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 ====Photo Management====
-Naturally the main feature of the software is photo management. The system will allow you to store and retrieve photos in three sizes (original, midsize and thumbnail) For each photo detailed information is stored such as: Title, Caption, Keywords, Shooting location, Exposure Date, Equipment used, Equipment settings, Storage location and more. The system supports, photo version control, duplicates, and submission history, so tracking where the photo was submitted has been never easier. Photos can be ranked so that they can be displayed in the order of their relevance. Photos can be organized into folders and albums - kind of virtual folders.
+Naturally, Photo Organizer's main feature is photo management.
-Image files are stored in an image repository with automatic volume manager which makes Photo Organizer more secure (as access to the image files is permitted only via PO) and to ease the upload porcedure, a bulk upload mechanism was added with XML, XMP, IPTC and EXIF metadata import. Shooting data converters from NKN, TXT and SDF into XML provides compatibility with your exisiting database.
+Each image you upload can be tagged with detailed metadata -- Captions, keywords, locations, timestamps, equipment you used and its settings, and more.  You can upload multiple versions of the same photograph, perhaps with different processing options.  Photos are organized in hierarchical folders, but can also be added into multiple //albums//, which are a sort of virtual folder, with permission control so that unauthorized users can't access images they shouldn't.
-Thanks to [[http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/|Dave Coffin's RAW image decoder]] Photo Organizer supports most RAW digital camera formats, enabling users to store original RAW files in the system's database.
+Photo Organizer supports the notion of photo lifecycles; images can be submitted to clients, and PO keeps track of physical image location and duplication for users that work with physical assets, such as slides or proofs sent to clients.
-  * Store each photo in three formats: thumbnail, preview and original.
+Image files are stored in an image repository with an automatic volume manager which emables splitting up large repositories into smaller chunks that are more easily managed and backed up.  Robust bulk upload features allow you to import hundreds, if not thousands of images in one go, complete with per-image metadata in XMP, IPTC, EXIF, and XML formats.  Shooting data converters from NKN, TXT and SDF into XML provides compatibility with your exisiting database.
-  * Store detailed shooting data for each photo apart, with support for Nikon Photo Secretary, SoftTALK, gIcon and XML shooting data import.
-  * Extract EXIF and IPTC data from JPEG and GIF images.
+Thanks to [[http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/|Dave Coffin's RAW image decoder]] Photo Organizer supports most RAW digital camera formats, enabling users to store original RAW files in the system's database.  Photo Organizer is also fully colorspace-aware, and can work with embedded ICC profiles to ensure that preview images are properly corrected.
-  * Photo Version Control allows you to store multiple variations of the same photo.
-  * Photo Dupe support allows you to track multiple physical copies of the same photo.
+Photo Organizer also has robust search and bulk update capabilities, making it a snap to tag multiple images at once with only the fields you want to change, or just find that one image that you took a couple of years ago of a particular belly dancer.
-  * Client Submission History - you can track where your dupes were submitted and where are they now.
-  * Rating System - where each user (including the owner) can rate each photo once.
+Finally, Photo Organizer is built to scale.  The author's personal site has over 22,000 images over nearly 500 folders as of this writing. As Photo Organizer makes full use of a relational database for metadata storage, your only real limitation is disk space.
-  * Photos are stored in a virtual folder system with the possibility to organize them into albums.
-  * Access rights on photos, folders and albums provide control over the accessibility of each photo in the system.
 ====Client Management, Shop Module and Date book====