A big thanks to all who have offered information and advice on this
subject. A fair number indicated Lightroom as a possible solution. I
have used Lightroom a bit and I think that for my wife, all the extra
capabilities are going to be a bit daunting for her - there is so much
extra UI hanging around to confuse her.
Since IMatch has a 30 day trial and sounds much like what I am looking
for, I think I'll give it a try and see how she does with it. If that
works out well, then we are on to the hard part (categorizing and
organizing). If she ends up not liking it, perhaps I'll have her take
a look at Lightroom.
Again, thanks for your responses.
--
Best regards,
Bruce
Friday, September 28, 2007, 8:07:32 AM, you wrote:
PB> I'll second IMatch - it's cheap and quite powerfull when it comes to
PB> image organization. IMatch uses category concept where any photo can
PB> belong to any number of categories, and categories can be nested many,
PB> many levels deep into a tree-like structure. It can be a bit
PB> intimidating at the beginning because you have to devise some clever and
PB> extensible category schema but after that it's a joy to use. I
PB> categorize my images after people, events, locations, theme and keywords
PB> and then finding photos by criteria like "give me all the photos taken
PB> at my mothers home where I am in the photo with my wife and mom" or
PB> "give me photos of my cat sleeping" is really easy.
PB> There are also dynamic categories and computed categories (i.e. in this
PB> category show photos belonging to this and this category but not to
PB> these categories) so for example you can look for photos like "show me
PB> photos taken at home where my wife is in the photo but I am not") or
PB> categorize photos after whom you've given them and so when you want to
PB> make another selection for somebody you never have to look through the
PB> photos you've already browsed and accepted/rejected ("just show me
PB> photos put in the persons interesting categories but not the photos I've
PB> already accepted/rejected").
PB> You can also manage image properties, EXIF and IPTC metadata, edit
PB> images, there is also a VisualBasic-like programming language and
PB> several XML import/export options should you like to move to another
PB> software package. You can also browse and manage images even when they
PB> are off-line - IMatch can create some sort of off-line cache for the
PB> purpose (although importing images into database and creating the cache
PB> for them can get some time).
PB> That said, IMatch does not look so slick as Lightroom or Adobe Photoshop
PB> Album, learning curve can be a bit steep at the beginning (main problem
PB> for me was thinking of the category schema) and putting images into
PB> categories really involves a lot of time and discipline (although this
PB> one problem is rather not IMatch specific).
PB> Overall, I find the program essential: despite over 21.000 images and
PB> some 3000 categories in my database I know I am in control of the
PB> situation. :-)
PB> Pawel
PB> 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.
PB> ____________________________________________________________________________
PB> Domena za 90 groszy!
PB> www.nazwa.pl
--
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.
