I’ve got some good ideas for speeding up the data entry in photos that I plan to put into the next version. I’ve been falling behind on my photo data entry so I might as well improve the process before spending the time to get the data in. 
I’m going to get the current tasks development all wrapped up before changing gears and working on photos again, but here are some of the things I want to do in the upcoming releases.
photos 4.1:
- Upgrade to latest version of Exifer.
- Add support for Exposure in Canon 300D.
- Localization - the longer I wait, the more work it becomes.
- Bug fixes.
This could be photos 4.5:
- Support for groups/albums/rolls - however you want to call it.
- Add ‘browse’ bar w/ previous and next links.
- Adding data to multiple photos at once (editable list).
- Select multiple photos and change data about them (for example ‘indoor’ to ‘outdoor’).
- Improve image quality trying various techniques (imagecopyresampled).
This could be photos 5.0:
- Support for additional image formats.
- Export to web gallery applications.
- Slideshow export.
This could be Photos Pro 1.0:
- Multi-user support.
- Allow ‘browse only’/guest access.
- Support for linking photos together as ‘versions’ of the same photo (print version, web version, thumbnail, etc.).
Thoughts?
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Elaine adds this Comment:
I just discovered photos and downloaded it over the weekend — amazing work! (donation to follow soon)
I’d love to see the ‘versions’ feature; it’s the one thing I didn’t see in any of the software/services that I looked at, and it would be a great help.
I’ve even mentioned it at work as something we could use in our department, where we have a lot of photos and people working in two different OSs. (For work, ‘browse only’ could be quite useful.)
Thanks for sharing both your software and your thoughts for future features.
November 26th, 2003 at 12:51 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
Thanks for the comment; I’m glad you’re liking it.
November 26th, 2003 at 2:08 pm
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photos and IPTC supportI spent some time discussing digital photo management with Adam Tow yesterday evening. Adam is re-organizing his vast digital photo collection and has looked at a number of different tools. What he wants is a nice fat client interface for captioning an…
December 2nd, 2003 at 9:27 am
BB adds this Comment:
Maybe I missed it, but is there a plan to have the photos autoresize so they can be seen within the boundaries of the web browser?
Along with that, it would be nice to be able to follow the photo to its souce. In that manner, one could see it alone inside of the web browser, letting the web browser resize a large photo to the extent of its window. Also, this would allow one to easily print the photo.
December 27th, 2003 at 3:34 am
Alex adds this Comment:
I don’t plan to add functionality to detect the browser window size and size the photo accordingly, but there is a setting in the config for what size you want the preview image to be.
The ability to view the original image alone is already in the current 4.1 release. Just click on the link on the URL for each photo.
December 27th, 2003 at 10:20 am
simone adds this Comment:
did you consider adding some kind of “integration” between your photos hack for b2/wordpress and “photos”?
February 12th, 2004 at 10:43 am
Alex adds this Comment:
No, because I don’t believe the web server is the right place to store your original images. At least for 95+% of the web using population.
February 12th, 2004 at 10:46 am
Gerd adds this Comment:
Hi, Are there already any plans when there will be a release of photos4.5. I´m really looking forward to using groups.
March 15th, 2004 at 12:35 am
Alex adds this Comment:
I need a few more hours in the day.
March 15th, 2004 at 12:55 am
Gerd adds this Comment:
But the day has 24 hours and if you don´t sleep even more
March 15th, 2004 at 3:37 am
Alexis Iglauer adds this Comment:
I am an avid fan of Tasks and am now looking for a tool to organise my digital photos. I feature I would need though, is to be able to catalogue RAW files (in my case NEF files from a Nikon camera). Is there any chance of adding this? The code to convert the files is available (dcraw, see http://www.cybercom.[...]offin/dcraw/ or http://www.insflug.org/raw/) — I don’t know if it would be possible to simply call that on-the-fly.
Regards,
Alexis
March 30th, 2004 at 12:23 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
I think to call those packages you’d need to have phpexec enabled. Almost all hosts do not have it enabled as it is a security risk.
March 30th, 2004 at 2:51 pm
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Photos Localization Started
I’ve started the planned localization for Photos. WordPress ended up using a different localization scheme then the one I built but I’m finding it’s working well for my needs.
I worked on this a little on the flight last night and found tha…
April 20th, 2004 at 11:42 am
Tom adds this Comment:
I’d like to see an “idiot nag” that would prevent someone from reloading the same folder or photo over again into the database creating multiple instances - a “record exists, overwrite, skip, overwrite all, skip all” dialog would server the purpose well.
Since photos loads recursively, I have had users simply click on the add button for the 2005 folder, and load second copies of all the previously loaded records - it’s a pain to clean up.
April 12th, 2005 at 7:17 am
timothy adds this Comment:
photos pro 1.0 would be amazing. from what i’ve seen so far i like the clean-cut design and style of this software. even now i’m impressed with how it works, and am anxiously looking forward to future releases. as Alexis Iglauer commented on March 30, integration for nikon’s raw format would be very very nice.
July 3rd, 2005 at 8:54 am