Re: Do Smarter Cameras make Dumber Photogs?

[George Sinos]

Earlier Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a few things about 
various software....

Shel

The PS Raw plug in is great, the only drawback is you need Photoshop CS, 
and CS requires Windows XP or one of the later Mac versions.  I can't 
remember which.  Good excuse to upgrade though.

Asset Manager is the latest buzz word for categorizing programs.  If you 
think of your images as assets, it actually make sense.  Imatch is one of 
the more versatile programs in it's price range.  I categorize each photo 
with the location, date taken, recognizable people, general subject, and a 
few other things.  Sounds like it's a lot of work, but it's not.  Imatch is 
set up in a way to make category assignment very quick.  It has features 
that will pull categories from the EXIF data automatically.  I've never 
tried that but it sounds promising.  Anyway, the power comes in when you 
start to use the "virtual categories"   You could make a category called 
"Optio S images from 2004 not taken in Wyoming"  or "All nature photos not 
containing bears" .  It all depends on how you categorized the stuff.

See you later, gs