Comments on: Looking for a Photo a Tagging Application

By: Yaakov

Yaakov — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:22:39 +0000

I was surprised to not see ACDSee mentioned–this is what I have been using, powerful though with some quirks. What is your experience with this program, esp. as compared to the other programs mentioned and reviewed here?

By: M.P.W. van de Kraats

M.P.W. van de Kraats — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:35:50 +0000

Magix Foto Manager:
After (despite earlier experiences) another try with Magix,
I must say that this app does appeal to me.
The look and feel is great, and it is available in most European languages.
It handles good and has a lot of additional options in house, even face recognition, which can be used to search your pictures for a familiar face.
(Freeware version is limited to max 5 faces)
I couldn’t make out from the app help what the standard is for tagging.
It has a handy workflow and build in automatic picture correction options that give a nice result, even for people that don’t have knowledge here. (like nice option “horizon balance” : will tilt your picture to mach a horizon, which you draw over the picture)
I’d say: Magix Foto Manager is worth a try after all.
http://www.magix.com

By: M.P.W. van de Kraats

M.P.W. van de Kraats — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:58:43 +0000

PixVue 2.0.1 can be found at: http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/mmedia/PixVue.html
I didn’t try it yet, however will do after a bad experience with Magix Foto Manager (http://www.magix.com) looked good, though after starting the app, and selecting a shown picture, the app started opening IE instances, one after another without end. I had to use ctrl alt del to stop it.

So after I have some experience with PixVue, I will come back and post my results (I am not so much into standards, but looking for a simple pictuire organizer with simple straight access to picture tags (without all the menu steps in between))

By: Kelly Roon

Kelly Roon — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:16:14 +0000

I third voted for PicaJet (http://www.picajet.com). I bought it after reviewing a numerous of free and non-free photo organizers.

Here is also a useful list of the photo album software titles for anyone who still don’t yet selected his photo organizer:
http://www.photoalbumsoftwarelist.com

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 07:06:35 +0000

Check out Fastone Image Viewer (http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm). Freeware and might meet your needs. I use it as my image browser but Downloader Pro (http://www.breezesys.com/Downloader/index.htm) for embedding base IPTC info, file renaming and directory creation. Shareware. This combo works well for me.

By: C Jones

C Jones — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:55:25 +0000

I suggest Pixvue v 1.1.0. I went thru the same experience a few years back. Unfortunately Pixvue seems to have dissappeared, but I searched and found here: http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/PixVue-Download-16160.html

Good luck, crj

By: Kent

Kent — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:07:57 +0000

Just wanted to confirm your choice of PicaJet. I, too, want a standards-based tagging system so I can share photos with others.

I bought PicaJet and after a couple of days, I’m pleased with the results. I’m still trying to figure out the best way to embed metadata to cover tags (aka keywords) and put a caption (aka Title or Description) on the photo. PicaJet does a great job with keywords and appears to support all the metadata caption fields as well.

For example, it seems that EXIF metadata might be the best place to put a picture caption, since Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Digital Image Suite and Picasa can read EXIF data. IPTC isn’t as well supported and then there is XMP from Adobe that I can do without.

One interesting thing about PicaJet: when I download tagged files, it doesn’t put anything in the caption, but there is a command to create a caption from one of the metadata fields.

I’ve tried Picasa to share pictures, but I can’t share video clips on Picasa without using the Picasa app. My camera does a great job with stills, still sequences (rapid fire shutter) and video clips in AVI format.

I’m going to try the Fotki service that PicaJet supports and see if I can share video clips as well as stills.

I submitted a suggestion to the PicaJet folks to put captions in multiple EXIF and IPTC fields, so that anyone else who downloads the photo has a good chance of getting my caption.

Thanks a bunch for the decrapifier.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:30:10 +0000

Thanks Jeff! digiKam looks to do EXACTLY what I want! Regarding the standards thing, I just searched through the docs and found this:

“Tags are stored in a database for fast access, and, the applied tags are written into IPTC data fields of the image (at least for JPEG). So can use your tags with other programs or, on case of loss of that data in the database, the tags will be re-imported when the image is noticed by digiKam.”

I’ve got SUSE running on a VM, so I’ll give it a try.

By: Jeff Schiller

Jeff Schiller — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:36:56 +0000

I was looking for something awhile back to do this too and found that digiKam (already installed on my Suse box) did the job adequately, but no idea about the standards thing…