Image Management Software
Hey-Ya, you right ? (english greeting)
Just a quick question before I go to bed, I have close to 200 gbs of photos from my trip, and a few days before we head home. Can anyone suggest a really good, clean and easy to use program for image management. I’m considering Lightroom or imatch but I haven’t tried either but both come strongly recommended from friends/peers. What do other people use, I’d like something that I can easily view and sort, and probably tag and catergorise my 1000’s of photos.
This will be the last for me in a while, maybe up to a week, depending on the state of our house (hopefully its not underwater).
Cheers,
Craig
Popular Mr
I’ve only recently started tagging and cataloging my stuff and it is heaps of work…but it makes finding them a lot easier…if you tag then correctly and remember wat you tag them.
I use lightroom and i find it rather easy to use
Craig Goldsmith
Thanks for the quick response, when I get back I’ll see what suits my style and let everyone know which I end up using and why.
David Sundstrom
Hi Craig,
I’m currently using lightroom, I find it meets my needs very well, it takes me allot less time to post process now …
download the 1.1 demo and give it a try
Morven
I use Apple’s Aperture, but obviously that only helps if you are already a Mac user. I love it. From what I’ve heard, Lightroom is also very good, and improving.
georgiegirl
I never thought of doing this with a program!
I just have them all in folders named by type… flowers, family, odds n sods, animals… you know… regular labels! Some things are grouped in more folders inside those (family is yearly for example).
As for software, I have Adobe Bridge and that sorts and labels in singles or as a batch.
Stephen Mitchell
Read my response in my journal .
Considering we shoot an average of 150 photographs per day, it’s imperative that I keep my work organised. Just last week on Kangaroo Island (hehe, free plug!) I shot 5,000 photographs. After sorting, it was easier to cull it down to 3,000 – all of which are easily located by date and location/item.
But I can understand how Lighthouse would be beneficial:
I saw a demoversion on a UK-camera magazine DVD that shows how it allows tagging and how to categorise in multiple directories. A very important feature for professional photographers!!
Craig Goldsmith
Thanks for your response (I’ve commented over there). And your right when you deal with high volumes you need some form of organisation, the 20,700 odd photos I took on my trip for instance, are currently spread over 30 DVDs and 2 HDs, its already a bit of a mess.