Capture 1 vs Photoshop CS2 vs Digital Photo Professional for RAW processing

Scottes, I use PSE3 Organizer to catalog but it doesn't support RAW and converted images easily (ie if I want to tag the converted image to match the orig RAW I have to manually apply the tags again)

I have just had a quick look at the iMatch website, it looks v good!! How do you find it for cataloguing?? I might try the free demo!

I like it quite a bit. Relatively inexpensive, quite a lot of support for scripting, RAW, EXIF, searching, sorting, labeling, ranking.... It does not do everything for you - adding selected EXIF fields takes a bit of work for example (15-30 minutes maybe). I like it for it's extensibility, not it's ease really, since I can do a lot of programming/scripting around it. Out of the box it needs a little work to do some common things, but not unbearably so, and you don't need to know how to program to get it done. Plus it has *extensive* reminders & help and a forum, so it's learnable. The price is right - similar stuff is 4 or 5 times the price.

One thing that I like is to be able to do queries, like showing all wildlife images taken with the 100-400 at ISO 100 and a minimum of 1/500 shutter. You might not get to this point the first night, but it's not rocket science.

Scottes,

sounds good - is that query system based on a GUI or is it a SQL-type thing? Can you copy tags/keywords from one image to another or batch of others?

I tried them all and was a be fan of C1. I am currently using RSP, because I like them work flow. All the ones you mention are good, it is the work flow that you should look at. As of now RSP has the best one that fits me.

Bill

GUI-based, but I do believe that you can build complicated SQL-ish queries.

I don't know about the copy part.

Thanks for the feedback, my interest is piqued now, will have to download the demo version and see