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Cyme Adds Cross-App Annotations to Peakto
14 March 2023
Cyme has released Peakto 1.5 with borderless annotation, which can apply various attributes to images regardless of which photo catalog they are in. Supported annotation types include flags, favorites, colors, ratings, title and some other basic text fields.
"Our photos are scattered in different folders, software and formats," notes Matthieu Kopp, co-founder of Cyme. "We created Peakto to put photographers back in control and allow them to find, sort and create albums from all their images. This new borderless photo annotation feature is a must-have for good organization and consolidates Peakto's status as a centerpiece from which to explore, find organize, select and export its photos."
HIGHLIGHTS
New features in this release include:
- Annotations are now enabled in Grid view, Detail view and in the inspector.
- Supported annotation types include: flags, favorites, colors, ratings, title and some other basic text fields (Dublin Core).
- New annotation menu items let you annotate multiple versions at once for flags, favorites and ratings.
- Full undo support.
- Peakto and original annotations are always accessible from the inspector.
- Added a quick access to the selected image file name and enclosing folder.
- Added the ability to sort by rating, color tag and picked flag.
- Added the ability to synchronize a specific representation/instant.
- Added the ability to create smart albums based on file name, extension and path.
- This version of Peakto is now sandboxed for enhanced compatibility with Ventura 13.2 and above. Access to various parts of your folder hierarchy is handled through the explicit grant of access rights.
Improvements in this release include:
- The layout of the inspector is much clearer. Various UI refinements.
- Improved grid behaviour. The transition between grid displays makes more use of animations for fluidity.
Fixes include:
- CaptureOne Sessions are now correctly synchronized when you add images in the Capture folder or favorites.
- CaptureOne catalog and sessions show a more reliable synchronization indicator.
- Hidden images in Apple Photos catalogs are no longer displayed.
- Fixed various crash situations.
- Fixed various smaller bugs.
- Fixed an issue with drag and drop in the main view that could hang the app.
- Fixed an issue where the toolbar could disappear.
- Fixed an issue where a folder ingestion would not complete properly.
- Fixed an issue where invoking the detail view could open on a blank image.
PRICE, AVAILABILITY
Peakto is available by subscription or one-time purchase for macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later on Cyme.io and on the Mac App Store. Peakto can be tested for free for 15 days with no credit card required on Cyme.io. It is available on a monthly plan for $9.99/month; a yearly plan for $99/year; or for one-time purchase for $189.
Cross-app Photo Annotation Made Possible with Peakto
Cyme adds annotation features to Peakto, the AI-powered photo meta-cataloger for macOS. Thanks to its wide compatibility -- Lightroom, Luminar AI/Neo, Capture One and Apple Photos -- Peakto allows photographers to annotate from the same interface thousands of images belonging to different photo editing software and different folders. This borderless annotation, which can be applied to hundreds of photo catalogs, complements Peakto's automatic AI annotation that effortlessly assigns keywords and categories to images.
Matthieu Kopp, co-founder of Cyme: "Our photos are scattered in different folders, software and formats. We created Peakto to put photographers back in control and allow them to find, sort and create albums from ALL their images. This new borderless photo annotation feature is a must-have for good organization and consolidates Peakto's status as a centerpiece from which to explore, find organize, select and export its photos."
Annotate from visual and borderless libraries
Thanks to a meta-cataloger like Peakto, annotating huge numbers of photos becomes easy and fun. Instead of searching for each image, Peakto is now the only interface that brings all the photos together. From the grid view and thanks to keyboard shortcuts, the photographer quickly navigates from image to image and simply assigns stars, colors, favorites or validation/rejection flags, regardless of the folder where the photos are stored or the software in which they are edited.
Peakto also recovers the annotations present in the original catalog and allows users to add new ones such as title, caption, author's name, rights of use and legal mentions. Because Peakto is an AI-enhanced photo organizer, it offers photographers two options to find a specific shot or make image selections: (1) keywords describing the image content automatically assigned by the AI and (2) the photographer's personal notes. Peakto simplifies the sharing of the best images from a shoot, the creation of a thematic album or the selection of visuals for a book or portfolio.
About Peakto
Peakto is a meta-cataloger that gathers in a single interface all of a photographer's photos, thanks to its compatibility with many photo editing software (Apple Photos, Lightroom Classic, Luminar AI/Neo, Capture One, Aperture, iView Media), with folders and photo files and now with Instagram accounts.
Peakto is designed to be the control tower that gives photographers a comprehensive view of their photos and provides tools to manage, analyze, automatically sort and create multi-sourced albums. Respectful of file sizes and photographers' organization, Peakto does not create copies or move originals. It accesses high-resolution previews to provide an always up-to-date, fluid and elegant workspace.
Price and availability
Peakto is a software for macOS, available by subscription or one-time purchase on Cyme.io and on the Mac App Store. Peakto can be tested for free for 15 days (no credit card required on Cyme.io). Peakto is available on a monthly plan at $9.99/month; a yearly plan at $99/year; or for one-time purchase of $189.
Configuration
Optimized for M1, Peakto requires macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later.