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.
My problem is that I have several thousand slides that I want to keep track of and only 5% at most are scanned. I still want ot be able to get information on all the slide images along with the scanned and digital ones. I never did catalog my negative film images. They are in labeled boxes under the bed and for the most part I enjoy going through them when I want to find something. I started out with an Excel spreadsheet with my slides then moved to Access and wrote a database that allosw me to search on whatever I want, mark images for upto 7 different projects, print out an 8 image to a page report and even write my web pages for me. But I don't recommend this route unless you are good with database programs - Access 2007 broke some of my filtering routines that have been working for since Access 97. I will say that if you have not been cataloguing your images before now it will be a huge job to get all the data in to a point where you can find images instantly. Good luck. Leon http://www.bluering.org.au http://www.bluering.org.au/leon 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.
