Take control of your photo collection! DBGallery is loaded with professional features and has a photo database foundation. Explore your photo collection via logical views (by year and month, camera, exposure, keywords, etc.) or physical view (folders). Search for photos by keywords, camera data (Exif data) and IPTC/XMP data. Build collections of events, weddings, vacations, and other categories. It includes eMail and Website generation, used to communicate photos and data to clients (or family and friends). Photos exported to eMail or Websites may be watermarked. IPTC/XMP data is fully supported for reading and writing. Archived collections are supported, as are client-server office environments. Database benefit: Key data once, use it over and over for years to come for finding photos and including photo data in emails and websites. Tracks view counts for popularity sorting. Includes interesting graphical reports on your collection. Sports a surprisingly simple interface. ShareJunkies.com says 'The interface of DBGallery is simplicity itself, a really intuitive easy to understand interface.' In summary, its a whole new and addictive way to search, use and enjoy a photo collection.

* Key Once and use for years to come.
Once data is keyed and stored it is there for you for the years to come. This data describes the image for down the road and allows searching for groups of images, viewing this data, and generation websites which show the photos and their data. You'd be surprised how quickly data can be entered using the "Edit Multiple Images" feature (see below). The WebGallery allows data to be reused by generating web pages that include the photo and part of its data. Other uses for this data will be found as new features are added.
* IPTC Support
Excellent IPTC support! Picks up existing IPTC data as photos are added to DBGallery. Automatically writes data base to the file. Picks up changes made outside DBGallery. Supports editing as many photos' IPTC data as you wish. Has a "Differences" button when editing multiple images so existing data across all images can be viewed while editing. Deep under the covers DBGallery utilizes Adobe's IPTC/XMP Toolkit to do the actually writing of iptc/xmp metadata to files, providing superb metadata compatibility with Adobe's products as well as almost all other IPTC metadata editors.
* Data Searching
Search data based on keywords, subject, author, notes, and description...or all at the same time.
* Logical Views
Logical vs. Physical: A physical view of photos is how they are physically stored in folders (the old way of trying to find photos), whereas logical views are views of how photos may be organized by photo data. They may be organized by camera, for example, or year, month, ISO, number of views, etc. There are many interesting aspects to exploring a photo collection this way. For example, if you typically create a website (or upload your photos some other way) for each trip you take, exploring by year and month typically makes it very easy to go back over time to see find your various trip photos. Or view by keyword list and look for a given city or country (assuming that data has been keyed). These are just two of many more useful scenarios. It best to play with the various logical views to feel the benefits.
* Build Collections
A fast and handy way to build collections of photos. At any time you are viewing a photo that you feel would fit into a category or collection of photos, simply drag the image to a Quick Collection. To help grasp more clearly what they are, you may think of them as categories, buckets, holding areas, boxes, file cabinets, film rolls, etc. Because everyone thinks of such collections in a different manner like this, the Basic Configuration dialog allows these to be called anything. I.e. you may change "Quick Collections" text throughout the software by naming it "Film Roll", "Box", etc.
* WebGallery
Search for a set of photos, or choose a set of folders and images, and press the "Generate Website" button from the main menu. HTML is created, images copied and converted to the size you choose, thumbnails created, and data extracted. You're asked where to create the site and given a few options such as Title, etc. Where to create the sites means where on a local hard disk, to be transfer to the web later, but it also includes the option of sending the site's files directly to the Web via FTP! Outside DBGallery, this site could be burned onto a CD and given to others who have slow or no Internet access. NOTE: you need you own web space to put the generated files under since DBGallery or GRR Systems does not supply this.
* eMailGallery
Send photos and a selection of associated data via email. The email has data and the image in the body of the email, with the data just above the image. Advanced options are available such as including the original full size image as attachment along with the smaller image in the body. eMailGallery is a outstanding way to send photos to family and friends(include descriptions to give a complete story), or to send a selection of images to clients for review(Exif data, file info, and other data may be included in the email).
* Reports
Given that the system has database core it can generate profession looking reports. The reports included in this version include Counts by Camera, Author, Subjects, Year to Year, and Time of Year, as well as a number of Stock Agency reports (for those that sell their photos).
* Edit Mulitple Images
Enter data for multiple images at the same time. Example: I just took 300 photos for a "Coca-cola" marketing commission. Set "Coca-cola" and other keywords on all 300 photos at the same time. Then select perhaps 50 of those and key more detail data. Then select 4 or 5 that have other similar attributes, and so on. Done by selecting whichever images are from the shoot and selecting "Edit Multiple Images" in the main window, then keying data for all images at the same time.
* Move Data Around
Once keyed, data and/or photos can be moved around via drag and drop to other folders. This is useful, for example, when creating collections of images where one simply does drag'n drop of images and it's data. Another practical example is for re-arranging your photos. For example, if initially photos are added to one folder and data keyed for those photos, you may move or copy the photos AND it's data to other folders if you decide to re-arrange your photos. Another usage is if photos are re-arranged outside DBGallery then data can be moved from it's original location to the new location. Also available is the Data Cascade ability: copy an images data to all photos that have the same filename (or the filename and it's metadata for a more accurate match).
* Photo Central: Drag'n Drop Images to Other Programs
When needing to find a photo to do something with like emailing, editing in a photo editor, or to print, pull up DBGallery, do a quick search, and drag'n drop the photo to the email client, editor, folder, etc. While DBGallery doesn't attempt to do everything that can be done with photos it is a outstanding compliment to your photo program toolset and works in conjunction with them: find your photos easily in DBGallery and the simply drag and drop them for use in your printer software, photos editor, etc. This works because photos are not stored in the database, but in their original locations. DBGallery simply stores the location (e.g. c:\my pictures\MyHouse.jpg) and passes that location to the your other program tools when you drag'n drop a photo from DBGallery.

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, the price is $49.95, you can free download and get a free trial.