PhotoCopy (5.7.0)
PhotoCopy is freeware Windows software to transfer pictures from one or more cameras to a PC and puts them in folders sorted by date.
Features
Short overview of the features of PhotoCopy:
- Copy photos from different cameras to your PC
- Large preview screen with histogram and EXIF info
- Fast loading thumbnail preview screen with fast image selection and handling
- Copy photos to different folders by date and/or subject
- (Auto) rotate images during copy from camera to PC
- Configurable, optional warning to make a backup of your copied photos to an external server or hard disc
- Create a QuickPick to fastly select images for use on a website or photoalbum
- Within a QuickPick there are options to (fine) rotate images and to crop parts of images or to perform some simple image adjustments
Description
With PhotoCopy you are able to copy all of your precious pictures from your camera to your PC. And not only for one camera, but you can create
profiles for more than one camera, or different profiles for one camera. Before the pictures are copied you may specify the name of the
folder in which your pictures will be copied. The camera profile defines a base folder, the pictures will be copied into subfolders of that
base folder. These subfolders will be named after the date the picture was taken. You can specify whether the date will include the year, month
and day (yyyymmdd) or only the month and day (mmdd). Furthermore you can also define whether all copied pictures are stored in the same folder (named after the
date of the first picture), in the same folder for pictures takes on consecutive dates, or each date in its own folder. You can also specify
that you want to set your own defined name each time a folder is created. Another feature is to preview the images before they are copied, this will also give you
the opportunity to rotate them, or specify auto rotate if your camera is equipped with an orientation sensor. The rotate of the image will take place during the
copy from the camera to the PC. Previewing the image can be via the thumbnail tab but also via a large preview window that will also display a histogram
of the image and some, user selectable, exif info. With this info you can make a quick decision whether a picture must be copied to the PC or can be
deleted because the image quality is too bad.
Besides copying, PhotoCopy is also able to backup your copied pictures to a backup location. All files copied since previous backup and
also files and folders you may have added beside the copied files will be backed-up. To remember you to make a backup, backup warning levels
can be specified. When one or both of these levels is reached a non-intrusive warning message will be displayed at the bottom of the screen.
You may define levels for the number of days since previous backup and when the number of files that are copied, but not yet backed-up, has reached a
given amount.
PhotoCopy will of course remember which files you've copied last or backed-up last and continues from there on the next time you
start PhotoCopy. Optionally you may reset the date and time of the last copied file.
To use previously copied images from one or more profiles on a website or in a photoalbum you may define a so-called 'QuickPick'. With a QuickPick you can fastly
select pictures, change their order, resize and/or rename them. it is also possible to fine rotate or crop the images or to perform some simple image adjusments
like changing the brightness or contrast. The pictures will be copied to a new folder.
Screenshots
Main screen of the PhotoCopy program displaying the available camera profiles and the settings of the currently selected profile.
Downloads
Click the icon or link below to download the MSI file for the PhotoCopy program. After downloading the file to your PC doubleclick the installed MSI file and the setup program will be launched. For the program to run correctly make sure you have the Microsoft .Net Framework installed (version 3.5 or higher).
In case you have any remarks, comments or questions or if you want to report a bug or if you have a feature request, please send an email to the webmaster.
Revision History
| Version# | Date | Description |
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| 5.7.0 | 2023-01-15 |
- Added profile option to ignore certain image types
- Added profile linking of last date and time. Now one camera can be used for multiple profiles and date and time of last copied file can be set also for other profiles for same camera
- Added option to not ask for a name when files are copied when a name was already set before
- Copy options are now per profile instead of global for all profiles
- In QuickPick images a blue dot is visible when an image was already used in the QuickPick
- Added QuickPick option to copy an image to the Windows Clipboard
- Added QuickPick option to select/deselect images from Multi View
- Fixed several other issues
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| 5.6.0 | 2021-05-16 |
- Added Multi View window to view and compare max 4 images for preview and QuickPicks
- Support for user defined file extensions for camera profiles
- Added option to create a new folder when browsing for QuickPick FTP destination folder
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| 5.5.0 | 2021-02-06 |
- Added option to also preview videos
- Added prev/next folder buttons in QuickPick
- Improved FTP resume in case of instable connections
- Added option to use EXIF timestamp for QuickPick selection instead of file timestamps
- Also update EXIF timestamps of photos in a case a clock offset is defined
- Add option to have max five preferred texts for image descriptions in QuickPicks
- Fixed some issues with backup and different DLL versions
|
| 5.4.0 | 2020-01-02 |
- Added upload to an FTP server for QuickPicks
- Fixed several other issues.
|
| 5.3.0 | 2019-07-28 |
- No major changes, but a lot of smaller changes
- Added list of recently used non-profile folders for QuickPick
- Fixed bug: When the destination folder of a profile used in a QuickPick is changed, the QuickPick will now keep on using the original destination folder
- Conversion of text into HTML entities is now defined by a format character in the Clipboard definition instead of a checkbox in the description dialog
- Fixed several other issues.
|
| 5.2.0 | 2018-04-02 |
- Also show backup information and enable Refresh button for linked profiles
- Added easy entry of diacritical characters for QuickPick image description and added option to convert them to HTML entities.
