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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is it so hard to find a decent image organizer?
« Last post by Jibz on April 06, 2010, 09:04 AM »I think what surprises me here is the distribution of prices.
There are some excellent freeware viewers, and even good freeware catalogers (Farstone seems decent, although I was a bit surprised you cannot donate less than $10 in their donate what you want form
). However none of these have decent support for tagging (IPTC etc. support), or the few that support it have only very rough filtering support so the tags don't do you much good.
The ones that actually do offer decent tagging and filtering capabilities all of a sudden bump to $150 and up.
It doesn't seem like the kind of functionality that is so hard to develop that it justifies that kind of cost increase, but that might just be me.
Just for reference, here is what I (think I) am looking for:
There are some excellent freeware viewers, and even good freeware catalogers (Farstone seems decent, although I was a bit surprised you cannot donate less than $10 in their donate what you want form
). However none of these have decent support for tagging (IPTC etc. support), or the few that support it have only very rough filtering support so the tags don't do you much good.The ones that actually do offer decent tagging and filtering capabilities all of a sudden bump to $150 and up.
It doesn't seem like the kind of functionality that is so hard to develop that it justifies that kind of cost increase, but that might just be me.
Just for reference, here is what I (think I) am looking for:
- Store thumbnails in a database or similar to provide fast browsing (i.e. must not reread image folder every time you browse)
- Support annotation and tagging using a standard method (IPTC/XMP/...) (i.e. not storing it in some proprietary file that no other program can read, and provide no export option)
- Decent searching and filtering on any metadata, including full support for multiple conditions
- Non-destructive, must not change the original image data in any way without explicitly being told to
- I don't particularly care much for editing functions (I have dedicated software for that), but if present they much be non-destructive
- Preferably a dedicated piece of software, and not an image editor with a half-hearted cataloger stapled on
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.. I am thoroughly amazed!
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