Photo Management Software

#1 Dawn Mikulich

Have you thought about Portfolio Extensis or Photoshop Photo Album? The Photoshop program is supposed to be available mid February. I use Extensis Portfolio. BTW, thanks for the email regarding your site.

10:35 pm - Sunday, January 26, 2003

#2 Mark Goldstein

Hi Dawn!

I couldn't find a beta version of Photoshop Photo Album on the Adobe site, so I may review that at a later date.

Is Extensis Portfolio a MAC program? When I went to download it, the platform was listed as MacOS...

10:45 pm - Sunday, January 26, 2003

#3 Dawn Mikulich

There is both a Mac & Windows version. The Window's version is 5.0 only while the Mac version is available as 6.0.

10:48 pm - Sunday, January 26, 2003

#4 Mark Goldstein

Oh, OK, I'll download the Windows version 5.

Thanks!

10:53 pm - Sunday, January 26, 2003

#5 Sue

Mark, I downloaded and paid for Picasa. It took me all of 15 minutes to make up my mind this was the program for me.

The price had something to do with it, but I like being able to hide directories, and to rotate pictures at will.

4:28 am - Monday, January 27, 2003

#6 Mark Goldstein

Hi Sue,

I think you've hit upon a good idea here...

If everyone could leave a comment saying which program they use and a brief description of why they chose it (as Sue has done), then I will incorporate the feedback into my comparison.

Thanks,
Mark

1:07 pm - Monday, January 27, 2003

#7 David Riecks

Mark:

You may also wish to check out Canto Cumulus (http://www.Canto.com/). Like photoshop it has a steep learning curve, but it's also extremely powerful, and has several companys that have created additional "Add-on" products.

You may also wish to check out "Controlled Vocabulary" a website that I've been building (http://www.ControlledVocabulary.com/). I've worked hard to develop an "agnostic" system of managing images. The heart of this concept is using the IPTC fields built into Photoshop and Corel Photopaint as a means of storing all the "meta-data" for each image. This way you can easily switch databases with no problems, as all the critical image data travels with the image.

HTH

David

6:10 am - Tuesday, June 17, 2003

#8 Mark Goldstein

Thanks for the suggestion David - I'm downloading the trial version of Canto right now

I think IMatch uses the IPTC system as well (or gives you the option) - this is the software that I'm currently considering.

http://www.photools.com/

Mark

2:46 pm - Wednesday, June 18, 2003

#9 David Riecks

Mark:

I've got the demo of imatch on my desktop, but haven't had a chance to take a look yet. I've heard good things about this app, including the ability to "push" IPTC data back into the file. Not sure which formats that is for, but would imagine TIF and Jpeg are covered. BTW, Canto offers this option as well, and it's cross platform to boot. That means you can distribute a CD that mac or windows users can read without having to install the software on their computer.

David

6:47 pm - Wednesday, June 18, 2003

#10 John - www.baeyens.net

Mark, does Photoshop Photo Album RAW plugin support the 10D?

12:03 am - Sunday, August 24, 2003

#11 Mark Goldstein

I don't think Adobe RAW does officially support the 10D, as it was released before the camera.

I've heard rumours that Adobe RAW may be part of Photoshop 8, which may be released in Nov/Dec of this year, and it will probably add support for the 10D.

Mark

1:21 pm - Sunday, August 24, 2003