- Fixed bug where PhotoCopy crashed when a previously edited image in QuickPick was edited again after being copied.
- Fixed several other issues.
|
| 5.1.0 | 2017-10-26 |
- Immediately set min or max zoomlevel by clicking far left or right of zoom slider.
- Show zoom region info in window header for large preview and large QuickPick view.
- Zoomed in window can also be moved with mouse and keyboard ALT-key pressed next to left mouse button.
- Histogram can show R, B and G channels in same histogram.
- Histogram region can be selected instead of only one level.
- Update screenshots in HELP and on website to Windows 10 screenshots.
- Fixed several minor issues.
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| 5.0.0 | 2016-04-24 |
- Added image adjustments for QuickPicks like changing brightness and contrast and so
- Added extra thumbnail creation for QuickPicks
- Thumbnails are now loaded in the background for large preview and thumbnail preview for faster response.
- Histogram can now also show separate R, G and B channels and combined RGB next to intensity.
- Added SmartHistory for smart selection of foldernames during image copy.
- Backup now uses the Archive attribute to determine whether a file must be backed-up or not.
- Fixed several minor issues.
|
| 4.1.0 | 2015-01-11 |
- Added more Exif tags and option to hide unavailable tags.
- Added tooltips on a number of windows.
- Fixed issue with backup of linked profiles causing some files not to be backed-up.
- Fixed issue with creating new profiles and no other profiles are available to link to.
- Fixed several other minor issues.
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| 4.0.0 | 2014-07-19 |
- Added option to zoom-in into images during preview and QuickPick image selection.
- Within a QuickPick images can now also be fine rotated and the horizon can be straightened.
- Within a QuickPick images can be cropped.
- The Ask foldername dialog will now remember entered names between PhotoCopy sessions.
- Fixed some minor issues
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| 3.2.0 | 2012-12-16 |
- Added QuickPick templates, so often used settings for e.g. a photobook or webpage can be saved and easily re-used later for another QuickPick
- Added option to display QuickPick images by foldername next to by date.
- Added automatic backup drive detection
- Fixed some minor issues
|
| 3.1.0 | 2011-11-10 |
- Added overview with small thumbnails in large preview screen
- Changed a few minor things.
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| 3.0.0 | 2011-08-14 |
- Added QuickPicks, a feature to fastly select, re-order, resize and rename formerly copied images for use on a website or photoalbum.
- Added option to not rotate images during the copy process from camera to PC
- Fixed some issues with backup
|
| 2.3.0 | 2011-03-27 |
- Added window with overview of all thumbnails. Thumbnails can be quickly selected based on date or manually. Selected thumbnails can be deleted, rotated, etc.
- Added option to define a timeoffset to the timestamp of the images when they are copied
- Added autodetect option for source folder in case camera is not each time attached to same USB port / drive name
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| 2.2.0 | 2011-01-08 |
- Added large preview window, next to the preview thumbnail, with histogram and exif tag info
- Position and sizes of most windows are now remembered between PhotoCopy sessions
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| 2.1.1 | 2010-12-18 |
- Fixed bug that caused crash when no types were defined for a new profile
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| 2.1.0 | 2010-11-22 |
- Added creation of subfolders for different filetypes (e.g. raw files and movies)
- Increased speed for loading thumbnails in preview tab by loading EXIF thumbnail
- Added selection of date and time for last copied file when existing profile is edited
- Added update checker, an infobox is displayed when a new version of PhotoCopy is available
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| 2.0.0 | 2010-09-28 |
- Added a preview tab to preview images before they are copied
- Added the option to rotate the images or to auto-rotate them based on EXIF information
- Added the option to mark images that they should not be copied (deleted)
- Added confirmation box when profile is removed
- Redesigned the 'Ask Foldername' form
- Fixed some issues with copy and backup
- Known issue: When images are rotated during copy, either due to a manual rotate or an auto-rotate, some Exif data will be lost or corrupted. This is a known issue of the Microsoft .Net framework. When images are copied without rotation no Exif data will be lost.
- Known issue 2: For some camera models the thumbnail image will not be rotated together with the large image.
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| 1.3.0 | 2010-04-05 |
- Added a Refresh button to update number of files to backup
- Added the possibility to define a toplevel folder to e.g. keep all your vacation pictures together
- Re-ordered some settings in the copy and backup tab
- Fixed some minor bugs
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| 1.2.1 | 2010-03-24 |
- Internal redesign of the program to prepare for future features
- Fixed some minor bugs
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| 1.2.0 | 2009-11-30 |
- Add history list for 'Enter folder name' dialog
- Some minor cosmetic changes
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| 1.1.0 | 2009-11-26 |
- Added image preview in the 'Enter directory name' dialog
- Added option to reset backup date during profile editing
- Changed the layout of profile add/edit form
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| 1.0.0 | 2009-06-23 |
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Wishlist
Below an overview of options and features I plan to add to this application in coming releases.
- Geotagging to add location info to photos from GPX data for cameras that don't have this
- Perspective correction
