1 Introduction
The development of PFotos was motivated by a lack of image database statistics in most of image processing and organizing tools like Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, Phase One’s Capture One and a lot of more not to be listed here.
PFotos was inspired by Lightroom Dashboard 1 but hopefully provides some extended features. The goal was to make a stand-alone application that provides statistics on cameras, lenses, aperture and more image information taken from the EXIF data embedded in the images. Of course, the extraction of those information should act non-destructive on the images and should work on large catalogues or directory structures for comfort of the user.
TigerGraphics PFotos was developed under MacOS and Linux 15.1 in Tcl/Tk, the extraction of EXIF data is done by the famous exiftool developed by Phil Harvey2. The Exiftool shall be installed on MacOS and Linux, either from the repositories of the distribution or from the installation packages from the before mentioned website.
Additionally, PFotos was ported to Microsoft Windows 10, which was the most challenging task and resulted in the decision to embed the exiftool executable in the PFotos structure for a flawless integration up to PFotos 1.4.
With PFotos 1.5 the exiftool can be installed and updated separately.
Additionally, the integration of two more tools was implemented: ImageMagick3 and DCRaw4.
Please refer to the preferences section Chapter 7 for details.