Flexible Photo Organization Software?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday November 21, 2006 @04:41AM from the you'd-think-they'd-have-stuff-with-these-features dept.

Matthew Wecksell asks: "Several years after getting a digital camera, I find myself with far too many pictures to keep track of, with multiple folders titled 'At the Beach' and so on. Picassa will not let me assign multiple labels to a picture and then search against those labels the way iTunes will with my music (eg: Show me all pictures with '"Grandma Foo" and not "Grandma Bar"' to find pics that have just one of my two grandmothers). Also, I'd like to find a solution that lets me export the meta data or keep it in the picture files, not a proprietary database, so that in ten or twenty years, I can use another program on another platform and still have useful tags assigned to my pictures that I'm taking today — I have no interest in re-tagging my pics. Has anyone found a good solution to the picture organization problem? Is there any standard 'ID3' style for putting metadata into an EXIF header?"

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Re:Good luck by friedmud · 2006-11-21 06:11 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Everytime this comes up I cringe.

You people _do_ know that iTunes can rip to MP3 just as well as AAC right? Sure MP3 isn't the default, but it takes all of 5 seconds to change. I use iTunes this way... and when I'm in Linux Amarok automatically pics up my iTunes MP3's... CD art, artist name, genre and all.

iTunes really isn't satan... I swear.

Friedmud