picurl helps you managing your distributed photo collections and also tries to solve common problems associated with photo tagging. This introductory presentation explains the idea behind picurl and was held at the Linuxwochen Linz in June 2008.

1. How it began
Flickr.com looks great!
Let's upload the photos from
the trip to Argentina“

2. How it began
Wow! Your Argentine pics
on flickr.com are gorgeous!
But do you have this one
in better resolution?
How do I find the
hi­res version?

3. dilemma #1: one photo, many versions
● share: 1024x768 px JPEG on flickr.com
● edit: hi-res PSD/TIFF on your harddisk
● backup: the same on a DVD
● distribute: modified TIFF for your client on
your FTP
but why this mess?
how do we keep track of all versions?