Database program to Organize Digital Photographs

liparig

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11 Oct 2005 - 10:15 AM

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Can anyone recommend a database type program to organize my digital photography, I have thousands of pictures on both my computer and CD's but often find it hard to find the picture I am looking for. I need a program that I can enter something like "California" and I will see all the thumnails of california picture I took and tell me where they are ocated on my computer or on a CD (CD #123 etc)

So far I found IMatch has anyone used this ? What do you think?

Thank you
Joe

loweskid

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11 Oct 2005 - 10:30 AM

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iMatch will do exactly what you want. You have assign categories first, which can be a bit tedious, but I did all mine in a few evenings (about 5000 images). You can also mix categories, so if you have hundreds of images assigned to 'California' and hundreds more of 'sunsets' you can search on 'california+sunsets' and it will list just those sunsets taken in California.

I tried a few database programs (but not them all of course) when I was trying to decide which to use and iMatch was the only one I found which filled all my criteria, which included being able to read Paint Shop Pro files.

liparig

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11 Oct 2005 - 10:39 AM

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I am using Windows XP operting System.

Thank for the responses so far I am going to evaluate all the programs suggested
thank you
Joe

philwig

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11 Oct 2005 - 11:59 AM

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I use CS2 to do that. Manages raw files, IPTC support, all that stuff. I don't think it's got explicit support for "offline volumes" (eg cds), so it doesn't meet your requirement there.

You might want to check the storage costs of hard disks these days though; I gave up on CDs once the price of hard drives for very large amounts of data became reasonable.

Sabreur

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11 Oct 2005 - 12:43 PM

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Just checked the help files in PS Elements, and that can deal with CDs/DVDs as you want it to. It reads the CD, create thumbnails of the images and then you assign a name to the CD. When you want to edit a photo, it asks for the specific CD. (I think that most of the functionality from PhotoAlbum was built into Elements when version 3 was released)

I would imagine that CS2 can do the same thing.

deviant

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11 Oct 2005 - 2:24 PM

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Extensis Portfollio does the lot. Keeps it all in very fast database too. Syncs folders, makes web pages, catalogues disks, CD's DVD's. Keywords and searches are doddle also. You name it it does it when it comes to cataloging.