Digital Picture Management Software

[dejavu1313]

Greetings Everyone,

Can anyone suggest a good digital picture management software? I am interested in getting something that has the same look and feel as MusicMatch’s audio player. In MusicMatch one can view files via “By Album”, “By Artist”, “By Year”, etc. It looks like it is based on a relational database structure which makes browsing large directories very fast. The ability to make play list is also very useful. Of course the picture’s metadata will have categories such as “Location”, “Event”, “People”, etc.

Thanks In Advance…

[Skyman]

Probably the wrong forumn for this but i like Thumbs plus. check out the digital photography forumn though.

[opus]

I'm not sure if it's compatible with the Windows platform, but iPhoto does all that, I think. You can make albums. You can set your own keyword categories, organize photos by keyword, film roll, album, manually...

And it does the image manipulations, too, without touching the original.

You can also, very quickly, create a "picture book" and view onscreen as a book. Or, have a slide show. With music.

I like, too, how it saves much of the digital exposure information that it gets from the camera, too, in the info window of each picture.


The only thing I *don't* like about it is that upon opening the program, it defaults to the "library" view, which at this point is very slow to load, with all the images I have right now. I haven't fiddled with it yet to see if I can change that.