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 8/28/2007 5:05:23 PM
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Complex Searches?

Hello,

hey, looks like this is going to become a real great program! At the moment I organize my photos with PicaJet, but they got stuck since two (!) years with the new version Looks like this project is updated more frequently?

Well, my feature suggestion would is: It would be absolutly super nice if there was a way to do complex searches. That means: Search pictures that are connected to categories, but exclude certain kind of pictures or only show pictures that are as well in category A as in category B, for example. So you could use AND, OR and NOT as search parameters.

Example: Say you have the categories "Mom", "Dad", "Myself":

-- search "Mom" AND "Dad" AND "Myself" --> only pictures of you and your parents
-- search "Mom" AND "Dad" NOT "Myself" --> Pictures of your parents, but no pictures of your parents and you
-- search "Myself" OR "Mom" AND "Dad" --> Pictures showing either you or your Mom, but in any case of your Dad
...and so on.

Also it would be useful to have the parameter OTHER_CATEGORIES:

-- search "Mom" NOT OTHER_CATEGORIES --> Pictures that only show your Mom (e.g. those images of your Mom that have no connection to other categories). This way you could filter out all images within a cateory that are also connected to other categories.

What do you think of this?

Best regards, Ruceb

 

 

 

 

 8/28/2007 11:08:59 PM
User is offlineAsaf
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Re: Complex Searches?

Hi Ruceb,

Thanx for you detailed suggestion, I will try to enhance the searching fatures and give something like an advanced search form that will, enable a more complex search options. I hope that in a couple of weeks I can get it in.

This project does update more frequently as I try to focus on the most needed changes.

Thank you and Best regards,

    Asaf.

 8/29/2007 3:03:04 AM
User is offlineruceb
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Re: Complex Searches?
Hey Asaf,

thanks for your quick response!

This sounds indeed very promising. I'm looking forward to the next versions. I'll stop by from time to time to see what's going on with My_Photo_Index...

Huh, just comes to my mind: I have forgotten to make yet another suggestion: How about supporting more image formats? Specifically, besides JPEGs, I'd like to see PNGs (I haven't tested this yet, maybe it works already), and -- more important -- TIFFs with at least 16bit color depth and, not to forget, RAW files. For RAW files, you could use for example DCRaw which is free and can be implemented into applications. It reads an awful lot of different RAW formats / cameras. And -- for me personally not too important, but maybe some users would appreciate -- you could decide to also make movie formats (AVI, MOV, MPEG) viewable, since some (non DSLR-)cameras can produce them.

For me as a photographer, 16bit-TIFF and RAW-files (in my case: Olympus .ORF) are essentiel to be viewable and organizable, since about two thirds of my images consist of these.

Keep up your good work! Best regards,
Ruceb

PS. The notification option of this forum doesn't seem to work, so one has to coem back and see directy if there's been an answer.
 8/29/2007 5:51:53 AM
User is offlineAsaf
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Re: Complex Searches?

Hi Ruceb,

The supported formats are currently:  Bmp, Gif, Jpg, Png, Tiff And Avi. (the Jpg's are the more tested ones since that's my own favorite).

Indeed DCRaw is an impressive project and I will probably use it for RAW format support

Thanx again,

Asaf.

 

 9/18/2007 11:17:04 PM
User is offlineAsaf
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Re: Complex Searches?

Hi,

 I've uploaded the new version 1.00.13 (beta for now)

It includes both the Complex search and the RAW files support as well as some other features.

Asaf.

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