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Photo Organizing Software-need advice
Hello,
I need recommendations for a digital photo organizing software. I am looking for software that can 1) Log my photos and assign a specific number of alphanumeric identifier to each. 2) Allow me to print annotated photos in groups of 2-4 per page. 3) let me keep electronic notes, such as date taken, photographer, description and other information. 4) Has a quick learning curve. Is there software out there that can do this for me? thanks |
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Photo Organizing Software-need advice
John wrote:
I need recommendations for a digital photo organizing software. I am looking for software that can 1) Log my photos and assign a specific number of alphanumeric identifier to each. 2) Allow me to print annotated photos in groups of 2-4 per page. 3) let me keep electronic notes, such as date taken, photographer, description and other information. 4) Has a quick learning curve. Is there software out there that can do this for me? You don't say Windows or Mac. On Windows, I'm using Thumbs Plus from Cerious Software. I use it for all those except #1; for #1 I use Siren File Rename, a piece of free software. (Thumbs Plus does have some batch rename ability I think, but I've never used it because I've always wanted more complicated patterns.) I put the "electronic notes" into IPTC fields in the files, Thumbs Plus has a first-rate IPTC editor. I've got several binders of contact sheets I've printed via Thumbs Plus, and I believe I can control the size and all. Mine are smaller than it sounds like you want, so you might investigate how it works if printing contact sheets with images bigger than your thumbnail size. I don't recall having trouble when I first started using it, but I'm good at software. I recently went through an investigation of possible alternatives, and looked at ACDSee and Imatch fairly carefully, and did not find reasons enough to switch (Thumbs Plus doesn't pre-load photos in the background for super-quick viewing, but I've found a workaround with slideshow and some carefully chosen favorites settings that lets me go through my initial sort fairly painlessly even if there are many hundreds of photos to sort). (Huh; Imatch is Windows only also, it seems. Yikes, and ACDSee appears to be also. Hope you're using Windows, or I have nothing of any use whatsoever for you!) |
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Photo Organizing Software-need advice
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John wrote: Hello, I need recommendations for a digital photo organizing software. I am looking for software that can 1) Log my photos and assign a specific number of alphanumeric identifier to each. 2) Allow me to print annotated photos in groups of 2-4 per page. 3) let me keep electronic notes, such as date taken, photographer, description and other information. 4) Has a quick learning curve. Is there software out there that can do this for me? thanks On Windows or Mac, there's Extensis Portfolio which is professional level media management software. It is very powerful with tons and tons of options on how media assets can be cataloged. Check it out at http://www.extensis.com |
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On Apr 20, 1:34 pm, John wrote:
Hello, I need recommendations for a digital photo organizing software. I am looking for software that can 1) Log my photos and assign a specific number of alphanumeric identifier to each. 2) Allow me to print annotated photos in groups of 2-4 per page. 3) let me keep electronic notes, such as date taken, photographer, description and other information. 4) Has a quick learning curve. Is there software out there that can do this for me? thanks I'm talking about Windows. Thank you. |
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Photo Organizing Software-need advice
Have a look at iView (http://www.iview-multimedia.com/downloads/). You
can have a free trial run for 21 days, and both Mac and Windows versions are available. I've been using it for a number of years, and I think it's great. In article . com, John wrote: Hello, I need recommendations for a digital photo organizing software. I am looking for software that can 1) Log my photos and assign a specific number of alphanumeric identifier to each. 2) Allow me to print annotated photos in groups of 2-4 per page. 3) let me keep electronic notes, such as date taken, photographer, description and other information. 4) Has a quick learning curve. Is there software out there that can do this for me? thanks |
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Photo Organizing Software-need advice
"John" wrote in message
ups.com... Hello, I need recommendations for a digital photo organizing software. I am looking for software that can 1) Log my photos and assign a specific number of alphanumeric identifier to each. 2) Allow me to print annotated photos in groups of 2-4 per page. 3) let me keep electronic notes, such as date taken, photographer, description and other information. 4) Has a quick learning curve. I checked out several and decided on ACDSee. It does each of the things you mention, plus something that I required - keeping track of images that are on CD's. ThumbsPlus was a close second - both of them had 30 day eval versions, so you can try both of them. The main advantage, I felt, of ACDSee was speed. -- Mike Russell www.curvemeister.com/forum/ |
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Photo Organizing Software-need advice
On Apr 21, 4:34 am, John wrote:
Hello, I need recommendations for a digitalphotoorganizing software. I am looking for software that can 1) Log my photos and assign a specific number of alphanumeric identifier to each. 2) Allow me to print annotated photos in groups of 2-4 per page. 3) let me keep electronic notes, such as date taken, photographer, description and other information. 4) Has a quick learning curve. Is there software out there that can do this for me? thanks You can use Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder which is very powerful and very popular now, many friends and I like it very much. It's very easy to create a customized DVD slideshow with photos and videos, and to add music, transitions, and cool pan/zoom effects and make beautiful DVD menus. Also, you can create .mp4, .wmv, .avi, .3gp movies from videos in other formats for our iPod, Zune and 3GP Cell Phones, Youtube .etc. To be important, it has great photo and video editing function that can meet all our needs. For example, you can perfect your photos with attractive frames, special mask effects, and rich Cliparts, Wordarts or Text. And it is easy to crop music to sync with slideshow. You can use the video edit function to trim the video, add the caption and frame to the video, and change the original audio with your favorite music, etc. You can download it free here http://www.photo-to-dvd.com/dvd-slid...lder.php?sid=8 And a specific tutorial is here http://www.photo2vcd.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1452 Some useful information such as tips to make slideshow awesome is he http://www.photo-to-dvd.com/other/po...ld-memory.html |
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