Looking for a Picture Management Program#

[Chris G]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 04:39:23PM -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 07/06/2008 02:25 PM, Chris G wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 03:49:03PM +0200, John L Fjellstad wrote:
> >> Chris G <cl at isbd.net> writes:
> >> 
> >> > I know digikam has other 'views' (by date and by collection) but using
> >> > these you lose all of the album names.  I want to be able to name my
> >> > albums with meaningful names (e.g. "Spain, holiday") but keep them in
> >> > chronological order.  This seems such an obvious thng to want to do
> >> > that it amazes me that there isn't an image management program out
> >> > there that can do it.
> >> 
> >> Have you tried tagging the pictures?  WhenI look at my tags in digiKam,
> >> I get it by tag, and sub view by album name and date.
> >> 
> > I do use tagging in digikam but I don't see how it helps much in
> > getting what I want as described above.
> > 
> > Are you suggesting that I tag images with their date or what exactly?
> > 
> > For example if I want to see pictures/images for, say, October 1987
> > how would I tag them so that I see that in October 1987 I have images for:-
> > 
> >     The horses in the orchard
> >     Holiday in Venice
> >     Maxine for publicity
> > 
> > ?
> > 
> 
> You might want to have a look at Google's Picasa; you can sort by name,
> date, or size. You can also drag & drop photos from one folder to
> another etc.
> 
> http://picasa.google.com/
>   http://picasa.google.com/features/index.html
>     http://picasa.google.com/linux/
> 
> Note: picasa installs it's own wine backend & some have reported better
> luck with running the windows version via wine directly.
> 
I used picasa for a while and quite liked it, however it has a virtual
folder system that doesn't map directly onto the real folders where
the images are.  Using *real* folders/directories for the album
structure is important for me as I want to be able to manipulate the
files directly myself as well as via the photo management program. 
Digikam allows me to do this with no problems at all.

I may go and take another look at picasa, I have vmware on my machine
so I can run the Windows version directly.  It may have improved since
I last used it.

-- 
Chris Green