Image Curator is the first NEXTSTEP application dedicated to managing large image archives. Through the use of preprocessed thumbnails and a dynamic loading mechanism, Image Curator allows you to browse and manipulate, at interactive speeds, collections of images numbering in the 1000's. Whether your working with a small personal collection of icons or a corporate database of artwork, Image Curator simply gives you the fastest, easiest, access imaginable.
The core functionality of Image Curator starts with its ability to quickly create high quality thumbnail representations of images. The use of a specialized, highly configurable, thumbnailing algorithm lets users create thumbnails that are an order of magnitude superior to those available in any other application.
Collections of images are stored in documents called "galleries". Each gallery can contain a virtually unlimited number of images. One of the power features of Image Curator is its ability to store the thumbnail images that it creates as part of the gallery document. Not only does this allow Image Curator to load and display thumbnails in a fraction of the time required by other applications, it also lets the user browse through collections of thumbnails for images that are no longer present on the file system (as is the case with PhotoCDs and other removable media)
Image Curator is designed to handle a wide range of image archive management needs. The tool set provided by Image Curator allows for easy manipulation and browsing of galleries, rapid access to source images, and quick retrieval of images based on description and/or filename.
Features
- Full Image Filter service support
- Fully configurable thumbnailing algorithm
- Arbitrary thumbnail size specification
- Store thumbnails in gallery documents
- Parse directory hierarchies
- Sort images by image name, image path(directory), or image size
- Store description for individual images
- Store description for gallery
- Find images by description and/or filename
- Rearrange images in galleries
- Open source images in the Image Curator Quick Viewer or the default image viewing application.
Cost: $125 per user
Availability: Shipping now for NEXTSTEP and NEXTSTEP for Intel, 3.2 or greater.
For further information, contact:
Gemstone Systems, Inc.
19616 Redbeam Avenue
Torrance, CA 90503
310-370-4557
Fax: Please call for number
Email: info@gemstone.com or ImageCurator@gemstone.com