lightning fast searchesthrough huge image collections. Storage of the same data within the image filesensures data security. It can be easily recovered if the database is damaged. Inaddition, any other programs that support EXIF, IPTC, XMP data formats can accessthe image information. An advantage of this dual storage method is that the embeddedinformation will stay with the images if they are copied or moved. Another greatPicaJet feature is the ability to save information to the XMP section of DNG files.
3. An unlimited hierarchical category structurePicaJet Photo Manager uses a multilevel, unlimited, hierarchical category structurewithout any nesting limitations. This has many benefits over a standard linearkeyword structure:- Clarity.- Small size.- Hierarchical structure.- The ability to easily locate categories and images.For maximum search speed as well as data security, image categories are stored inthe database as well as the images. During image import, categories can beautomatically created using IPTC keywords or they can be based on an existing folderhierarchy. This means that a PicaJet category structure can be kept fullysynchronized with image file keywords. Unlike other digital photo cataloguing toolswhich simply store keyword lists, PicaJet maintains the image folders as a keywordtree structure.
4. Automatically responds to external file changesPicaJet can automatically synchronize and update the photo album when files arealtered, moved or copied. The changes are detected automatically by the program. Forexample: if you add keywords to an image using the third-party IPTC editor, thePicaJet category tree will instantly be updated to follow the change.
5. Manage files through several albumsYou may wish to include images in more than album. For example: you may wish tosplit your family images between a photo-modeling album and a landscape album.PicaJet can easily handle this requirement and it has a number of features for themanagement of multiple albums. PicaJet allows you to view album statistics and topassword protect albums. Password protection of single images is also available.
6. Organizing offline archive Photo collections will always grow and you will eventually need to archive images toDVD. PicaJet can easily work with these archived images by retaining smallthumbnails on your hard drive. You can view, perform various searches and sort thesethumbnails. To open the original image file, simply double click on a thumbnail.PicaJet will invite you to insert an appropriately labeled disc to the DVD-ROM driveand then display it.
7. Search and sort through EXIF fieldsIf, for example, you are looking for photographs taken using your Canon 350D or yourNikon D2X then, with PicaJet, you can easily find them. Here is another example: youare looking for shots taken between 15 and 17 September 2001 in the evening and atISO 400. PicaJet will quickly find them for you.
8. Safe editing of imagesAn original image file from the camera is rather like a film negative. If youaccidentally damage it and no backup copy is available you will never be able torestore it. PicaJet can render images with photo effects but the original files arenever altered. Instead, you see ultra-fast, PicaJet OpenGL graphic engine on-the-fly effects applied to a copy of the image. In addition to keeping theoriginals safe, apparently impossible speeds are achieved during batch imageediting. PicaJet can batch process 200 images per second! Other extended editingfunctions are available which always alter a copy of the image, never the imageitself. This means you can revert to the original image at any time.
9. Automatically upload images to Flickr.com or Fotki.comMost photographers like to share their shots with the world. The largest onlinephoto services Fotki.com and Flickr.com now work with PicaJet. It takes just a fewkey strokes to assign your copyrights, keywords and description to a photo and thenupload it using Fotki and Flickr Uploaders. Your friends will then be notified byemail about your new photographs of your latest trip to Japan.
10. Slideshow with Hollywood effectsPicaJetÂ's specially designed transition effects open up a whole new world of photoviewing pleasure. The slideshow starts, the music is on. You and your family sitback and relax to watch the latest PicaJet photo show.
Of course this is not a complete list of all of the PicaJet features. As you beginto work with the photo organizer you will appreciate the simplicity of operationbacked by awesome functionality. The most frequently used functions have one-clickaccess while others are invoked via menu and hot key. For instance, the TAB keyshows or hides extended information panels and so increases the useful workspace.Thumbnail size and customized display fields can be changed directly from theworkspace.
At the current time, this image database software is one of the leaders in thedigital photo management market. While the features listed cover professionalphotographer's needs, amateur photographers also will like PicaJet because of itÂ'seasy-to-understand interface and affordable price  US $59.95.
PicaJet is an independent software development company that specializes exclusivelyin digital photo software. If you have any questions, would like to requesteditorÂ's copy, wish to inquire about special prices for volume buyers/softwareresellers, or have a business proposal then please contact Murat Korkmazov.
System Requirements: Operating system: Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP or Vista RAM: 64 Mb
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