BreezeBrowser - XML templates

With the advent of digital photography many new types of application sprang up to support workflow. Probably the most prevalent was the Image Browser - in my view an invaluable tool.  This allows you to quickly view, sort, discard you images and probably perform some other digital management tasks as well. For me it is the first step in the workflow. It's your light table. Most camera vendors provided very poor support in this area, and it has been left to third parties to define the market. Some heavyweight applications such as Photoshop have tried to incorporate the feature, but PS Filebrowser, and later Bridge have been laughable in my opinion. Adobe Lightroom may change this - wait and see.

For my part I have used a product called BreezeBrowser for a few years now. I'm not going to enter into a comparison of products here. Suffice to say that BB does exactly what I want at this point in the worklflow. It is very fast at producing previews, seems to be able to read any new RAW format effortlessly, and has good support for IPTC editing. It also has an excellent Raw converter.

BB also has a customisable interface for producing HTML galleries. This is not unusual - many photo applications do this, but BB makes it very easy and imposes no constraints. I decided to leverage this function and rather than producing ready made HTML pages, I could see the use for generating the information in XML format where it could be reused as part of dynamically generated applications, for online galleries or repurposing as PDF for example.

You can download the templates I created for this (GNU/GPL license). You will need to know a bit about Breezebrowser, XML and some kind of programming technology to make the most of them

Download XML templates

Also check out the Breezebrowser home page