Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Does anyone have an easy to use photo database program to recommend? How >do the professional photographers on the LUG catalog their slides after >scanning? We use Extensis Fetch (now "Portfolio") on a Mac. It has some slightly non-standard commands, but otherwise is stable and fairly fast. The catalog I use has more than 13,000 jpeg'd images in it dating from the end of 1995. It catalogs just about any image format, sounds, movies, and text. Fetch/Portfolio will automatically catalog a whole disk or folder of images. It does not extract caption information (Photoshop's File Info), but does extract keywords entered into Photoshop's File Info window. One can also add keywords to an image or group of images in the Fetch catalog. Good keywords are the key to keeping track of a large number of images. Spend some time coming up with a consistent and specific set of keywords. - -Jack Milton http://www.agate.net/~jmilton/index.html