>I use Picasaweb because of it's easy integration with Picasa2 which is >easily the best photo management software on the planet...IMHO.
Hhm, you must not have used a lot of other DAM software then. Picasa 2 is pretty good for a free software, but it is far from the best. The lack of database backup features alone was enough for me to look elsewhere. I spent a lot of work organizing all my digital files in Picasa and then ran into issues with the database getting corrupted. The only answer from Picasa support was to delete the database and start over! Well, if I had to start over I might as well find software that will not have the same problem again in the future. I also use PNGs for digital scrapbooking a lot and Picasa did not properly handle those (transparency). I now use ACDSee which blows Picasa out of the water with the latest version and has both a cheap, consumer version as well as an excellent Pro version if you do serious photography and need things like RAW support. It has all the usual stuff for organizing files, doing searches, creating slideshows, etc. plus great database backup tools and functions. For instance, I recently bought a new system with a much larger primary hard drive and needed to move the mapping on my digital scrapbook files from the D: drive to C: drive. This would have been very difficult in most software, was fairly easy to accomplish in ACDSee. It supports online sites like Flickr and Smugmug as well. Definitely highly recommended if you need to organize and handle large numbers of images. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:245256 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
