Fast
Snappy
Thanks to its integrated database, Photophoria knows everything about every picture. That let's it show them instantly, whether you want to see your pictures by album, or by month.
Smart
Photophoria usually tries to give you the feedback as soon as it can. For example, when scrolling through your albums thumbnails, it will proactively load the next thumbnails to be shown. The result: the smoothest scrolling you've ever seen.
Heavy-Duty
As the development progresses, Photophoria benefits from some of the fastest algorithms available. Already, the indexing of the pictures uses some heavily optimised code, just like the loading of the JPEGs, which uses MMX and SSE2 optimisations.
Great Looking
Uncluttered UI
Photophoria aims at giving you all the features at a fingertip. There's no lenghty menus: all the info panels are readily available, whether to watch the tuhmbnails, to edit the pictures, and so on.
Thumbnails, and only thumbnails.
The Thumbnails are calculated from the Jpeg picture, are resized with the best possible quality, and shown with almost no adornment. So the interface stays clear, and good looking. Of course, when hovering over a picture, or when clicking on it, you get all the information you need, whether it's the EXIF embedded information, or simply some file statistics.
Zoooooom
When watching your pictures, benefit from a real-time zoom with great quality. The pictures are zoomed at your will (using the right-mouse button at the moment), using a sharp Bicubic Filtering, so that even when zoomed a lot, you still get all the details.
Powerful
Photophoria already integrates many filters to correct easily your photos. Whether you want to correct some under-exposure or remove some noise, Photophoria is here to help you.
Cross-platform
Photophoria is written in C++, using the wxWidgets library. It's portable, and has been built on Windows and Linux. A MacOS port is in progress and should be available very soon. On each platform, some specific adjustments are done to optimise the speed (using GDI+ on Windows and GDK on Linux for instance).
Yet to come
But this is still a work in progress. The big things coming ahead are:
- Al the features you'd expect from the Album GUI : add/remove/edit/rename an album, discard pictures, refresh album directories.
- A complete handling of user tags and commentaries. Although you can already assign tags to pictures (try right-clicking in the Tags panel, or drag on of the tags into a picture!), the feature set
- A Search panel, to access instantly any photo, by using a date range, a set of user-defined tags, or setting EXIF filters.
- Picture tools : Save/crop/rotate/Mail/upload on the internet, and so on...
- Faster Filters, so that you see instantly how the changes you're making impact the picture.
- Pluggable Filters. So that if one of the change you did in the chain of edits doesn't suit you (say: removing the noise), you can modify it, and Photophoria will recalculate the whole chain.
- Many UI enhancements. But you'll have to wait and see...