Hi,

I've finally bought my first digital camera and want some software to
manage all the images on my harddrive. Which would you all recommend?

thanks

Ian

"Blonks" wrote in message
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Hi,

I've finally bought my first digital camera and want some software to
manage all the images on my harddrive. Which would you all recommend?

thanks

Ian

I use Thumbs Plus 5.01 there now into 6 something This is good upto pro
photographer standing based around a Access data base. But there is a
freebee from Google there's thing's like ACDC, Photo albums from Adobe and
Corel in fact 2 from Corel now they have Jasc. Many are given away free on
comp mags discs I have an Extensis portfolio on one that would cost an arm
and a leg.

I have used acdsee for years and find it to be brilliant...the new version
has loads of management features on it..

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:49:39 +0100, Blonks wrote:

I've finally bought my first digital camera and want some software to
manage all the images on my harddrive. Which would you all recommend?

Windows XP allows you to store your pictures in folders and has a
convenient Thumbnail view option. There's a pretty good Search
function built-in. What other functions do you require?

On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 10:31:47 +0100, Laurence Payne
wrote:

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:49:39 +0100, Blonks wrote:

I've finally bought my first digital camera and want some software to
manage all the images on my harddrive. Which would you all recommend?

Windows XP allows you to store your pictures in folders and has a
convenient Thumbnail view option. There's a pretty good Search
function built-in. What other functions do you require?


Thanks to all who replied.

I've gone with the Google one, Picassa 2. Its very nice and does all I
need for free.




--

'What we have here is a failure to communicate'

"Laurence Payne" wrote in message

Windows XP allows you to store your pictures in folders and has a
convenient Thumbnail view option....

The problem I have with XP is that it locks the "thumbs.db" system file
while building the thumbnail images - so if you want to delete a whole
directory when it hasn't finished that job (there's no obvious indication
that's what it's doing) then it gives you an access denied message. You then
can't delete the directory until after the next restart!

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:11:07 GMT, "G Hardy"
wrote:

"Laurence Payne" wrote in message

Windows XP allows you to store your pictures in folders and has a
convenient Thumbnail view option....

The problem I have with XP is that it locks the "thumbs.db" system file
while building the thumbnail images - so if you want to delete a whole
directory when it hasn't finished that job (there's no obvious indication
that's what it's doing) then it gives you an access denied message. You then
can't delete the directory until after the next restart!




Well, yes. But unless its a huge number of picture files in one
directory, it doesn't take THAT long to make the thumbnails. And if
you can instruct a program to sort your pictures into different
categories, isn't that exactly the same as just putting them in
different folders yourself?

Come to that, the indexing program, if it displays thumbnails (and it
wouldn't be much use if it didn't) will probably take just as long to
create them for a folder of pictures as Windows would :-)

Very often these dinky little programs are just a complicated way of
doing what Windows would do very simply :-)

Laurence Payne wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:11:07 GMT, "G Hardy"
wrote:


"Laurence Payne" wrote in message

Windows XP allows you to store your pictures in folders and has a
convenient Thumbnail view option....

The problem I have with XP is that it locks the "thumbs.db" system file
while building the thumbnail images - so if you want to delete a whole
directory when it hasn't finished that job (there's no obvious indication
that's what it's doing) then it gives you an access denied message. You then
can't delete the directory until after the next restart!





Well, yes. But unless its a huge number of picture files in one
directory, it doesn't take THAT long to make the thumbnails. And if
you can instruct a program to sort your pictures into different
categories, isn't that exactly the same as just putting them in
different folders yourself?

Come to that, the indexing program, if it displays thumbnails (and it
wouldn't be much use if it didn't) will probably take just as long to
create them for a folder of pictures as Windows would :-)

Very often these dinky little programs are just a complicated way of
doing what Windows would do very simply :-)

I agree, and I don't trust those programs not to lose some of my photos. At
least if I'm using windows explorer to organise my files I know exactly where
they are. ALthough once the thumbnails were not showing me what the files
actually were.

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:55:07 GMT, Ben Thomas
wrote:

I agree, and I don't trust those programs not to lose some of my photos. At
least if I'm using windows explorer to organise my files I know exactly where
they are. ALthough once the thumbnails were not showing me what the files
actually were.

How did you manage to confuse the Thumbnails system? Were you
renaming files?

"Laurence Payne" wrote in message

How did you manage to confuse the Thumbnails system? Were you
renaming files?

Sometimes, thumbnails don't show (you just get the icon).

I've had situations where the wrong program icons are shown for files (only
happens on my Photoshop PC).