This is my system. All of my photos go into one of two piles, "those containing bears" and "those not containing bears". Although after following this thread for several days I am thinking about starting a new category for pictures containing bagels. Lot of work to re-sort, though . . .
Steven Desjardins Department of Chemistry Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA 24450 (540) 458-8873 FAX: (540) 458-8878 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/16/04 11:49PM >>> 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
