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Wycliffe writes Like many people, I am starting to get a huge collection of digital photos from family vacations, etc. I am looking for some software that allows me to rate/tag my own photos in a quick way. I really don't want to spend the time tagging a bunch of photos and then be locked into a single piece of software, so what is the best software to help organize and tag photos so that I can quickly find highlights without being locked into that software for life? I would prefer open source to prevent lock-in and also prefer Linux but could do Windows if necessary.
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A database (sqlite would do fine), a little Python (sqlite included), an image display program (painless if we're talking jpeg/gig/png, might be knotty for RAW DSLR images) and thou.
Open source, features up to you, no lock in because you can export it to any format you're willing to take the time to fool with. Best environment for this kind of undertaking is a web browser and some CGI, both of which, under linux as you prefer, are easily handled.
Image organization is a pretty minimal undertaking, if that's all one is really really after. The database will do the vast majority of the work. Just make sure you provide fields for everything that matters to you, or might matter to you, and then USE them.
Ubuntu, for one, has everything you need for the jpg/png/gif case built right in. RAW DSLR, as mentioned, will require some work.
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Just name your files well.
Mine are all called DSCNxxxx.JPG.
Print them all and put them in labelled shoeboxes.
But those are all from your trip to Disney in China, right?
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Yep. Why make up all this crap about family and vacations and shit??
Everyone knows it's for a porn collection. Hell, I face the same dilemma. How do you automatically detect and delete duplicate images?
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