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    Photo CD Cataloger for Mac

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Brain191, Jun 27, 2009.

  1. Brain191

    Brain191 Notebook Consultant

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    Anyone know of a good cataloging program for photos? Either for cataloging an external hard drive that is full or for cataloging CD's (my collection is on both). I do need to be able to do key word searches as my collection is of railroad photos :D Oh and I am kind of worried that if I happen to switch back to Windows oneday, this will all be lost, odd of finding one of these that can go both ways?

    Thanks,
    Brian
     
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    Underpantman Notebook Virtuoso

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    iPhoto is great on the Mac side... just like iTunes but for photos, but it wont work on PC.
    Cross platform you could try Picasa from google.
    Or look to Adobe photoshop elements for a paid version.
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  3. NgCir

    NgCir Notebook Consultant

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    I tried to organize an image database at my previous office. Hope I never have to attempt something similar again!

    Picasa is a good solution I think. Would likely have used this if it had been allowed for commercial use.

    I also tried ACDsee which is pretty powerful, but isn't free, and now that I think about it....not sure if there is a mac version. Adobe Bridge can also be used (this is what we ended up using), but I wouldn't recommend it. Its just not made to be the best database manager (eg. reductive keyword usage is not present)

    Really think Picasa is your best bet.
     
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    haquocdung Notebook Virtuoso

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    ACDsee is beta. and it's free atm.
     
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    Brain191 Notebook Consultant

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    I will check into Picasa and ACDsee. I don't want to put 15000+ photos into iPhone and I have Adobe Bridge and it can't do a keyword serach.

    See in windows, I added location and keywords into the Exif data and windows can search through that no problem but Mac OSX can't do the same...

    Thinking about it, does anyone know of a database program for mac? I don't need it to be just for photos, as long as it can tell me the date, I can get what folder and CD from there. Anyone know of a good, simple database program? That might work too...
     
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    Bridge does do keyword searches. Just generally not in the way you want to do keyword searches...like I said they're additive, and not reductive, among other issues (like the exif data is not one of the searchable parameters). I've thankfully forgotten most of how that database was set up, but there were a lot of issues with Bridge.
     
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