I like taking pictures with my digital camera. Problem is, I never sort them into any usable kind of archive. Now, I have hundreds of images that I would like to organize into albums but they are named with the lousy time/date serial style naming convention that most digital cameras use. Having seen what the new iPhoto software can do on the Mac, I’ve started looking around the internet for something even close to that functionality on the PC. So far it looks like I’m out of luck. I’ve since started the tedious task of sorting my photos ‘by hand’. By that I mean moving them into groups of folders and then those folders into more accurate folders and so on. The end result should be a nice clean layout of image folders such as a Family folder that would then have subfolders for me and my wife. It will take me awhile but the goal is to get them sorted well enough that I can then use some cataloging software to automate tagging and naming the images from here on out. Anyone have any suggestions for GOOD image management software for the PC?
Aug 142009
Be prepared for the AppleBots to tell you that it’s iPhoto.
Apparently, I hit send accidentally. What I meant to finish with was that Google’s Picasa is the closest thing in the PC world. It’s not quite facial recognition mojo, but it’s a reasonable substitution. However, I’m not sure that you don’t lose your copyright to your photos if you use it. At least I thought I remembered some sort of copyright issues with it. Maybe it was Flickr, but I’m pretty sure Picasa/Google had some sort of weird deal as well.