Smart media management.

With Retrieva you can locate an image or document that you need right away, whether it's stored locally on your machine or in some other remote location. Browse through thumbnail previews of your images and other media - Retrieva will even create thumbnails for music files by automatically downloading album artwork from Amazon's enormous online artwork database - or use Retrieva's powerful search facility to pinpoint just the file you need.

Clever categories.

Retrieva automatically assigns your media to categories whenever you add your files to the system, making it easier than ever to find and manage your digital assets. Using an intelligent parser, Retrieva creates media categories on the fly based on what kinds of files they are, where they are located, and any naming conventions you've adopted for them. For example, let's say you drop a folder full of folders, each filled with images on to Retrieva. You'll be able to find your images in Retrieva because a category for each of the folder names will have been created and images assigned to these categories automatically. Retrieva doesn't stop here though. Retrieva will notice if you've imported, say, a thousand images called newproduction_home_001.jpg through newproduction_home_999.jpg, and will have silently and swiftly created and assigned categories for newproduction and home too.

Search with clout...

Can't find the file you need? No problem. If you know even the slightest thing that sets the required asset apart from the rest, Retrieva has more than enough to go on. Retrieva's incredibly flexible search facility let's you find the files you need based upon literally dozens of criteria including Photoshop IPTC information, EXIF information, MP3 ID3 tags and many many more. Want to find a particular photo you took last week? Find it fast based on exposure time, shutter speed, f-stop, heck you can even search according to whether the flash fired or not or even the battery level at the time you took the picture. What about that Quark layout from Jim in Design? If you haven't got a clue what it was called or how big it was but vividly remember that it had ten pages, then ask Retrieva to search based on the number of pages in a Quark document.

...and then some!

How about this for a time saver though - Retrieva will search through images based on similarity. Let's say you have hundreds of thousands of images in Retrieva's database and one day you stumble across one image from a photo shoot for a fashion catalogue you're working on. You'd like to find the rest of the shots of that model wearing that outfit in a particular pose. You could trawl through the hundreds of thousands of images looking for them yourself, or you could get Retrieva to do it for you. Simply select the image then ask Retrieva to find by similarity. After adjusting the similarity threshold you'll have just the images you were looking for, regardless of file format, image dimensions, aspect ratio or color depth.