Currently the program is still under development and within short periods new versions will be made available at this place.

Calydos: What's it all about?
Owners of a digital camera experience a rapid growth of the number of image-files on their computers. From a certain point on it becomes more and more difficult to find an image from some time ago. You can browse through your hard disk, but in many cases the images have file names from which you can guess nothing. So by simply looking at your hard disk you cannot tell what content is in a file or - worse - you have no chance at all to find a certain image where the only thing you know is - e.g. - that there is your dog playing around with your little daughter, when she was three years old, which is quite some years ago.

So the answer is as clear as the lens from a Leica-camera:
You need an Image Database!
Calydos - Features:

    * Store images in database and retrieve by use of search-criteria
    * Image-Galery to manage series of images that belong together
    * Analysis-Report of EXIF-data which makes comparison of images and their exposure-parameters easier

	
Calydos is the first 'non-destructive' image database for OS/2 and eCS. That means, your images are 'stored' in the database without being modified or touched in any way themselves. To be exact, being 'stored' means: only references to the image-file are stored in the database.

Furthermore, that means that you must not rename or move an image file to another directory once it has been processed by Calydos ('stored' in the database), except by means of Cayldos' built-in features.

The screen shot on the right is a sample of how an image is given 'criteria' (properties) and being stored into the database (in order to see the full size of the screen-shot use the 'view image'-function of your browser).

In addition you can see the context-menu over the preview-image. Speaking of context-menus: The secret of 'How-To-Use' the Calydos-program is hidden in lots of context-menus, so the (almost) only thing to know is using your right mouse button over any of the GUI-objects. 	

More Features:

    * The program has one GUI but two modes: The Insert-mode for getting the images into the database and the Query-mode for finding, listing and exporting images.
    * Calydos is not able to edit an image-file in any way, however you can invoke your own favourite image-editor / -viewer-program directly from the Calydos-GUI.
    * Calydos cannot edit, but display an image in what we call a 'Preview-Window', which has a (configurable) maximum x,y-size and is scalable.
    * Galery-Feature: You can collect any number of images from the database into a 'Galery', which is a rectangle of thumbnails with ability of direct invocation of your favourite image-editor. A galery is configurable in some aspects, it can be given a name and be saved.
    * Display of Exif-data (if present). For known camera-types the focal length is converted to the 35mm-equivalent. Known camera-types are stored in the file 'cams.txt', which may be extended by th user.
    * Calydos uses a special 'File-Browser' in order to navigate through the drives of your computer and to identify image-files. You can specify a filter to restrict the view of the File-Browser to certain file-types (such as jpg, tiff, raw etc.). Furthermore you can define single drives / directories as 'Image Domains'.
      The items shown by the File-Browser are drives, directories and image-files. Each of these types possess their own special context-menu.