digital photo utilities

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Digital Photo Utilities

What does the digital photo utilities program do?

For the professional or serious amateur, digital photo utilities is a simple, yet powerful set of functions that help you get the most out of your digital photographs. The utilities work through a simple drag and drop interface. Whether you need to process one image or a whole folder, just drag your images files onto the appropriate button and the corresponding action will be carried out on your images. These utilities can be chained together to create sets of commonly used functions. The program is based on a plug-in that allows the utilities to grow over time.

This is NOT yet another picture viewer or editor. digital photo utilities is a new program that makes managing your digital photos as easy a drag and drop. It's the power of batch processing with the ease of use of a graphical user interface.

	The complete user manual is available online here: operation manual.
	There are also several tutorials available here.
	See the Examples Page to get an idea of what kind of Actions you can create

Overview

	Simple drag and drop interface to operate on a single image or a whole directory
	Organize your images by date and session automatically using powerful organization features not found in any other program.
	Set up common, uncommon or complex actions once and use them as often as you like without having to rediscover your technique each time
	Email images to your friends and family with a simple drag and drop
	Add comments and image titles that are stored with your image.
	Resize images in high quality
	Generate a web gallery of your images
	Add watermarks and captions to your images
	Render photorealistic frames around images
	Rename image files and automatically place them in folders based on date and time to help you manage your images
	Rotate JPEG images with no loss of image quality or information
	Resize images to create thumbnails or smaller versions of images for email or web pages
	Process images without losing EXIF metadata information (exposure, date etc saved by digital cameras)
	Combine tasks together easily into powerful actions

digital photo utilities can accept JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group), TIFF (Tag Image File Format), GIF (Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format), BMP (Windows Device Independent Bitmap), PNG (Portable Network Graphics), WMF (Windows Metafile, & EMF (Windows Enhanced Metafile) format files as input. Currently only JPEG images are output.

Basic Utilities

Resizer

The Resizer allows you to make smaller versions of your images in order to create thumbnails of small images for the web, or just to send email. Many programs lose the EXIF information that your digital camera stores (such as the date and time the picture was taken, exposure information etc) with the image when you resize the image. This Resize utility maintains all that information for you.

Rotator

The Rotator is a simple way to rotate images without any picture degradation. Many programs uncompress your image to display it, rotate the image and then recompress it. Every time you uncompress and recompress an image you lose some quality. The Rotator can be configured to rotate the image without any loss of quality. The Rotator utility also maintains all the EXIF information stored in the original image.

Caption

Caption allows you to create captions and watermarks for images. Any text or image can be rotated and superimposed on your image in a variety of colors and fonts with variable opacity.

Framer

The same rendering engine that powers PhotoFramer is included in digital photo utilities. It can be used to render striking, photorealistic frames around your images.

Saver

The Saver allows you to rename images or generate new names for images. It is useful for batch renaming images, or it can be used to save the results of other utilities. It allows you to specify the quality of the image compression so that you can control the resultant image size.

Mailer

The Mailer allows you to easily send images as attachments to email. When combined with Resizer, this provides a simple and easy drag and drop way to email images to your friends and family.

WebGen

WebGen quickly and automatically creates a complex gallery of web pages in a user defined style. The web pages generated are suitable for publishing to the internet, writing to a CD-ROM or just viewing locally.

MetaEdit

MetaEdit allows you to edit the Metadata (EXIF) associated with your image. It lets you add image titles, comments, copyright information, etc to the image file without affecting the image itself. DPU uses this information in many of its utilities. This data can be used by other programs as well.

Time Adjuster

Time Adjuster is a special purpose utility specifically designed to help you adjust times in your digital photos. It is useful to adjust times when take pictures in a different time zone or in daylight savings time and forget to set the camera's clock, if you notice after taking many images that your camera's clock is set incorrectly, or if you have pictures of an event that were taken with different cameras with unsynchronized clocks. Time Adjuster can adjust the EXIF metadata original date, digitized date, modified date and/or the file's creation date and modified date.

For more details, see the operation manual.