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What is PhotoProbe

If you're a fan of digital photography, you'll often take multiple shots of the same subject with slightly different settings to be able to later choose the best picture. You can find it by browsing through all the photos. But when you find it, what were the settings you used after all? Did they improve as the exposure time grew longer? Or was the ISO speed the most important factor? To better get an idea of how the different camera settings influenced your images, the easiest way would be to have them laid down side by side, sorted according to those settings. Then, a quick visual scan might suffice to tell you what influence a particular setting had (all the more so if you are still learning). PhotoProbe is an application that allows you to do just that: compare different photos with different settings in an immediate, straightforward way.

How Much does it Cost?

Well... nothing! This is an Open-Source project released under the GNU General Public License. There is something you can do to 'pay me', though: if you like PhotoProbe, find a bug or have ideas about new features post a message to let me know. Everyone likes to see their work appreciated by others...

Downloads

The current version of PhotoProbe is v0.6.1, available at the SourceForge project page:

Revision History

v0.6.1 - 11/8/2003: Solved bug: last cell ignored while filtering out photos on the 'Explore' pane.; New skins: Fire and Ice.
v0.6 - 7/8/2003: New skin: Halloween; Now stores all thumbs in the same directory, to allow the exploring of photos on non-writable media (CDs, etc.) and to prevent the proliferation of '.pp_thumbs' directories everywhere. Furthermore, now the thumbs expire if the original photo was changed.; The skins are now read from a special-purpose dir.
v0.5.1 - 31/7/2003: Solved bug related to running PhotoProbe from directories with spaces in the name.
v0.5 - 30/7/2003: New skins: Sunny Day, Line Art, Underwater; Skins are no longer hard-coded, but listed in the 'skins.txt' file instead.; In fullsize view, you can now see the image's histogram.; Now correcly encodes urls for file names with special chars.; New directory browser can be used to select location of photos instead of filling it by hand
v0.4 - 25/7/2003: PhotoMatrix is now Called PhotoProbe (there already was a 'PhotoMatrix' at Sourceforge; The project is now located at Sourceforge; New parameter to control the width of the original photos when displaying them; Added support for older Nikon photos (not all work though. Nikon 4300 produces weird results); Now displays EXIF data on the fullsize views and on the pics. tooltips.; Now displays a small thumb near the name of a file in the 'Files' Pane.; Shutdown now displays a friendlier goodbye message; New skin: Strawberry
v0.3.1 - 24/07/2003: Solved minor bugs relating to table formatting in the 'Photos' pane; Now you can click on thumbnails and photo names to get the full version.
v0.3 - 24/07/2003: First public release

Credits

The Windows version is compiled with the help of Python Win32 Extensions and McMillan Enterprises' Python Installer.

Disclaimer

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.