Image Organizing Software Recommendation

EyesToTheSkies- How portable are files that have been categorised in a particular program?

Hi EyeToTheSkies, ACDSee apparently allows the categorization to be written into the image as a way of transferring collections between computers. I suspect that each program will do things slightly differently and some catagorization data would be un-retrievable in moving between programs.

I do like the ease of categorizing that ACDSee provides, a great improvement over simply storing the images in different directories.

Regards,

Or simply use the organisation features in good old Windows XPSP2. I find most of these add on tools don’t organise, so much as disorganise.

My Computer & Explorer work perfectly well enough for me.

Could I suggest you give BreezeBrowser and try (www.breezesys.com). It’s a British program that categorises images based on EXIF and IPTC data which can can alter from within the program. Because it can change this data within the image itself, the image always carries this data with it, making it very easy to integrate into other programs. For example, I can write IPTC data to the image from BreezeBrowser and Adobe Bridge/PhotoShop/Lightroom or any other program will also see the data.

I can create as many shortcuts to an image as I like and edit the data from the shortcut rather than finding the original image.

Handy program for not much money.

How portable are files that have been categorised in a particular program? I realise that the image can be viewed in any package, but if, for example, I index photos using ACDSee (using keywords, categories etc) and I later move to another application (Photoshop Elements for example), would the same keywords and categories still be readable and usable in the new program?

Canon Utilities Zoom Browser Ex meets all my needs (it came free with the EOS 350D) and I have switched to it from Photoshop for browsing and arranging, except when I want to do some image tweaking.

Picasa.

Moggy

Hi Scouse, thanks for your response.

I have previously used photoshop Album, it doesn’t support large TIFF files and Adobe’s website now lists it as an unsupported product.

That’s because it’s been incorporated into Photoshop Elements.

Hi Scouse, thanks for your response.

I have previously used photoshop Album, it doesn’t support large TIFF files and Adobe’s website now lists it as an unsupported product.

I will look into your other suggestions.

By chance I was watching a TV show on the accident investigation into SwissAir Flight 111, the Canadian Transportation Safety Board used various products to creat 3D panoramas and hyperlinks to other documents. Interesting… (http://www.tsb.gc.ca/en/reports/air/1998/a98h0003/02sti/16researchandinvestigation/testsandresearch.asp#photodatabase)

I’d have a look at the free giveaways first.

Try (in no particular order) Photoshop Album Starter Edition:

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopalbum/starter.html

or Google’s Picasa:

http://picasa.google.co.uk/intl/en/#utm_source=en-all-more&utm_campaign=en-pic&utm_medium=et

or Irfanview:

http://www.irfanview.com/

There are others, of course, but these are pretty reliable. No so sure about the 3D option, though.

William