The Phota program was originally developed to replicate photo albums as close as possible on a computer screen. In truth though, an interactive Photo Album has the potential to do much more than any physical photo album, and Phota has evolved to become a fairly full-featured image display and management application. Audio and video sequences can also be incorporated into Phota albums.
The primary emphasis of Phota is to exhibit a collection of photographs in the most attractive way, and to provide flexible tools for quickly and easily creating such albums. It is an ideal application for people with digital cameras, who wish to immediately enjoy their uploaded images, without spending much time and effort in creating and formatting albums.
The features offered by Phota are summarized below:
The Gallery feature exhibits a collection of photos in dynamic 3D perspectives. Explore can be activated to automatically stroll through a Gallery, pausing before each image to admire it, and then on to the next photo, until a door to the Next Gallery is reached and passed through.
A Navigation Bar contains most of the controls needed for the basic operation of Phota. Creating an Album is very simple, with screens that guide you through the process. Photos on album pages can be clicked to display full-screen images. Left and right arrow keys can then be used to scan Back and Forth through full-screen photos. Click again to return to album page display mode.
A Mass Load Photos option allows images from one or more directories to be added to an album very quickly, either by selected groups or all at once. Photo Description items can optionally be automatically filled in with appropriate IPTC and/or EXIF fields. Album pages can also be easily copied from the same album or merged from other Phota Albums with the Copy Album Pages feature.
