Re: Organizing photos

snapper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On 14 Feb 2006 05:14:31 -0800, "szeik@xxxxxxxxxxx" <szeik@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I recently purchased a nice sony Cyber-shot DSC p200 digital camera for
my wife and she has been taking pictures like crazy.

The software that came with the camera seems to create a separate
folder each time we download photos from the camera. I haven't really
tried to see what I can do with this software, but I am wondering what
people here would suggest I use to try to organize and maintain our
family photos on our computer. Something where you can keep things
sorted by date and easily delete unwanted pictures, email pictures,
archive, that sort of thing.

Should I just stick with the software that came with the camera or is
there something easier and better.

First thing to do is to rename the pictures.

I use a format like this:-

Location_Date_Time_Subject of image

So I might wind up with a picture named Sydney_060215_1534_Sydney_Harbour_Bridge.jpg

You could always swap the location and Date/Time.

Then I simply put the images in appropriate folders. You could use an image cattledogger like
Picassa, but I have found no need for it, even though I have in excess of 20,000 images on my hard
drive. I can quickly locate images I might be looking for.

Someone mentioned Picasa. That one is good. Adobe has someting
similar. I did not care for the Adobe program. Some of the Epson
Printers also come with a photo management program that was fairly
okay. This is for windows.

For Linux, FL-Photo is good, and is on the SuSe disks. If it is not in
your distribution, you can download it from sourceforge. There are a
couple of other photo management programs in linux also.

Someone mention iPhoto on Mac. I have not used that one, but people
have reported it as being fairly user friendly.

The end result is find one you like. I use FL-Photo in Linux mostly,
and Picasa in Windows sometimes.
However, there was another Linux program I tried that was still beta a
while back that showed some promise, and the developer was talking
about porting it to windows. I don't recall what the program was.
So, there might be something showing up later.

roland

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