BrilliantPhoto Helps Manage and Share Digital Snapshots Automatically Resizes and Compresses Pictures for E-Mailing Eric Grevstad
Mon 12/22/03 -- Got photos? Brilliant Labs' new toolkit for managing, sharing, and editing digital images, BrilliantPhoto, lets digital-camera owners assign names, places, keywords, and ratings (one to five stars) to images with just one click per item. The $29 program uses the Information Interchange Model for photo metadata developed by the Newspaper Association of America and International Press Telecommunications Council to embed this descriptive info in the photo file itself, so keywords and descriptions stay with an image when it's e-mailed, exported, or archived.
Intelligent grouping technology automatically organizes your digital photos in real time, rearranging them when new keywords are added or descriptions changed. A photo calendar and search function make it easy to retrieve images, while export options range from e-mail with automatic resizing and compression to burning photo CDs, creating Web-based albums, or publishing your photo library to your TiVo for viewing on your TV.
BrilliantPhoto's editing functions manage each version of an image, preserving the original while letting users remove red-eye; adjust lighting, color, contrast, sharpness, and saturation; or crop or touch up images. In addition to importing images directly from digital cameras, card readers, or CDs, the program automatically retrieves images from the inbox of any MAPI-compatible e-mail client.
