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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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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

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

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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