File management system facilitating the organization of content by using visualizations of the organizational state augmented by a configurable workflow

An image management system that facilitates a user to process content from database filing systems into organized collections by tagging, comprising:

• a content management utility configured to recognize and retrieve image files from folder-based content and generate one or more collections according to a user's directions, wherein the content management utility parses the file header of each image file without decoding the image data of the image file.
• an image review utility coupled with a display utility which facilitates user organization of the content of one or more collections using a user input rating, wherein the image review utility facilitates an organizational workflow wherein one or more images from the collection are displayed at the same time, the images are evaluated with preferred images receiving a preferable rating, one or more remaining images from the collection are displayed and evaluated with preferred images receiving a preferable rating until all the images in the collection have been evaluated, a smaller set of preferably rated images are displayed and further evaluated and this proceeds repeatedly until a user defined stopping point is reached, wherein the image review utility displays a single image of an organized collection to represent said organized collection, and a plurality of fractional photos to represent unorganized collections;
• a tagging utility configured to enable the user to view and edit the metadata tag of each file, and add one or a plurality of metadata tags generated by user's input thereto, wherein the tagging utility adds metadata tags preferably rated images based on the preferable rating or other user input;
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• an image analyzer capable of processing the image data and identifying photograph characteristics.