I'll second IMatch - it's cheap and quite powerfull when it comes to
image organization. IMatch uses category concept where any photo can
belong to any number of categories, and categories can be nested many,
many levels deep into a tree-like structure. It can be a bit
intimidating at the beginning because you have to devise some clever and
extensible category schema but after that it's a joy to use. I
categorize my images after people, events, locations, theme and keywords
and then finding photos by criteria like "give me all the photos taken
at my mothers home where I am in the photo with my wife and mom" or
"give me photos of my cat sleeping" is really easy.
There are also dynamic categories and computed categories (i.e. in this
category show photos belonging to this and this category but not to
these categories) so for example you can look for photos like "show me
photos taken at home where my wife is in the photo but I am not") or
categorize photos after whom you've given them and so when you want to
make another selection for somebody you never have to look through the
photos you've already browsed and accepted/rejected ("just show me
photos put in the persons interesting categories but not the photos I've
already accepted/rejected").
You can also manage image properties, EXIF and IPTC metadata, edit
images, there is also a VisualBasic-like programming language and
several XML import/export options should you like to move to another
software package. You can also browse and manage images even when they
are off-line - IMatch can create some sort of off-line cache for the
purpose (although importing images into database and creating the cache
for them can get some time).
That said, IMatch does not look so slick as Lightroom or Adobe Photoshop
Album, learning curve can be a bit steep at the beginning (main problem
for me was thinking of the category schema) and putting images into
categories really involves a lot of time and discipline (although this
one problem is rather not IMatch specific).
Overall, I find the program essential: despite over 21.000 images and
some 3000 categories in my database I know I am in control of the
situation. :-)
Pawel
Leon Altoff pisze:
> Hi Bruce,
>
> If you have every film image scanned then you can use almost any of the
> image organising programs out there. The Melbourne Museum use IMatch,
> which I think can be connected to an external database.
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