Photo Organizing Software (1 Viewer)

[PIK95]

I need to get some photo organizing software this morning for the new Acer Labtop.  I need something that won't compress on import.  I also have over 100k of photos, with many that were imported using old software.  Many were imported as duplicates, assigning different Id numbers for the same picture.  There must be software that goes by the original photo ID, right?  I don't mind paying if it does both of these things.  Tia as always.

 

[PIK95]

Picassa is on its way out fwiw.  I can't figure out where this info is on Red it.  Help!

 

[PIK95]

Looking at Fhotoroom.  The editing part looks great, but I'm not sure if it saves and organizes your pictures like Picassa did.  This is frustrating.

 

[Mr. Ected]

Haven't used it in a while (on Mac now) but look at ACDSee.

 

[Don Quixote]

I use Lightroom.

 

[PIK95]

I use Lightroom.

I just realized Google photo is decent for organizing.   I think I will be getting Light room soon.

 

[FreeBaGeL]

If you can live with SaaS then Lightroom+Photoshop for $10/mo is hard to beat.  If you don't care about PS or having the latest and greatest for editing than the standalone versions of LR are pretty reasonably priced by now.

 

[glvsav37]

I use google photos and pay the $2 or whatever it is a month for the unlimited, uncompressed uploads.

I did it b/c I already run google for business and like the overall suite, IMO I don't think it is going away anytime and most importantly, I have it set to auto upload any picts from my phone.

The last is the main reason I did it. Having to upgrade iPhones and under the new plans where you have to turn them in on the spot, I needed something beside the crappy iTunes backup to make sure i didnt lose any of my photos.

that said, I dig it b/c i like the face and location recognition they have built in.  Yea, i'm prob contributing to the real world Minority Report, but they have so much dirt on me anyway, whats the sense in fighting it.

My only beef is that I wish i could post to social media from there vs just my phone's camera roll. (unless there is a way and I didnt figure it out yet)

 

[Mr. Ected]

I use google photos and pay the $2 or whatever it is a month for the unlimited, uncompressed uploads.

I did it b/c I already run google for business and like the overall suite, IMO I don't think it is going away anytime and most importantly, I have it set to auto upload any picts from my phone.

The last is the main reason I did it. Having to upgrade iPhones and under the new plans where you have to turn them in on the spot, I needed something beside the crappy iTunes backup to make sure i didnt lose any of my photos.

that said, I dig it b/c i like the face and location recognition they have built in.  Yea, i'm prob contributing to the real world Minority Report, but they have so much dirt on me anyway, whats the sense in fighting it.

My only beef is that I wish i could post to social media from there vs just my phone's camera roll. (unless there is a way and I didnt figure it out yet)

Not that it's too big of a deal, you can set your iPhone to automatically sync your photos to a Mac.

 

[IrishTwinkie]

Lightroom is outstanding for organization. I suspect you do not shoot RAW, but it is outstanding for RAW processing as well. It will find suspected dupes on import.

 

[PlayaHata]

I use google photos and pay the $2 or whatever it is a month for the unlimited, uncompressed uploads.

I did it b/c I already run google for business and like the overall suite, IMO I don't think it is going away anytime and most importantly, I have it set to auto upload any picts from my phone.

The last is the main reason I did it. Having to upgrade iPhones and under the new plans where you have to turn them in on the spot, I needed something beside the crappy iTunes backup to make sure i didnt lose any of my photos.

that said, I dig it b/c i like the face and location recognition they have built in.  Yea, i'm prob contributing to the real world Minority Report, but they have so much dirt on me anyway, whats the sense in fighting it.

My only beef is that I wish i could post to social media from there vs just my phone's camera roll. (unless there is a way and I didnt figure it out yet)

This is very helpful.  I was a huge Picasa fan, but hadn't really played around with Google Photos yet.  I'll give it a shot.

 

[El Floppo]

:dot:

picassa is a goner?  

 

[PlayaHata]

:dot:

picassa is a goner?  

Yep.  You can still technically run the desktop application, but it will no longer be updated.  More info here - https://picasa.google.com/

 

[PIK95]

Lightroom is outstanding for organization. I suspect you do not shoot RAW, but it is outstanding for RAW processing as well. It will find suspected dupes on import.

I shoot at the highest quality available always.  I never took a class and I'm not trained, but I'm really good at getting nice shots.  The lighting is the hardest part for me.  I have hundreds of gigs of pictures that is a nightmare to organize. Not exactly sure how RAW plays into it, but if it's a lossless type thing, I probably do it.

 

[17seconds]

Everybody loves Lightroom but it drove me nuts when I tried it

 

[glvsav37]

I shoot at the highest quality available always.  I never took a class and I'm not trained, but I'm really good at getting nice shots.  The lighting is the hardest part for me.  I have hundreds of gigs of pictures that is a nightmare to organize. Not exactly sure how RAW plays into it, but if it's a lossless type thing, I probably do it.

RAW is a capture setting (that you set before you start shooting) that captures the most amount of data and saves it into a huge ### file. Then when you go to process the photo on your computer, when you open it, it allows you to go in and tweak setting like F-stop, aperture, temperature and a whole lot more. It will let you complete change the photo from its original capture before you even bring it into your photo editing application. It is awesome for people who like to noodle with their shots, but they take up a ton of room and you can't preview the shot before opening it. So you normally set it to have a companion jpg generated along with it for previewing and editing down a shoot.  

Plus, it always shoot very large (length and width) so it allows you to blow up an image with better quality then your typical .tiff or .jpeg.

most of my commercial photographers shoot in raw b/c it gives us the most flexibility on the design side. 

 

[IrishTwinkie]

RAW is basically the data straight from the sensor. Before any JPG convertion happens, either by the camera itself or some software. As noted above, it results in a large amount of data. Most cheap, online photo suites can't handle it. Or at least they couldn't when I was asking myself the same question you are now. I found LightRoom and haven't looked back.

 

[PIK95]

I definitely do it raw mostly. 

 

[PIK95]

I can't decide whether I should buy the 9.99 a month lightroom or stand alone lightroom 6. I do use my mobile alot and like how the google transfers stuff back and forth.  Thoughts?

 

[PIK95]

I can't believe how great this lightroom is.  Paid the $9.99 a month for everything, and even got it on my phone.  The one thing I can't figure out is how to import pics from Google photos into lightroom.  Maybe tonight.