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Greetings,
Looking for some advice/experience on image management/cataloging applications. I’ve been experimenting with Dell Image Expert (understand it was bought by JASC, then dropped?), and ACDSee. I’m getting ready to start a project and will need to enter a fair amount of historical data on each image, so I don’t want to start with a product that will not be transportable to the final product (if I don’t start with the final). Kind new to this, but I think my requirements are (in no particular order):
1. Automatic cataloging of directories (point it to a folder/CDROM,
and it gets all the images and adds them to the database).
2. Ability to track images by CD volume label (I select a thumbnail to open, and the program tells me to insert CD blah blah blah)
3. Database size- this might be important, I’ve got seven peach crates of albums and scrapbooks to scan/catalog, and a couple coat boxes of loose snapshots and portraits.
Not to mention my current/ongoing photographic endeavors.
4. Transportability- If the application I put all this time and effort into goes belly up, can I transport all the image info into a new app without having to retype, or end up using the old app and some new app.
5. Ease of adding image info. IE is pretty easy- select a thumb, click on the info tab and start typing.
6. Sort/Search on multiple keywords, date, image info
7. Ability to link more than one file to a thumb/entry? I have visions of storing all the raw scans on one set of CDs, and storing finished/manipulated images on another set, and then completed scrapbook/albums on a third set. WOrk process will be to scan all the images /items, then come back and edit/cleanup, then come back and assemble albums (not image man. program albums, elctronic versions of photo-albums/scrapbooks) It’d be nice, I think, to be able to see all files associated with a given image.
8. Centralized image info storage. If I need to transfer to a new hard drive, or make backups, how hard is it to do.
DO any such beasts exist?
Any and all advice welcome.
Thanks,
DP
Looking for some advice/experience on image management/cataloging applications. I’ve been experimenting with Dell Image Expert (understand it was bought by JASC, then dropped?), and ACDSee. I’m getting ready to start a project and will need to enter a fair amount of historical data on each image, so I don’t want to start with a product that will not be transportable to the final product (if I don’t start with the final). Kind new to this, but I think my requirements are (in no particular order):
1. Automatic cataloging of directories (point it to a folder/CDROM,
and it gets all the images and adds them to the database).
2. Ability to track images by CD volume label (I select a thumbnail to open, and the program tells me to insert CD blah blah blah)
3. Database size- this might be important, I’ve got seven peach crates of albums and scrapbooks to scan/catalog, and a couple coat boxes of loose snapshots and portraits.
Not to mention my current/ongoing photographic endeavors.
4. Transportability- If the application I put all this time and effort into goes belly up, can I transport all the image info into a new app without having to retype, or end up using the old app and some new app.
5. Ease of adding image info. IE is pretty easy- select a thumb, click on the info tab and start typing.
6. Sort/Search on multiple keywords, date, image info
7. Ability to link more than one file to a thumb/entry? I have visions of storing all the raw scans on one set of CDs, and storing finished/manipulated images on another set, and then completed scrapbook/albums on a third set. WOrk process will be to scan all the images /items, then come back and edit/cleanup, then come back and assemble albums (not image man. program albums, elctronic versions of photo-albums/scrapbooks) It’d be nice, I think, to be able to see all files associated with a given image.
8. Centralized image info storage. If I need to transfer to a new hard drive, or make backups, how hard is it to do.
DO any such beasts exist?
Any and all advice welcome.
Thanks,
DP
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