Photo software for selection/tagging ..?

[Matus]

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
-

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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]

Lightroom will do all that.

 

[sevres_babylone]

I like Photo Mechanic.

 

[newsgrunt]

Photo Mechanic. can assign different classes to photos etc. IPTC, keywords, etc...yada yada yada

 

[robert blu]

Lightroom, no doubts!

 

[sepiareverb]

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]

+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]

+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]

+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...

Thank you. A surprisingly few people seem to use Bridge.

+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.

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?