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FotoArchive 2.5.1 for Art-Historians and Archaeologists (Freeware)
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Since the software presented here by Prof. Demetris Loizos (American College of Greece) can be downloaded for free we like to publish the following
information; if you have comments or like to discuss alternative solutions, feel free to contact the editors.
FotoArchive 2.5.1 for Art-Historians/Historians/Archaeologists (Freeware) In 1996 I began collecting digital images to be used in a web page for my survey of western civilization course. The collection was stored on a zip drive
but I noticed that every time I saved images on the zip, my image viewer used
more and more space of my hard disk drive to store thumbnails of my images.
My
frustration with image viewers increased when I found out that I could not use
notes for my images although in one of the viewers I used I could create sticky-
type notes, which covered part of the image though. Still another problem was
that I could not view on the screen two different collections at the same time.
As I was fully acquainted with programming, I began exploring object-oriented
WINDOWS programming and in late 1998 I produced the first PC version of FotoArchive software.
With FotoArchive latest version, you can catalog your digital images by dividing them into albums and storing them ideally on a CD-RW, CD-ROM or Zip/Super disk. Although you may view your images in a thumbnail form, no thumbnails are saved and no hard disk is used. You can view your images one by
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one as a whole or in parts with the use of scrollbars, if they exceed the size
of a 800x600 screen resolution. You may drag and drop the images directly from
FotoArchive to Word or any other OLE2 computer program. You may view as many albums as your computer memory permits at the same time side by side and transfer images from one to another. You can write three different sets of notes for each one of the images, i.e. Category, Title, Notes, without affecting the image itself, and view them side by side with the images. You can
print one, some, or all of your images along with (or without) the notes.
You
can search, manipulate, and feed to image editors your images in a number of ways. You will find all software capabilities described on the on line help or
the manual. I now use FotoArchive a lot to catalog pictures I take with my digital camera and store on CD-RW disks.
FotoArchive can run under Windows95/98/Me/NT4.0/2000/XP and above even on 486
Laptops with 8MB of memory although ideally you will use a Pentium based PC with 128MB of memory. FotoArchive will use only 2.6MBs of hard disk and can be
installed and uninstalled easily on any laptop and desktop PC.
The experts at the Tucows organization rated FotoArchive as excellent software
(5/5 cows). According to Tucows statistics, more than 9,000 individuals have downloaded and used FotoArchive since January 2001.
FotoArchive is available for downloading at:
1. The Tucows sites
USA URL: http://www.tucows.com/business/preview/198387.html Europe URL: http://www.tucows.gr/business/preview/198387.html 2. FotoArchive home page
http://users.hol.gr/~dilos/anistor/software/fotoarchive.htm
FotoArchive is freeware, made, maintained, and distributed by a scholar freely
to other scholars or non-commercial users.
I would appreciate it if you sent me your comments, questions, and suggestions
on the application and how you use it.
D. I. Loizos
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History Professor, Library Archaeologist
Reference:
WWW: FotoArchive 2.5.1 for Art-Historians and Archaeologists (Freeware). In: ArtHist.net, Jan 10, 2003 (accessed Feb 27, 2022), <https://arthist.net/archive/25439>.
