That is always the problem with databases. BTW, Adobe bridge can attach all kinds of info and catagories to your photos, but it does still have the problem that you have to enter the info and select the catagories.
Boris Liberman wrote: > I think LightRoom can do most if not all that you indicated, Bruce. > However the hmmm process of giving program necessary data to perform > organization has to be done by human and that's a huge task. > > Boris > > > > Bruce Dayton wrote: >> My wife is getting serious about trying to organize all our photos. I >> have most of them scanned and the past several years have all been >> digital. So on the plus side, we can work in one medium for the >> moment. >> >> She would like to organize images by child, by event, by date, etc. >> Then be able to access the images for some type of use - printing, >> making galleries, making scrapbooks electronically, etc. So there >> would need to be other programs to "import" an image and she would >> need to be able to find it. >> >> So if the organization was in a proprietary file or something, >> external programs may not be able to deal with it. That would make >> the organizing less useful. >> >> So once organized, she might say, "I want to make a gallery of the >> highlights of the past year." So whatever software we use to make >> online galleries would be loaded and she would want to find all the >> files for the past year and browse through and choose some for the >> gallery. Or she might say "I want prints of the last ice skating >> competition." She would need to be able to find the photos and put >> them on disk or some directory for uploading or some such. >> >> We are using Windows XP - so the organizing software would need to >> work with it. Any ideas would be helpful. >> > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
