Photo Organizing Software

[nynaevelan]

Does anyone know of a photo organizing software that allows you to organize into Albums and search based on tag keywords, Photoshop Elements is just not cutting it??

[nohitter151]

Picasa?

[DazB]

Hi,

ACDSee

Daz

[nynaevelan]

Picasa?

Keeps locking up on me.

[nynaevelan]

Does either of these read the tags from the files? I hate learning new software.

[DazB]

Hi,

Yes.

Daz

[nynaevelan]

How, I am having trouble finding it?

[DazB]

Hi,

If you are talking about ACDSee there is no scan/add as it automatically catalogues files upon browsing. You can exclude directories.

Daz

[nynaevelan]

I am trying to work through both programs now to see which, if any, will meet my needs. Unfortunately it will take some times just to get the photos in before I can start figuring out how to organize them. Photoshop was very good with the tag organization but it sucked when it came to search through tags.

[gege]

Does anyone know of a photo organizing software that allows you to organize into Albums and search based on tag keywords?

I use (not that much, I confess) Windows Live Photo Gallery, which is very good in organizing photos. You can group them based on date, tags, folders and so on. As far as I can recall, it doesn't have an option to create Albums, but this can be easily emulated by using Tags instead. Search feature is also very powerful.

[nynaevelan]

I tried Picassa and ACDSee and while Picassa has the most of what I was looking for, it was lacking in the areas which I am familiar and happy with in Photoshop Elements. So I am currently trying the trial version of the 8.0 version, which has better search functionality than the 6.0 version has. Most likely I will just upgrade to 8.0 because I just do not have the patience to relearn a new program. I already have too many hobbies and too little time, there is no more room for another one.

But thank you all for your suggestions.