• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Is there a database program for image files?

E

eviltoon

Senior member
I've just scanned some 3,000 photographs. I named each file as a number ie: by roll and shot. I was hoping to find a program that would allow me to access each image several different ways. Either by subject (landscape, portrait), year taken, location...that sort of thing. I was thinking a database would allow me to sort by various entries, but would it allow me to open up the files once I got a list of say landscapes taken in august 2000.

Does anyone know if there is a program out there that can do this sort of thing?
 
You can store them into an access, or sql, database in a OLE object field. Then, using the other fields, you can enter keywords, categores, etc, that you could index and reference.
 
This is a cool idea for an application...
The app shows thumbnails of all your pics, a directory at a time.
Now you select groups of photos (or individual pics), and pic a category from a drop down menu to assign to them. Could also have a date field. Any photo can have an arbitrary number of catagories assigned, and catagories can be created on-the-fly. The program dumps all of this info into an RDB.

Now the other end of the app has a simple query builder (pick a date range, and list of catagories). Submit the query, and get a screen of thumbnails that match. Click to see the full image. Maybe another query builder to refine the search.
Would be very cool!

If only I had the time. It probably wouldn't be that hard.
Could even do it web based with PHP & Image Magick
 
Originally posted by: ergeorge
This is a cool idea for an application...
The app shows thumbnails of all your pics, a directory at a time.
Now you select groups of photos (or individual pics), and pic a category from a drop down menu to assign to them. Could also have a date field. Any photo can have an arbitrary number of catagories assigned, and catagories can be created on-the-fly. The program dumps all of this info into an RDB.

Now the other end of the app has a simple query builder (pick a date range, and list of catagories). Submit the query, and get a screen of thumbnails that match. Click to see the full image. Maybe another query builder to refine the search.
Would be very cool!

If only I had the time. It probably wouldn't be that hard.
Could even do it web based with PHP & Image Magick
Click to expand...

Easier with perl. I'm writing an ASP port to it right now.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top