Photo Catalog

[tdgrinstead]

Any good photo catalog programs.. I now have a bunch of cds full of images and it is getting hard to find anything.....any ideas? Whats good?

[reflectionsbyruth]

I've been using ACDSee Pro the past month and it works great especially with offline pictures on CD/DVD's
It leaves thumbnails on your computer in the categories you placed them in and will tell you the CD/DVD name/number the original is in.

Download the demo to see if you like it.
You can also try ACDSee 8 as well
http://www.acdsystems.com/

Also, Microsoft Digital Image Suite Pro 2006 has the similar cataloging built right into their program.

[djwixx]

I've tried Picassa/MS Picture Manager/Adobe Photoshop Album/Adobe Elements, and personally, hate the photo organisation mechanisms they use. I swear by Thumbsplus (not the cheapest), but for me the most intuitive photo organiser. It also handles offline disks like CDs/DVDs very well.

[reflectionsbyruth]

Does ThumbsPlus read RAW files?
I thought I remembered a few years ago when I tested it, it did not.
Many of the packages previously out there did now view RAW so thats why I originally didnt use many of them.

[jypsee]

mainly because I have a way of thinking that doesn't seem to match the way software wants me to think. Instead, I organize by camera, location, and date and then in the date I have a subdirectory of subject/locations

I also keep my DVDs organized that way.

[djwixx]

I never use RAW, but the emails I get suggest that it now supports numerous RAW formats.

As per http://www.cerious.com,

ThumbsPlus Pro Edition supports raw and professional camera file formats (Digicam Plug-in required):

* .CRW (Canon raw format)
* .CR2 (Canon raw format)
* .NEF (Nikon raw format)
* .MRW (Minolta raw format)
* .DCS (Kodak professional camera)
* .DCR (Kodak professional camera)
* .ORF (Olympus raw format)
* .MDC (Minolta format)

[bobclewley]

I use cam2pc http://www.nabocorp.com/cam2pc/ great for downloading with lots of options
and Fotoalbum http://www.fototime.com/fotoalbum

The latter makes it so easy to burn all or just a part of your album to CD / DVD

[bobclewley]

I use cam2pc http://www.nabocorp.com/cam2pc/ great for downloading with lots of options
and Fotoalbum http://www.fototime.com/fotoalbum

The latter makes it so easy to burn all or just a part of your album to CD / DVD

[fenilyn]

Here's a link that will help you decide which catalog programs do you want to used. It's a collection of comments seen on the internet regarding the photo catalog programs...

http://www.impulseadventure.com/photo/f ... views.html




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