New app is faster way to sort your digital photos

Dec 3 2009 By The Journal

SEARCHING through our old photos could soon be a lot easier thanks to a Newcastle firm which is releasing a new application for the iPhone.

See-Fish Technology has created 3D image browsing software called See-View that allows users to search through digital collections and quickly locate specific images.

The application, which it expects to release before Christmas, has been created with funding from North East Finance's Design and Creative Fund and developed in association with Middlesbrough-based iPhone game specialists Fluid Pixel.

See-View has been designed to meet the growth in digital image capture and storage technologies.

It maps out collections of images in 3D cubes which users can rotate and zoom in and out using the iPhone's multi-touch capabilities to find what they want.

Richard Perdik, See-Fish managing director, said: "This is cutting-edge technology that makes browsing and finding digital images easier and faster.

"Digital images are usually indexed with text tags or key word searches or can require a manual search through thumbnails to find what you want.

"This can be hugely time-consuming. See-View is a unique visual search application that allows multiple images to be browsed at once."

The software has been transferred to the iPhone from an image management tool designed for large commercial collections thanks to funding of £25,000 from the Design and Creative Fund, in addition to support from the North East England Investment Centre and advice and guidance from Business Link.