mskin Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 we have tens of thousands of photos on our server. whats the best way to categorize these images? i wonder if there is a program that allows users to add keywords to photos as they find them useful, and they can be searched for later based on the key words. these key word searches should be available to everyones machine through the network. i'd love some input on how to make our huge photo collection more easily accessible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 MANY apps can do this. Apple's aperature comes to mind and I think Adobe has a competing product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koper Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Lightroom is a gr8 app for keywording photos as it is adaptive - http://www.photoshopuser.com/lightroom2/ -- check the Matt.K Keyword improvements video (right top) , but you'll find one small prob, its not to be used over a server thus you'll have to sit down and keyword everything in one go and then export the library and use and app that allows for keyword search (XMP search) like Itag if that is a search app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bwana Kahawa Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 We started looking at something called Fotoware (http://www.fotoware.com). Seems to do the job - only problem is you have to index the server which slows the whole thing down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 I second Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankg813 Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Hi, Google's Picassa has tagging capabilities (basic) too...and it's free Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mskin Posted November 12, 2008 Author Share Posted November 12, 2008 Thanks for input. I noticed that pica has a keyword feature…. Nice. Bridge also has a similar keyword feature and it seams to be a bit more advanced than Picas, but picas interface in my opinion is pretty quick. I was able to browse thousands of photos in minutes. Question… upon labeling a photo with a key word, will others on other machines be able to query that information? Do you guys see any pitfalls to one or the other? Im looking at these programs as a way to manage my assets without completely reorganizing the server (or creating duplicate images) which is something that really doesn’t benefit everyone in the firm because it would only cater to my needs. Im also looking at promoting this to the marketing department as a way to categorize images in ways inconsistent with the directory structure, a structure that adequately organizes our photos but limits quick retrieval of images. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 From a scalability and longevity standpoint, you might want to consider an app that supports writing the meta data to sidecar files. (just an XML file) which will allow you to move info across platforms in the future. Putting data into a proprietary database or into the image itself, will be problematic if you decide to change things up in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Here is some more info on the XMP format: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/XMP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidecar_file Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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