#Introduction --- Enjoy browsing photos as you walk down the street.

In recent couple of years, small digital cameras and camera-equipped cell-phones have become everyday things more than ever before. As the number of photos increase day by day, how are you organizing and editing those photos?

PhotoWalker is the software to link photos spatially and see them as you walk through in their space. Generally a camera is the equipment with which you take a shot of interesting scenes or things. If the shots are linked one another, the network of the photos will be constructed. This construction reminds you of the space where you took those photos.

Along with the popularization of the Internet, the environment of WWW (World Wide Web) has been spreading so that home pages are linked one another. The WWW is said to be a huge 'network of documents.' Since PhotoWalker produces a virtual space by linking personal photos, it can be said that PhotoWalker produces a 'network of photos.'

As you walk down the street, you cut out the space into fragments and you record them as photos. Won't you construct another world by linking those photos? You will reproduce your experience, as well as the records, from the photos.

The fundamental editing method is only to enclose common things or places on a pair of photos by rectangles and link them. This technique reconstructs a real world in a virtual space. Seeing is believing. Why don't you visit the site for a sample content. If you want to see more, please jump to this site.

Not to worry if you cannot find common things or places. A link may be set between any related things and places. Tracing the links one after another will take you to just the world apart, which will also recollect your memory.

In art world, there is a technique called 'photo collage', which makes a picture by sticking pieces of photos on a 2-dimensional canvas. On this point of view, PhotoWalker creates a space by linking photos on a 3-dimensional canvas. It is up to you to make the final decision of how you use PhotoWalker. You may keep a diary or you may design artistic works.

PhotoWalker also enables you to publish your works on the Web. It will be a good way to transmit your experience and your space to the world. If someone sees your work, it will be the beginning of a new communication.

As you get familiar with PhotoWalker, you will surely be always sensitive about surrounding space and scenery. Yes, we want you to take a lot of photos as you walk down the street. Keep carrying your digital camera and take shots of what you see naturally as you breathe. If you use PhotoWalker to set links between those photos, separate photos will be coordinated so that a unique story will be born. And in the end, you will enjoy or make others enjoy browsing photos as you/they walk down the street.

We wish PhotoWalker would discover new entertainment with photos and develop new technique to edit photos.

April, 2003