Preclick Corporation announced that it has begun shipping its Preclick Lifetime Photo Organizer. According to the company, Lifetime is the fastest, easiest photo organizer on the market that lets users find, print, share, and upload photos with fast searchable caption and editing parameters.

Lifetime's SmartPhoto technology is designed to help users notate keywords on the ‘back' of their digital photos. This information-called ‘metadata'-can then be entered into Preclick's PhotoBack interface, and includes caption, subject, title, event, place and photo rating. These notations should enable Preclick users to find, group, and manage their photo collections.

software - Preclick Lifetime Photo Organizer

Photos can be exchanged with this embedded information between Preclick compatible users, products, and services as well as with industry formats like XMP, which makes the photo information visible in Adobe Photoshop and other software and services.

Preclick helps new digital camera users create online photo albums. And its built-in email button should make it easy to share favorite pictures with family and friends. Preclick Lifetime now allows users to print their photos on a home printer or upload to professional photo-finishers. Professionally printed photos of archival quality arrive in the mail within a few days.

Key features include:

• Filmstrip-style design navigates photos by timeline, roll, location, rating, and title.
  
• Prints on home printers using a variety of page layouts and prints title, date and caption.
  
• One-click red eye removal.
  
• Cropping (both free form and standard 4x6, 5x7 and 8x10 sizes).
  
• Adjusts color balance and brightness.
  
• Conversion to black and white or sepia.
  
• Rotates photo.
  
• Unlimited undo command with memory.
  
• Ability to revert back to the original photo - no matter how many edits.
  
• Slideshow tool.
  
• Copies photos to a removable media device (such as a Zip disk or USB key drive) or another location.
  
• Downsizes pictures.
  
• Embeds caption, subjects, event, place, and date info into the photos.

Preclick is offered at two price points: $19.95 for Lifetime and free for Basic. Users can try out the features for 20 days and then decide whether they wish to keep all the features or let the software downgrade to the free basic version.

7/28/2003 - Daytrum Editorial Staff