Auto Folder Watch for Newly Added Photos

Automate your photo editing workflow with a consistent process by creating hot-folders with associated custom scripts that will be applied only to the newly added or modified images.

BatchPhoto Enterprise takes [batch editing] one step further by completely automating the process. All you need to do is create a "hot folder" for the program to monitor. When added to one of these folders, either on your computer, network or an FTP site, BatchPhoto will automatically apply your specified edits.
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Bits&Coffee BatchPhoto Enterprise is a Windows® & Mac® OS X software program that can monitor an unlimited number of folders on your computer, network or sites (through FTP) for newly added or modified images, and for each monitored folder apply a custom set of edits.

BatchPhoto Enterprise works by matching each monitored folder (hot-folder) with a custom defined set of edits (a script) and by constantly scanning the folders for newly added or modified images. The program will work silently in the background and can start automatically with your computer.

Imagine transferring a few hundred RAW images from your DSLR digital camera to a hot folder and in a few minutes having all those images automatically resized, rotated, watermarked with a logo, renamed, converted to TIFF and uploaded to a FTP account or to Facebook. All of this without you having to make a single click!

All of BatchPhoto's features can be used for editing images from monitored folders. This is not an exhaustive list:

  • Change image size automatically since BatchPhoto can make the difference between portrait and landscape photos and resize accordingly;
  • Automatically rotate photos based on the information embedded by digital cameras with orientation sensors (most modern cameras);
  • Crop hundreds of images to custom dimensions just by dropping them into the monitored folder;
  • Automatically Watermark photos dropped in the hotfolder with either text or logos;
  • Add multi-line Text Comments or imprint the original Date/Time as recorded by digital cameras in the EXIF metadata record;
  • Hot-folder RAW converter, with support for almost all RAW image formats from camera vendors, like Canon, Sony, Nikon, Olympus, Fuji, Kodak, Pentax, and more;
  • Read and convert to 170+ image formats, including: JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PDF, GIF, BMP, TGA, PSD, JP2, and more;
  • Create PDF documents from the images dropped into the monitored folder or convert PDF files to multiple images;
  • Rename images with a powerful customization tool that allows the use of keywords and search & replace in filenames;
  • Directly upload to FTP, or to social networks like Facebook and Picasa;
  • Apply special effects like: Black & White, Sepia, Charcoal, Borders, Shadows, Polaroid frames, and more;
  • Decorate photos with beautifully designed Grunge, Vintate, or Picture frames;
  • Apply custom touch-ups like: Auto Contrast, Auto Gamma, Levels, Sharpen, Reduce Noise, and more.

You can download and test BatchPhoto Enterprise for free. This is the fully-featured version with an watermark applied on the processed images.

Note: BatchPhoto works on Windows® 8, 7, Vista, and XP as well as Mac® OS X Mountain Lion (10.8), Lion (10.7) and Snow Leopard (10.6).

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