[Tens of thousands of digital photos] + [Many CDs] = CyPics

CyPics 1.0 - Image Cataloguing and Slide Show Software for Windows built to handle tens of thousands of digital images spread over many CDs.

CyPics delivers five key benefits to its users: CD naming support , smart image registration, menu driven image selection, useful thumbnail views and quality slide shows. Suitable for digital camera owners, Internet enthusiasts, professional photographers and collectors where mixing digital imaging with CD storage makes naming CDs a must have feature.

CyPics does not treat your images on CD as just being on drive D: or E:. CyPics records the CD identification and requests a ‘friendly name’ to be used for each CD in load requests. CyPics knows which CD each image is stored on and will request the required CD whenever access is made to the original image. Where a slide show is to play images from multiple CDs you can set the order in which the CDs are used rather than having a CD shuffle.

The labor intensity of the image registration process is reduced by a smart approach that remembers the past. CyPics makes use of the fact that successive photographs have things in common such as time, place and people. With the information from preceding photographs readily available the number of keystrokes is reduced and productivity improved.

CyPics uses a query based approach to image selection with the result that freshly added images are automatically included in a selection whenever they meet the existing criteria. Image selection is made easy through a menu driven form which defines the conditions images must meet to be selected. Selection criteria may be named and permanently stored.

The thumbnail view provides useful information about the displayed images, not just the filename. Thumbnail images and their descriptions are shown with full registration details available by simply positioning the mouse pointer over an image. A compact full screen display format is used to maximize the number of images displayed. The quality and size of thumbnails is user selectable.

Images are expanded to fit the screen during slide shows. The textual information displayed includes title and sub-title slides as well as image descriptions. Each image is displayed for a selectable part of its display time without any overlaid text covering the image. Slide shows support random and ordered sequences, many transition effects and indefinite repeat. Keyboard control options include: pause, adjust the image display duration, navigate up or down and edit image registration details.

Other product benefits:

·        Easy to learn as a discovery system leads you through initial use of the program.

·        Help is immediately available for all aspects of program operation. 

·        Its your information you have entered to catalog your photographs. CyPics lets you access your information directly via Microsoft Access or through an export function.

·        Photograph album databases do not continually grow, database compaction manages their fluctuating space requirements.

·        You can move, rename, edit or delete images outside of CyPics and then use the maintenance functions that come with CyPics to realign the album database with changes made to your disk storage.

CyPics - File Registration Screen Shot
CyPics - Image Selection Screen
CyPics - Full Screen Thumbnail View @ 800 x 600 with 120 pixel high thumbnails

CyPics Standard Edition requires a minimum Pentium 100 processor running Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0 or 2000, 32 MB RAM (64 preferred), 20 MB hard disk space, 256 colors or better, and a minimum screen resolution of 800 x 600.

Use of Microsoft Access as the database format requires some software prerequisites which are described at http://www.cywarp.com/Installation.htm