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Best photo organizer for Windows?

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Lifer
Hello 🙂

I have about 24 GBs of JPEG and more than 50 GBs of RAW format photos on my hard drive and after several backups over the years, things got a little messy as far as organizing goes. I am thinking of using a software like Picasa to rename, tag, delete duplicates, etc. What do you think? Any recommendations? I thought of Picasa first as I trust it a bit more with Google behind the curtain.

Cheers!
 
Picasa is fantastic, my friends and I use it to share images on web albums, there's even a Media Center Picasa plugin so I can view public web albums on the big screen.
 
Picasa has a major problem. You can't maker changes and save as and then use that file elsewhere.

I have always liked Adobe PE - but that is getting to be too bloated. Corel Media One is very nice and easy to use.

Bottom line - the "best" organizer is the one you are handiest with and most familiar.
 
Among several applications that I've used for viewing and other image duties, Faststone was the most useful for me when it came to sorting files.
 
Corkyg: To make changes in Picasa and save (or send with changes) I export to a new folder. Export sends the file with all changes and allows you to use original resolution or select some smaller resolution and stores them under the My documents/ My pictures/ Picasa exports folder. I find this very useful for preparing and saving changed pictures for email, collections for ads, and collections for event CDs.


Jim
 
I've mostly used faststone and xnview under windows, with faststone being the usual choice.

What they mainly do they usually do modestly decently.

I find them pretty limited in some areas compared to various LINUX alternatives, though, and as my photo collection started getting organized into more and more subdirectories, and started including more and more RAW photos, I became increasingly dissatisfied with them.

I've used Picasa before and wouldn't give it much more than a "cute toy for the non-enthusiast" rating, it was just too limited. Maybe it has improved a lot in a year or so, I don't know.

Under LINUX I think ones like f-spot, kphtoalbum, digikam, et. al. are promising.
Mostly I've ended up using F-spot for read-only browsing of collections split among many different directories; usually when I start tagging large collections, though, it crashes. It is OK as a browser though.

Adobe Bridge has to be one of the worst pieces of broken / buggy software (free or non-free) ever devised to be inflicted upon its users. Stay away, far, far, far away. I think they must make it so bad to make LightRoom look more appealing.

So I'd see if Faststone / Xnview / Irfanview / et. al. works for you. If not, I'd start looking at the Lightroom 30 day trial and see if that is just worlds better and perhaps worthy of a substantial investment compared to the alternatives.

Here's a link that may be of use:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...rison_of_image_viewers
 
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