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nransom
25th of September 2005 (Sun), 13:01
I am going to be working on a project archiving thousands of digital photos and need a good photo organizing/database software. Does anyone have any experience with good software? I have tried Adobe's Album but it is too goofy to have hundreds of tags. Any other suggestions? Price is not really an issue.


Thanks a million,
chris.bailey
25th of September 2005 (Sun), 13:20
Extensis portfolio is good as it allows you to keep a track of material that is off-line and is robust enough to handle hundreds of thousands of images. Does have some quirks though and the user interface is not the frienliest around.
Scottes
25th of September 2005 (Sun), 20:07
I use iMatch and it does what I need and a lot more. Inexpensive ($50 I think) and easily handles my ~11,000 (6,000 RAWs and another 5,000+ processed images). Easy to use, but still allows fairly complex things to be done.
mguffin
28th of November 2010 (Sun), 07:19
Aperture
mrgooch
28th of November 2010 (Sun), 09:44
Lightroom 3
tonylong
28th of November 2010 (Sun), 12:40
I sincerely hope the OP has found some sort of answer by now...:)!
chauncey
28th of November 2010 (Sun), 12:44
:lol: Elvis has left the building! :lol:
tonylong
28th of November 2010 (Sun), 13:04
Well, maybe I could make one contribution -- in '05 I started on Elements 4, I believe, and played with the organizer...but at the time I wasn't managing 10's of thousands of photos. Things have gone rapidly downhill since then, I'm afraid...
R1200GS
28th of November 2010 (Sun), 13:58
Extensis portfolio is good as it allows you to keep a track of material that is off-line and is robust enough to handle hundreds of thousands of images. Does have some quirks though and the user interface is not the frienliest around.

+1 on Pordolio. We currently have about 85 thousand images on the server at work. Portfolio works great.
R1200GS
28th of November 2010 (Sun), 14:02
I sincerely hope the OP has found some sort of answer by now...:)!

D'oh. I never look at post date. :rolleyes:
danpass
28th of November 2010 (Sun), 14:22
I sincerely hope the OP has found some sort of answer by now...:)!
I'm sure he has.

This is only demonstrates that someone used the search function first; which is great by me :D
Scottes
30th of November 2010 (Tue), 11:12
Since this got necro'd, I have switched to Lightroom just for convenience. I think iMatch is far better, but it never was part of a workflow.