Searching
Starting a search
To initiate a search, you can either press "Search" in the main sidebar, or you can hit Ctrl-F anywhere. When you enter values in the textfields, you can separate multiple values using a comma (,) between each word. Any spaces before or after this comma are ignored, so you may add as many as you wish.
Name / comment
These fields accept partial words. To search for a specific image, you can enter part of its name in the Name textfield. If you enter aki, it would find any images containing aki (eg. seaking).
Rating / resolution
These are numerical fields, thus they allow the use of < and > signs. If you are looking for a 1920x1200 image, you can enter that exact value in the Resolution textfield. You could also enter >1280x800, <2560x1600 which would find all images between those two resolutions. The same goes for the rating-field.
Tags
The tagfields only accept exact word-matches, so king would only match King and not Seaking. Also, the tagfields allow the use of boolean operators. If you enter a keyword with no operator in front of it, pImgDB will append the operator selected next to Op. fallback.
The search operators
* The asterisk means and. If this is added in front of a word, the specified tagtype MUST contain the keyword entered. If an image contains the keyword, it will be added to the search results. If the image contains one keyword you've entered, but it does not contain the keyword with the and operator, it will be removed from the search results again.
+ The plus sign would be or. If the image contains an or-keyword, it will be added to the results as long as it contains that keyword. If the tagtype does not contain an or-keyword, nothing will happen. However, even though an image is added to the search results due to an or-keyword, it might be removed again due to the lack of an and-keyword (see the And keyword above).
- The minus operator acts as not. If the image contains a not-keyword it will be removed from the search results.