Photo Manager

Strangely, it seems like IPhoto on MacOs X doesn't even do much of what I'm interested in, so I'm playing with the idea of building a lite/local WebApp....

Context: assume (process, etc.)

• take photos over course of multiple days

• connect camera to computer, transfer

  • Photo images are in JPEG format

  • Digital Camera transfer app dumps files into folder hierarchy, with separate folder for each day (having recorded snap-date for each image).

• use existing app to rotate if necessary

• build as WebApp in Python, probably without any of the cool WebApp FrameWork-s. For image management libraries, might use PIL, might not (MacOs X has some proprietary stuff, plus there's some generate UNIX stuff, though maybe PIL provides a nicer interface to the latter)

Features:

• allow tagging of images with Meta Data (Wiki Name-s)

  • if certain existing Meta Data is in other fields, consider copying it to same Comment field (maybe with some transform - e.g. wiki-style date tag)

• create 1-2 lower-res variants of each image for uploading to online repositories

  • DotMac, FotoNotes, FlickR, Hosted Server folder, etc.

  • both tiny thumbnail (5kb?), and decent-looking mid-size (~50kb?) versions

  • keep tags in synch across variants of a given image

• do the above for a batch of photos at one time (within folder, selectAll or individual checkboxes)

• maybe tag-browser interface (or maybe generalize this to a standalone Wiki NameDirectory to support Sister Sites, other AppWiki-s, etc.?)

hmm, is that it?