Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Steve wrote: I have been saving my images (and data ) on CD-R 's that are beginning to pile up. What PC / windows program is optimal to organize photos from multiple CD's, on the PC with a compact database of thumbnails?...... I suspect this sort of program must already exist... if not (sheeeesh) we need to get busy......thanks, ********************************* I've been trapped behind my computer for the last couple of months organizing all of my digital images.... I had several hundred images with untitled as part of their filename on my two hard drives.... and several dozen CD's I'm using Extensis Portfolio and really like the way it works..... it's not free, but quite often you get what you pay for. It is fairly easy to add searchable keywords and you can customize views, catalogs and galleries etc... You can rename files and move them easily as well. In my situation I often make CD's of images to send to various places around the world. I can put the browser software on the CD and set it up so the viewer clicks on an Icon and they can view and search through all images on the CD. I can also give them a catalog of every image I have on file, but they can only view the thumbnails, if they click to view a larger image, it will prompt them to insert the CD the original file is located on. The biggest hurdle is organizing images is designing a filename system for your images to avoid duplicates... My system is a 3 letter subject code, a 4 digit unique image code for that subject, followed by a single letter that refers to the pixel dimensions of the image. For example ELS0025R is an image of our English language service, it is image 25 and it is around 1200x1600 pixels... jpeg'd to around 1.3mb. ELS0025P is the same image as above, but is sized and compressed for a Power Point presentation and runs around 120K... E-images are something that you have to be organized or you will be reduced to tears in a short period of time if you have a lot of them.... and once you start shooting digital, it really gets insane..... I know this from experience... Duane Birkey HCJB World Radio, Quito Ecuador Duane's Photographs of Ecuador: http://ecuadorphotos.tripod.com