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Photo Browsing/Database software - opinions/recommendations?
David Hudson, Photographer
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Redondo Beach | CA | USA | Posted: 2:26 PM on 09.22.04 |
->> Ok, I just made the move to the Mac, and I've got a few extra $$ and wanted to investigate the Photo Browser/Database software that's out there. My previous workflow was using Photoshop 7 on the PC for pretty much everything - used the file browser in PS just a little bit because the PC was too slow to make it practical.
I predominantly shoot JPEG's, but would like to mess with some of the RAW stuff as well eventually - I shoot Nikon but don't have Capture or View or anything like that.
I would like to use something to help with the quick editing and classification of images, as well as something that will help to do some primitive sort of search of image meta data further down the road. Here's the short list of products I've come up with:
Photo Mechanic: using a demo of this, and it seems pretty good. Does anyone know if there is a difference between the version on the Camera Bits site and the Lexar site?
FotoTrafiX: read the recent article here about this, and it seems like it has potential, but seems like it might not be quite ready for primetime yet.
iView Media Pro: also looks like it might have potential...
Extensis Portfolio: thoughts on this?
Photoshop CS: I just moved up to this as well and haven't had a chance to fully dive into it yet - any new features here that make the others irrelevant?
Sorry for the long post! Any thoughts or opinions are welcomed! |
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Sean Harding, Photographer, Assistant
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Seattle | WA | USA | Posted: 2:30 PM on 09.22.04 |
| ->> I use iView Media Pro for cataloging and I'm very happy with it. However, I don't use it for any kind of editing or up front browsing, really. I just use it to keep track of my archive discs so I can find images later when I need them. |
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Greg Ferguson, Photographer
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Scottsdale | Az | USA | Posted: 4:37 PM on 09.22.04 |
->> Photo Mechanic is a great tool for the initial browsing/editing/IPTC captioning step.
iView Media Pro is great for cataloging and searching.
I prefer Nikon View for my copy-from-CF-card step because it seems to be faster than Photo Mechanic, though typically I have PM do a few other steps at the same time (like populate the IPTC template). I also like how it'll rotate in place so I don't have to copy the files to another folder like PM does.
There's a few other packages we'll dig out for certain steps, but those are the ones we're in the most besides Photoshop. |
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Bob Croslin, Photographer
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St. Petersburg | FL | USA | Posted: 9:09 AM on 09.23.04 |
->> I used Iview for a long time until I had somewhere in the neighborhood of about 100 gigs of images and then Iview just couldn't keep up. I tried Portfolio and it just wasn't robust enough to deal with that size of an archive. I finally settled on Cumulus. Cumulus is robust and scalable. It does everything you'll need it to do and for only $99. Best of all, it catalogued all of my images without repeatedly crashing like Portfolio.
http://www.canto.com/ |
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