• Find that photo you have

You know you've been there

You travelled the world and captured every moment, for work or for play. You know that you have been there. How do you find that photo which you know you took it ? 

The Birth of Photo Aggregator

The concept of Photo Aggregator came about when members of the team came together and started to discuss the pains of finding a particular photo that we knew was taken, but could not recall when and where. Apple’s Photo app was great but it needed all the photos either on device or on iCloud.

How about the photos that is taken from the DSLRs and other cameras? As an amateur photographer, one of us had taken hundreds of thousands of photos but locating a specific photo has also proven to be a challenge even with proper folder filing on a NAS.

There are quite a number existing solutions available which the team has explored. Most fell short as it lacks many of the features that we want. This has lead to the team in putting their capabilities together and wrote this software to aggregate all the sources of photos that we have so that we can locate that photo that we knew it existed somewhere in our own library.

We call it Photo Aggregator. 

Map Display

Timeline Display

Image View

All roads lead to Rome

Photo Aggregator builds its own database which consist of thumbnails generation, favourite tags, Object detection etc.

It is non-destructive to your source of photos and does not require you to import the photos into the application at all. You simply define the location of your photos such as a NAS Destination or a local folder.

The metadata of the images are picked up from the source locations during the scanning phase of each photo. Upon completion, you will be able to query these metadata information.

Photo Aggregator also provides many ways of searching your photos. It is a companion app to your favourite editing tool. It's main purpose is to search and locate your images. You can search for all the photos you took from a specific location, taken with a particular lens using EXIF, or from a particular time period.

Find similar photos taken from the same location or even similar looking background based on the colour tone.

These are all possible because of today’s technologies such as object detection based off Machine Learning.  There is no right  or wrong way of storing your photos.

It is how we can use Photo Aggregator to bring all in a single interface that helps to to locate it fast.

Various ways of searching

Smart Search similar images or objects in Image View, Map View & Timeline View.

Brief Intro to Photo Aggregator