The Mapivi application was designed to be an open-source and cross-platform (UNIX, Mac OS X and Windows) picture manager / organizer written in Perl/Tk. Mapivi is a stand alone tool, there is no need for a web server, online access or a database.
The advantages you have, when using Mapivi as a frontend to these tools are:
· simply choose the pictures to process by clicking on their thumbnail
· useful default values for all supported manipulations
· easy to use frontend
· undo functionality (backup)
· batch processing
Here are some key features of "Mapivi":
· thumbnail
· filename
· comments
· EXIF infos (date, time, aperture, exposure time, ISO, mode, camera in a short readable form)
· IPTC/IIM infos
· file size, size in pixels, aspect ratio (4:3, 3:2, 1:1, ...)
· generate and display thumbnail pictures
· store generated thumbnail pictures in a subdir or a thumbnail database for faster access the next time the directory is opened
· IPTC/IIM information (International Press Telecommunications Council Information Interchange Model) with keywords, categories, location, headline, caption/abstract, writer, ...:
· display
· add, edit (also multiple pictures at once) [more]
· hierarchical IPTC keywords and categories
· save and merge IPTC templates
· rating of pictures with the IPTC urgency flag, may also be used to sort and search pictures
· EXIF (EXchangeable Image File) information (date, time, aperture, exposure time, ISO speed, ...):
· display EXIF
· copy EXIF
· save and restore EXIF (useful, when processing a picture with a program like The GIMP below v2.0)
· remove EXIF
· alter EXIF date/time absolut or relative
· (re)build, copy, rotate EXIF thumbnail
· reset/clear EXIF orientation flag
· embedded JPEG comments (single and multiple comments are supported):
· display
· add, edit, copy, join or remove
· add comments to multiple pictures without overwriting the existing comments (e.g. to add a copyright notice to many pictures at once (batch processing). Without overwriting the existing comments.)
· search for pictures (mapivi keeps a database with all file names, directories, EXIF, IPTC data and comments) [more].
· import pictures from a digital camera, memory card or other device [more]
· file operations: rename, copy, move, email and delete pictures
· directory operations: rename, create, delete
· lossless JPEG rotation (90, 180, 270 degrees or automatic rotation using the EXIF orientation flag)
· compare/diff two picture directories and show all files which differ by: file name, file size, pixel size, comment, EXIF info, IPTC info[more]
· rotate pictures at any angle (this is not a lossless operation) [more]
· lossless JPEG cropping to any format (useful when printing and framing pictures) [more]
· search for duplicate pictures (by file name or by file size)[more]
· resize pictures, change the quality (-> file size) of pictures
· filter a picture (normalize, equalize, saturation, gamma, unsharp mask, ...) [more]
· export a static html web gallery of the selected pictures with comments and EXIF and IPTC infos
· (mapivi uses a page template so the design and layout of the html page is very flexible). These html galleries may be presented on a web page or burned on a CD-ROM.[examples] [more]
· add a border/drop shadow and/or a copyright info (text or picture) to images [examples] [more]
· build index prints [more]
· compare details between two or more pictures by switching between these pictures zoomed to the same picture area
· batch rename pictures (e.g. according to their internal EXIF or file date, e.g. "yyyymmdd-hhmm.jpg")
· auto zoom pictures to fit on the screen or window
· show pictures in a slideshow
· interpolate dead and hot pixels (also possible while importing pictures)
· show the histogram of a picture[more]
· make screenshots (single window or complete desktop)
· use a picture as desktop background
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· speed improvement up to 10 times faster when reading in a directory a second time
· new feature: browse pictures by timeline (distribution of pictures over month and year)
· new feature: browse pictures by keyword/tag clouds (most popular tags are displayed in a bigger font)
· new feature: detect new IPTC keywords in pictures and asks to add them to the keyword catalog
· new feature: integrated color chooser (Tk::ColorChooser is no longer needed)
· new feature: color picker (color pipette) to choose a color of a picture, the picked color may be used to e.g. add an adequate frame color
· search for duplicate pictures may now be restricted to selected directories
· restoring pictures from the trash is now quite easy as the original folder info is saved
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