Because photographers can be geeks too
Features
- Simple file browser to flip through images
- Powerful searching via Mac OS X spotlight
- Displays basic EXIF information
- Displays embedded thumbnail (or generates one on the fly)
- Allows you to modify captions and keywords only
- Add photos to a pile and then batch resize and copy, ready for emailing
- Pseudo commandline interface: access all functions with short keystrokes
Chhobi = Python + Tkinter + exiftool + mdfind + PIL
Short screen cast
Rationale
I think iPhoto is bloated and any photo organizer concept I could come up with seemed to unnecessarily duplicate many standard OS functions, such as file organization and metadata searching. Several powerful commandline tools like exiftool, mdfind and convert already exist to manipulate images and image metadata. So I harked back to my Unix days and thought, why not go retro? Why not go back to the GUI as a wrapper around powerful and fast commandline tools? The use of an actual command line to perform all the actions was, of course, not strictly necessary, but if you are going retro, why not go all the way?
License
Chhobi is made available for download in the hope that it may be of some use. No claim is made that the code works and is free of bugs, but I would appreciate bug reports (kaushik.ghose@gmail.com)
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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