blueMarine is an open source photograph

Photograph

A photograph is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of...

 management application designed to support a digital photographer's workflow

Workflow

A workflow consists of a sequence of connected steps. It is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as work of a person, a group of persons, an organization of staff, or one or more simple or complex mechanisms. Workflow may be seen as any abstraction of real work...

. It is developed upon the NetBeans

NetBeans

NetBeans refers to both a platform framework for Java desktop applications, and an integrated development environment for developing with Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Groovy, C, C++, Scala, Clojure, and others...

 / OpenIDE platform.

Features

The blueMarine user interface is similar to that of Apple Aperture and Adobe Lightroom

Adobe Lightroom

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a photography software program developed by Adobe Systems for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, designed to assist Adobe Photoshop users in managing large quantities of digital images and doing post production work...

. It supports all the major photographic formats (JPEG

JPEG

In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality....

, PNG, TIFF) as well as many vendor-specific Raw image format

RAW image format

A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor...

s (CR2, CRW, DNG, MRW, NEF, PEF, SRF) and the Adobe proposed standard DNG

Digital Negative (file format)

Digital Negative is an open raw image format owned by Adobe used for digital photography. It was launched on September 27, 2004. The launch was accompanied by the first version of the DNG specification, plus various products including a free of charge DNG Converter utility...

.

BlueMarine can import photos from an external storage or camera and let the user to organize them freely. The user can assign tags (both preset and user-definable) and perform queries by different criteria. Photos can be organized by Galleries and Trips. blueMarine also provides support for geotagging

GeoTagging

Geotagging is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as a geotagged photograph or video, websites, SMS messages, QR Codes or RSS feeds and is a form of geospatial metadata...

 and is able to display maps with geotagged photos in an embedded viewer.

The software is expandable via a plugin system.

See also

• Adobe Bridge
  Adobe Bridge
  Adobe Bridge is an organizational software application created and released by Adobe Systems as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite, beginning with CS2. Its primary purpose is to link the parts of the Creative Suite together using an interface similar to the file browser found in previous versions...
  
  
• Adobe Lightroom
• Apple Aperture