Overview
If you have lots of pictures stored on your computer drive and you want to sort, comment and publish them easily, my PhotoDiary will help you.
My PhotoDiary is a Web application which allows to publish and securely share your pictures with your relatives and friends. It is multilingual and currently translated into English, Spanish and French.
Your pictures and comments will be your family diary: you want to keep them safely for tens of years and even more: my PhotoDiary only uses sustainable IT technologies because we want our digital souvenirs to be long lasting and easy to migrate when IT technologies evolve.
To try it, click on "Download" and navigate with the menu bar at the page top.
Main features and screen captures
My PhotoDiary is a content management application which runs on laptops, desktop or servers. You can either use it as a local application on your PC or as a Web application to share your pictures.
- Pictures can be browsed from a smartphone, tablet or PC. The user experience is adapted to your device.
- Pictures can be uploaded from a smartphone, tablet or from a PC. They are automatically published, indexed, dated and "thumbnailed". You can comment your pictures and build your photo diary. All the pictures information is kept in a database.
- Pictures are sorted by dates, themes, quality and geolocation. It is then easy to retrieve pictures through these criteria.
- my PhotoDiary performs access control: people accessing your pictures are authenticated. Pictures are sorted by group to control who can browse them. Authenticated users have roles which control who can browse or comment or publish pictures.
- my PhotoDiary works on MS Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. It is a all-in-one web application embedding a web server and a database. It is installed in a snap.
PC screen captures
Once you have logged in to the application, you can define the welcome picture for the application visitors. Here the default picture when you install the aplication.
You browse your pictures which are sorted by date and shooting sequence. Here a picture from November 2014, which belongs to the "landscapes" shooting sequence. You can navigate with arrow keys, launch a slide show and turn full-screen mode. You can also scroll the thumbnails to quickly find a picture.
You and your relatives can comment the pictures and the shooting sequences. This information is displayed on "Post-it" when you move the cursor over the picture.
The pictures geolocation is also stored by the application. You can display them on maps and adjust or edit the location.
It is easy to publish new pictures by drag and drop from your local disk.
Mobile screen captures
The application layout is responsive: it automatically adapts to the user's device: mobile and tablet. Once you are logged-in you access to the application welcome page. A quick tap on the screen toogles the top and bottom menu bars. When the mobile is turned, the application layout is resized to display in portrait or landscape mode.
The application main menu allows:
- to browse the images through time,
- to use search criteria and
- to take pictures and publish them.
You browse pictures by navigating through year, months and shooting sequences.
In a shooting sequence, to scroll the pictures, you swipe the screen from right to left or from left to right. A quick tap on the screen toogles the top and bottom menu bars.
The right to left swipe shows the next picture.
A click on the "Menu button reveals the main menu."
A click on the "Search" button opens a search pannel where you select search criteria:
- from and to dates,
- themes (or attributes),
- picture minimum rating.
When you browse a picture, a click on the bottom bar, button "Comment" displays for few seconds a "Post-it" with the picture and shooting sequence comments. A second click on the "Post-it" allows to edit the comments.
Latest news
- 2015-04-15:
- The creation of myPhotoDiary web-site.
- 2015-02-21:
- The beta release 0.9.3. It is mainly a restructuring of the application to prepare the future release 0.9.4 and continuous scrolling.
- 2015-01-11:
- The beta release 0.9.2. It brings a new interface for mobiles with photo capture and publishing from smartphones and tablets.
- 2014-11-12:
- The first beta release 0.9.1. It provides all-in-one packaging for windows and UNIX which greatly simplifies the application installation and launching.
- 2014-10-05:
- The alpha release 0.8.7: It supports image attributes hierarchy. It is possible to search all the family images, or only the subset of children images.
- 2014-07-26:
- The alpha release 0.8.5: It provides an optimized presentation for mobile devices: iPhone and Android. It uses jquery mobile for a great user experience.
. . . - 2014-06-15:
- the 1st alpha release of my PhotoDiary.