Hide Photos 1.4

Hide Photos 1.4 offers you a useful tool which can help you to hide your photos from public if you wish.

As you know, every digital photographer has pictures not intended for public view. Hide for-your-eyes-only photos in a password-protected secure container!

Why is this better than a password-protected ZIP or RAR archive? Hide Photos is so much more convenient, fast and secure than any packer that theres really no comparison! Hide Photos stores protected
images in an encrypted secure container that is easily accessible with an Explorer-like interface. It displays full-color thumbnail previews of the protected pictures, and conveniently organizes your
collection with tags and comments for quick search.

Exactly how secure is the protection? Hide Photos employs the industry-standard AES encryption with 256-bit keys. Theres hardly anything in the world to better protect your digital pictures! If you use an encrypted ZIP or RAR archive, every time you need to access a picture it will be extracted from the archive and stored temporarily on your hard disk, leaving the image un-encrypted. Hide Photos never extracts anything onto the hard disk, and leaves absolutely no traces both while youre working with the image and after youve finished.

Theres a downside to security. If you forget your password, no one, but no one will be able to help you recover your protected pictures. Hide Photos is well aware of the issue, and allows you to specify a password hint to give you and only you an idea about the password. Just make sure not to use a hint thats too trivial to protect your passwords from easy guessing!

Hide Photos is convenient and secure, but what about its ease of use? It shines in this department, too! You can add or extract pictures by dragging and dropping single images or entire folders from Windows Explorer, or select pictures to protect from within the Explorer-like interface.

Protect your digital pictures against the curious eye and make them impossible to access without your authorization with Hide Photos!

Some Technical Details

All of your photos are placed in an encrypted container (Named "storage" in the program). It is a file on your hard drive with the .HPG extension. A Strong AES (256 bit) algorithm is used for encryption and SHA is used for hashing. The photo search function looks for the given substring in photo file name, photo tags, and photo comments (if it is not encrypted or has been decrypted with the current password). You can save a backup copy of your encrypted storage at any time and burn it on CD or DVD.

Major Features:

1. Photo browser with Explorer-like interface.
2. Built-in full screen photo viewer
3. Image metadata displaying (EXIF details, image color format, resolution, etc.)
4. Quality slide show program with the ability to select a random transition from hundreds of effects
5. Write your own description and assign text tags for each photo. Encrypt your comments (Optional). You will need to enter the correct password in order to search for photos by their description.
6. Powerful photo search function
7. Easy to add new photos. Add photos as a group from any drive, add entire folders with photos, or just drag and drop your photos into the folder of your choice!
8. Multilingual user interface. Currently Hide Photos ™ is available in English, Dutch, German, Korean, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese(Brazilian), Spanish and Russian languages
9. Hide Photos ™ supports a majority of image file formats, including RAW professional photo format
10. Unlimited amount of folders, and an unlimited amount of photos in one folder
11. Easy to use: Just drag and drop your private pictures to Hide Photos ™, and it will keep them secure.
    

Enhancements:

1. added: moving and copying images within the storage
2. fixed: slow multi image selection
3. fixed: bug with extraction encrypted images
4. fixed: several minor issues

 Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/Vista

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