On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 5:09 PM, David Vincent-Jones <[email protected]>wrote:
> I would be interested to know what software others are using to manage > all of their images. > RS does such a great job in its speciality field, but where does one go > for grading, sorting, printing, general management etc? > > David > > > Actually I've shied away from using any photo management app, at least in the traditional sense of tagging, sorting and search. I have never been happy with doing all that organizing work and having it live in a silo of sorts. I may be wrong in this, but I don't for instance think there is a way to migrate all of that metadata (ratings etc) that I might have created in F-Spot to some other photo management app. I would think the same thing goes for commercial apps like Lightroom etc. I've always wondered why more apps are not available that use IPTC tagging (which is embedded in the image file itself). I know that jBrout can do this, but then again why doesn't f-spot or Digikam etc.. For now, I rely on Rawstudio for culling my raw images and then fall back on a simple hierarchical filing system by date. One solution that really beckons me at times is Google's Picasa. If it was F/OSS I'd be so happy. I use it on my windows system at work and the latest version (I think it's windows only) has an eerily accurate facial recognition feature and great search features as well. Something like that in the F/OSS world would really grab me in the short term. An OS-wide standardized file tagging system might solve this whole problem. If every app could be built to tap into that standardized metadata database it would be so useful for so many things, especially photos. If every filetype had a built in tag set like IPTC in jpeg files, it would be even better. Then the metadata would move with the file when you copied or moved it. One can only dream. :) RQ
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