Matus
Well-known
I need your help guys. My wife goes through here (digital) photos from different old-timer-events (she is quite a fan - of course her favorite car would cost about $1.5M 
) and tries to select the best shots for each car. And we have hard time to find a software (free or not) that could do the following.
OS: Windows 7 (it is HER computer, not mine :angel: )
wanted:
- allow to add tags or text
- ability ro rank images would be nice
- these tags/text need to be searchable
- automatic recognition of the image rotation (camera info)
- IMPORTANT: ability to show selected images at once (optimally on second screen) - be it 1, 2, 3 or 6 or whatever - this should be possible over different folders based on the tags or selected by hand.
not wanted:
- any sort of databasing the images that would physically move the images around - these should stay in the folders where they are.
not relevant:
- image post processing abilities
- RAW support
-
****
So far she has tried:
- Picassa: not so great, only 2 images at a time and only from the same folder
- XnView: was rather OK (not perfect though), but was not stable for whatever reason.
Your help is much appreciated (I was not too lucky searching online)
) and tries to select the best shots for each car. And we have hard time to find a software (free or not) that could do the following.OS: Windows 7 (it is HER computer, not mine :angel: )
wanted:
- allow to add tags or text
- ability ro rank images would be nice
- these tags/text need to be searchable
- automatic recognition of the image rotation (camera info)
- IMPORTANT: ability to show selected images at once (optimally on second screen) - be it 1, 2, 3 or 6 or whatever - this should be possible over different folders based on the tags or selected by hand.
not wanted:
- any sort of databasing the images that would physically move the images around - these should stay in the folders where they are.
not relevant:
- image post processing abilities
- RAW support
-
****
So far she has tried:
- Picassa: not so great, only 2 images at a time and only from the same folder
- XnView: was rather OK (not perfect though), but was not stable for whatever reason.
Your help is much appreciated (I was not too lucky searching online)
Godfrey
somewhat colored
Lightroom will do all that.
sevres_babylone
Veteran
I like Photo Mechanic.
newsgrunt
Well-known
Photo Mechanic. can assign different classes to photos etc. IPTC, keywords, etc...yada yada yada
robert blu
quiet photographer
Lightroom, no doubts!
sepiareverb
genius and moron
Bridge. Much simpler than Lightroom and quite happy to deal with your existing filing system. Powerful organization if it gets that far. Many output options as well.
Damaso
Photojournalist
+1 on Bridge. I've been using it for year and it does the job. Lightroom will also work but I find it overly complicated just for organizing...
sleepyhead
Well-known
+2 for Adobe Bridge. It's part of the Photoshop installation, I don't think it can be purchased as a stand-alone program, and I don't know if it's bundled wiyh PS Elements.
sepiareverb
genius and moron
Thank you. A surprisingly few people seem to use Bridge.
And Thank you too. I believe it comes with most any of the Individual CS components. Possibly using it alone via the new Cloud subscription Adobe has is an option?