PhotoComment written 4 years ago

Software to edit the descriptions of your photos.

This program was written because I couldn’t find a quick and easy piece of software to edit the description of many photos.

The software updates the comment field of the JPEG file - This means the comments entered inserted by PhotoComment can be readable by many photo manipulation programs.

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Screenshot

Features

• Easily view photos without comments using the new Filter options.

• Sort photos by date, filename and comments.

• Quickly skim through your photo collection, adding/editing comments as you like.

Download

If you just want to download and run the program, you’ll want the

Binary jar file [1.2.0]

However, If you want to get a little geekier, you can also have the java Source.

Source files [1.2.0]

I am distributing the source of this in the vain hope that someone will see my code, take pity and make a mucho better version.

In both cases you’ll need the Java Run Time Engine thing.

FAQ

Some questions you might want answered

Why did you create this?

• Because I wanted an easy way of transmitting the title and description of a photo online, along with the photo itself. This is to be used in my online gallery thinger, should it ever be finished.

Hang on, in the program there’s two fields Title and Description? What’s the deal you told me you were only editing the comments field?

• Well, because I couldn’t find a decent Java EXIF Library (which is what I really wanted), I had to use what i could find, and that happened to be the w3c Jigsaw JPEG Library.

  This only supports editing of the comment field, so to simulate two fields the Title and Description are both written into the comment field, but with two newline characters between them.

  This works ~okay but I would much prefer a nice EXIF solution, but I have yet to see a (free) implementation in Java.

When I look at the image info in Photoshop/Paint Shop Pro there’s some funny squares in the Description? What’s that?

• Those are the above mentioned newline characters. A small side effect that shouldn’t do anybody any harm.

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