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Photo Organiser – what’s the best?
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Hi Folks,
I’ve started to gather a lot of photographs between my laptop & the young lads PC. It’s becomming scattered and I could do withh a decent photo organiser thats useful, easy to use, can be used like a database and dependable. Any advice? I don’t use the software provided with the camera because it takes over and I find they are not necessarily the best in class.
What’s the best? iView Media Pro 3 is probably the best, IMHO. Do some “Google ” research on it and you’ll see what others are saying about it. I’ve installed it myself and am currently getting it configured – that’s the hard part. Do that right and everything else after that should be plain sailing.
I’ve only been using iView for the last 2 weeks now, so I’m hardly a power user. But leaving aside the effort it’s taken to catalog and sort all my past photos, it’s a superb tool and very easy to use. It’s not overly expensive either.
Thanks for your advice Thorsten & Ciaran. I had a look and was more than pleasantly surprised and downloaded the trial version. Tthe only way to get the best of this trial version is to catalogue what you have. Given the fact that you have 3 weeks to try it you have everything catalogued and working…clever people.
One review described it as addictive and he’s totally dependant on it. I can understand this! I bought the software this afternoon and from what I can see this is the dogs whatsits. I’ve everything catalogued and labelled and it works a dream. I especially like the batch renaming facility. And the fact that it works directly with whatever support software you select, such as PS, this is the primary interface you need and it’s so simple to use. Relatively speaking I do think it was a bit on the expensive side but there ain’t nothing else that I’ve seen over the last couple of days with these features.
I knew it was a good idea to sign up to this forum. Thanks guys. :D
I have Apples “Aperture” which I find excellent. There is only one drawback for you PC users – it won’t work for you!
It also has some excellent editing tools and for those who want to use an external editor like photoshop cs2 / elements its a click away.Another vote for iview media pro. I use Photomechanic to download and caption stuff (AWESOME TOOL!) as it can caption and keyword raw files directly, and copy them to your preferred locations / directory structures. Then when you import into ivew, they are already keyworded for you. Simple-bimple. Super-duper.
iview can be a little slow, that’s my only gripe. I’ve about 50k images in it, and can find any subset or specific image very quickly. and I like it a lot.
Merv.
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