OT: Is anyone into......photography?

I'm looking for a program [any OS] that will sort photos. For example: If I have a photo of 4 kids working together on a science project, I'd like to be able to type in the names of the kids, the word science ....and have the program place a copy of the photo into each of the 4 children's science folders. Any ideas?

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Picasa does a pretty decent job of photo sorting. You can check it out. It’s free, so you can use it and just uninstall it if you don’t like it.

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by Natto on Mar 29, 2009 1:41 PM PDT reply actions

For what you're looking for, there are really two good options:

Apple iPhoto (Mac Only, part of iLife, $79) – iPhoto lets you sort your photos a lot like iTunes will sort your music. Everything is in a library, but you can put a photo into as many different albums (like you can put a song into as many different playlists) without creating copies. It also will allow to use keywords like you want. Also, the latest version includes face recognition (which works surprisingly well for a first-gen feature), GPS sorting, and also is strong at editing the photos (most consumers I know say they barely use photoshop anymore).

Adobe Lightroom (Windows or Mac – $299) – Lightroom is a more professional software, but it’s Adobe’s answer to iPhoto and Apple’s more professional software, Aperture. Lightroom doesn’t have face recognition or GPS, but is a much more powerful editor as well as a organizational program.

I’ll openly admit I"m a Mac-only user, so there may be Windows-only options I’m not familiar with. But if you have a Mac, definitely get iPhoto.

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by BruteSentiment on Mar 29, 2009 2:53 PM PDT reply actions

+1

on Adobe Lightroom

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by SoFa King Mike on Mar 30, 2009 9:01 AM PDT up reply actions

nudge nudge

lightroom is a goer, eh.

I use Photoshop CS4/Bridge for my post processing and flow-thru (respectively).

i believe that you’d be able to organize your photos in Bridge, which is the sort-of flow-thru para-application to Photoshop, but i don’t use it for that.

CS4 is pricey, though.

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by The Gene Hackman on Mar 30, 2009 10:17 AM PDT up reply actions

I use Photoshop CS4/Bridge for my post processing and flow-thru (respectively).

I have Bridge CS4 on an iBook I, um, aquired. Can you explain what you mean by PP
and flow-through? When I open it up on my system, there’s only CD and DVD labels
stored on it, so I assumed it was a label-making program.

Thanks.

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by bgunn on Mar 30, 2009 3:40 PM PDT up reply actions

Post processing = work you do on fotos after you take them. Adjusting levels, cropping, sharpening, blurring et c. I use photoshop for that. I have foto-friends i admire who prefer Lightroom, fwiw.

Flow Thru = the process of getting the images off of your camera, renaming them and filing/tagging them appropriately… Bridge helps you sort thru the stuff you’re going to post-process, and organize that stuff once you’ve processed it.

hope this helps.

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by The Gene Hackman on Mar 30, 2009 4:56 PM PDT up reply actions

I work for www.tillate.com, photographers get in at all hours of the morning and have to edit, sort and upload to the site 80-200 photos by the following afternoon. Most people here use picasa, mainly because it is free, but it does the job just fine. Personally I use Lightroom, it is more powerful, better for editing, but I only chose it because I had my box set up with adobe CS4 apps already.

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by Mr Scruff on Mar 29, 2009 6:39 PM PDT reply actions

Adobe Lightroom

If you’re really into photography I think Adobe Lightroom 2 is the way to go, fo sho. Maximum ability to edit photos and add tags and organize and search. It is definitely the best out there, although a little overkill if we are just talking snapshots. However I have used it to salvage several mistake snapshot photos. Its quite good with jpg’s and gives a lot of RAW options with jpg photos.

by projectmayhem713 on Mar 29, 2009 9:39 PM PDT reply actions

ACDsee

Will do what you want IIRC. Works pretty well, what I use for RAW editing.

I use Picasa to manage JPG

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by FairweatherFan on Mar 30, 2009 11:50 AM PDT reply actions

Thanks for all the advice. This is purely to be used as an organizational tool. 25 kids x 40 “categories” x ≥ 2 pics per category… 3x per year, is a lot of pictures to wade through…

I want to have time over the summer to play with it and see what will work bestest.

Frankly I don’t care what the photos look like – quality wise – so long as a boss type person can look at them and say “yes, this photo demonstrates that this child knows how to write the alphabet whilst standing on her head.” then I’m happy. Or, well, considerably less annoyed than usual.

by Merope on Mar 30, 2009 1:15 PM PDT reply actions