Phraymd Helps You Manage Photos
November 1, 2009 by Clair Ching
Filed under applications
If you’re looking for a photo collection tool that is highly focused on helping you manage your photos then Phraymd could be thing that will help you. F-spot covers a whole lot more when it comes to managing photo collections with all those features such as editing your photos so that they could rotated, etc. But Phraymd seems to be more focused on your metadata.
The design philosophy of Phraymd includes the following:
- The user interface must not be a blocker.
- It keeps the metadata in the images.
- There is a database that keeps track of data for faster searching.
It looks really nifty to me. It also is said to be designed so that one could easily call other applications when needed. For example, image editing tools that will enhance your pictures. Or maybe viewing it using Firefox.
If you take a look at page about using Phraymd
you will see interesting features. For me, one of the interesting features is to be able to select a bunch of pictures and not lose that selection if I move to another image.
Selections are handled in a unique way in phraymd. Each image you click gets its selected status toggled. Images bordered with grey are selected. Unlike file managers such as nautilus, clicking from one image to the next doesn’t reset the selection. To clear your selection you have to do it from the selection menu. See? This way I could manage multiple images better. Especially when viewing a huge collection of images. I can’t wait to try this! Phraymd is also looking for people to use it and test it. It will be great if you could test it and give feedback. Of course, giving good feedback and not something too general might not be very helpful. Be specific about the your feedback especially when it comes to bugs so that the development of Phraymd will be better. There is a user group for Phraymd here so sign-up and be a part of it if you believe in this project. For those who want to try Phraymd, read this guide on installing and running Phraymd.
