We provide XnView (freeware) as a basic image browser on all Museum staff workstations.
www.xnview.com It does a pretty wide variety of batch processing tasks, creates/exports contact sheets, does batch file naming/renaming, exports file metadata to txt or csv file, allows you to set up scripts for repeated tasks. It does have some simple image editing capabilities, but we stick with PhotoShop for that. Pretty nifty little piece of software -- I highly recommend it. For more complex metadata work, I've been using ExifTool (also freeware), which has a steeper learning curve (it's command line driven), but has a broad range of read/write capabilities. Deb Wythe Brooklyn Museum Digital Lab deborahwythe at hotmail.com > From: FThomson at ashevilleart.org > To: mcn-l at mcn.edu > Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:45:57 -0400 > Subject: Re: [MCN-L] A working list of free/low-cost alternatives to Adobe > Creative Cloud products > > ACDSee is a low cost photo editing program that does all the basics. Doesn't > really do levels. > > -----Original Message----- > From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of > Edson, Michael > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2014 12:17 PM > To: Museum Computer Network Listserv > Subject: [MCN-L] A working list of free/low-cost alternatives to Adobe > Creative Cloud products > > I'm running a working group here at SI to identify free and low-cost > alternatives to the products in the Adobe Creative Cloud suite. > To that end, I've put a working list of those products - - and possible > alternatives to them - - on our public wiki: > http://smithsonian-webstrategy.wikispaces.com/Alternatives+to+Adobe+Creativ > e+Cloud+products > > > Many of you know that Adobe has recently moved from a buy-it-and-keep-it > model to an annual "subscription" model, and for us here at the Smithsonian, > Adobe has also dropped our educational discount: this is going to cost us a > lot of money - - maybe $500/year per user. > > Our assumption is that most creative professionals will need to continue with > Creative Cloud, but in many instances - - say, an intern doing basic photo > manipulation - - a free/cheap tool may be just as good. (I've been using > GIMP, a free/open alternative to Photoshop, for years and I'm very happy with > it, and Google+ has quietly introduced a very elegant image editing solution > that works for 90% of the image editing I do.) > > If you know of other products or have something to add, please feel free to > comment on the page, edit it, or contact me directly. I'll ping the list when > we issue our recommendations. > > Thanks!! > > Michael Edson > Smithsonian Institution. > > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/ > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/
