I hope you find Pictures 1.0 useful and fun.
I’m a small-scale independent developer in Australia, and your feedback and support
will help me built better products. So if you have
any ideas or improvements, please e-mail me by tapping Contact within the app or e-mailing
If you upgrade to the full paid version, you’ll get rid of the ads and
unlock all current and future features including: full-screen viewing and landscape mode, full smart albums, auto-tags based on location and date, more colour badges, Facebook & Flickr upload, and similar image search.
– James
Features
A better way to view your iPhone Camera Roll and Photo Libraries.
Saves better quality photographs than Apple’s Camera app.
Latest library albums synchronised with iPhoto/iTunes.
See your most recent photos at the top of the list.
Auto-rotate landscape and portrait photos to fill the screen.
Swipe along your album through portrait and landscape axes.
Smart Albums based on time, GPS location, colour badge or tag.
Auto-tagging based on date, current GPS location, or search by address.
Seven built-in colour badges for organising your photos.
Complete freedom to tag images with your favourite keywords.
Name your photos for search and export.
Search for photos by name, date, month or year.
Tick multiple photos to apply badges, tags, archive or export as a group.
Find duplicates & similar images.
Upload to Facebook and Flickr, one-by-one or in batches.
Built-in FAQs.
In-app upgrade from the free version to the full version.
Upload tags, geo location, and privacy options to Flickr.
Automatically scale down large images when sending over cellular data.
View comprehensive photo including date & time, megapixels, file size, and aspect ratio.
List of photos taken nearby your current GPS location.
View geo-tagged photos on a world map.
View photos based on their proximity to any other geo-tagged photo.
Remembers your gallery scroll position.
View thumbnails, filenames, date and file size at-a-glance.
View the image count, latest date, and total kilobytes of each album.
Create calendar events based on photo dates.
Archive and unarchive your photos.
Auto-scale large images to fit.
Zoom and pan on large images.
View full-screen (tap/hold).
View small images at their natural size (unscaled).
Double-tap to zoom into individual pixels (full resolution – double-tap or two-finger tap).
Export photos and videos to other iPhone apps (doesn’t require iPhoto).
Send feedback to the app’s developer with in-app contact.
Questions & Answers
What does the progress bar mean?
Pictures synchronises with your camera roll and iPhoto libraries.
New images will appear once the sync is complete.
Can Pictures work with videos?
Yes, everything you can do with pictures you can also do with videos.
However, Pictures only shows you the ‘key frame’ from your videos—it doesn’t play them.
You can play videos using Open With App or Apple’s Photos app.
Are images shown in any particular order?
Yes, albums are sorted in reverse chronological order (your latest images are shown at the top and your oldest images are shown at the bottom).
For smart albums like Nearby and Similar Images, items are sorted in order of best match.
Can I re-order my images or sort by name?
No, the sort order is determined automatically.
How do I put pictures into albums?
You can use Tags to make smart albums in Pictures. Or to make Library Albums, you’ll need to use iPhoto.
When Pictures is showing images on your device, simply tap the Tags button to add a tag.
Tagged images will immediately appear in the smart Tag Albums on your device.
Tagged pictures are not removed from your Camera Roll and there is no need for you to synchronise with iTunes or iPhoto.
However, tag albums only appear in Pictures and are not shared with other apps.
Alternatively, you can use iPhoto to create photo albums and then copy your pictures into them.
You can also use iPhoto to move photos from your Camera Roll into albums.
Albums will appear in the Library section of Pictures after syncing with iPhoto.
You must use iPhoto because Apple does’t provide a way for Pictures to do directly it on your device.
What does the Invert button do?
In Library Albums, the Invert button sorts images in forwards chronological order (oldest images at the top).
In Smart Albums, the Invert button reverses the meaning of the album, meaning that all matching images are hidden and all non-matching images are shown. For instance, the album showing all ‘Red’ badges would instead show all ‘Non-Red’ badges.
How is “Similar Images” supposed to work?
Similar Images is meant to detect exact duplicates, and has the capability to show certain similar images too.
The similarity is based on patterns of light and dark in your images.
While this works for most images, images with text or speckles may fail to match.
Sometimes it doesn't detect HDR images due to the change in light and dark contrast caused by the HDR process.
Nevertheless, it’s fun to play with!
How do I delete images?
Apple does not allow apps to delete any items from the Camera Roll or Libraries.
Instead, you can Archive pictures or delete them using Apple’s app or iPhoto.
What ‘Hidden Features’ are available in Pictures?
In Albums
Badges & Filename: To add a colour badge or edit the filename of a picture in the album list, hold down on it until the editing screen appears. Alternatively, or to edit multiple pictures at once, click Edit and tick the images to edit. Then tap Tags.
Search by Name: When viewing a list of album contents, pull down on the list to reveal the search field.
Search by Date: When you search, you can search by dates like “3/04/2010”, “2010-12-19”, “Aug 2010” or “October”.
In Image View
Export image or Upload to Facebook & Flickr: when viewing an image, click on the organiser icon.
In Image Info
Nearby Images: To find images that are nearby to the current image: tap the Info button, tap Location, and tap on the disclosure arrow as shown on the map.
Megapixels, orientation and aspect ratio: Tap on Size for more information.
How do I copy or migrate my pictures to another device?
Using iPhoto/iTunes.
A future version of Pictures will be migrate your labels, tags, filenames and auto-tags to another device (e.g., from an iPhone 3GS to an iPhone 4).
What features doesn’ Pictures have?
Pictures cannot delete your photos, set as wallpaper, send as MMS, assign to contact, or take videos.
There is currently no slideshow feature.
Contact me about the features you would most like to see in the future.
Credits
Pictures uses the following third-party libraries:
The photographs used in screenshots came from freephotos.se.
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