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Unique and Productive or Just More Eye-Candy?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sort-the-pics dept.

4ndys writes "A guy who goes by the name MacSlow is currently working on a project he calls LowFat. This is a photomanager with a twist. Rather than just viewing you pictures one at a time, you spread the pictures out over your desktop and can manage them in a much more natural way. He is hoping to release this on multiple platforms inc. Linux, Mac and Windows."

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  1. ideal way to manage photos (cool video) by mcguyver · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is how you manage photos:

    Crazy Multi-Input Touch Screen

    Althought likely vaporware, it would be cool to have a multi touch screen...

  2. Re:Seriously? by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Technically, it should be possible to view your tiny datasets in pretty much realtime.
    I manage it with terrabytes of data covering thousands of real mile data - over the internet.

    You might not make thumbnails, but with efficient caching you won't need to.

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  3. Already Down by Admiral+Trigger+Happ · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It appears that the /. affect has already hit him

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  4. Point missed by xvalentinex · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A lot of you guys including the Original Poster missed the point of his program (Could be that his server was ./ed so fast). He is wanting this to be more of a file-manager than a photo program, or even integrated with the file manager. Like explorer, nautilus, or konqueror. I think it's a great idea to moving to a new UI. I am bored with the current thumbnails way of management. I wonder how resource intensive it will be though, because that doesn't interest me in a file-manager.

  5. Re:So, basically, its Picasa? by badasscat · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've tried Picassa, tossed it, and purchased a photo app. Have you ever tried to scroll through a few hundred photos in Picassa? Google has a whole new (and bad) way for the scroll bar to work.

    You do realize there's a scrollbar on the right and a scrollbar on the left, didn't you?

    The scrollbar on the right can be used in several ways as well. You can pull the slider up and down, you can click anywhere in the scrollbar, you can use the arrow keys at the top and bottom, or you can click the "=" buttons to quickly move p and down a grouping of photos.

    If you don't like this, you can use the traditional scrollbar on the left to quickly navigate folders.

    I wonder what "photo app" you "purchased". Have you tried actually navigating through a large collection of photos in Photoshop? I actually use Picasa as a front-end to Photoshop; it blows the doors off Adobe Bridge, which is supposed to do some of what Picasa does but does it all very, very poorly (mostly because it takes about five hours for it to do simple things like display a thumbnail collection).

  6. Re:Natural Is Overrated by jlarocco · · Score: 2, Interesting
    It would be like having a music mgmt system that could find/organize music files by humming a melody or riff.

    Not to detract from your point, but in my mind, the image file equivalent of finding a music file by humming would be finding a photo by drawing a rough sketch of it. THAT would be really cool.

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  7. Re:A little fishy to me by 4ndys · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You could consider it fishy, however I'm not actually affiliated to him at all. I found the blog after following a link through from Ubuntu Forums. He has also mentioned to me that he would keep track of who had donated what, so if you were to donate you *could* end up getting it for no extra charge once it's complete.