[Leica] Leica Off Topic Question. What program to use for non photographers to manage, view and catagorize photographs?

[Tina Manley]

Lightroom is the best choice by far.

Tina

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 1:37 PM, Mister Guy via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

>
>  I have spent my summer doing Volunteer work for our local County
> Historical Society . That would be the Macon County Historical
> Society(Missouri).  There is a FB page in case anyone is curious.  Our
> musuem obtained a large collection of Glass Plate negatives.  Most are from
> 1915-1935 from a studio run by a local photographer named Aura Roach.  I
> have recreated my own digital interpretations of these negatives and have
> about 1200 more to work with before my part of the project is finished.  I
> estimate the total number of glass plate pictures will be around 5,500 to
> 6,000.
>
> The next step will be to come up with a program that can work mostly on
> Windows 10 or UBUNTU that can manage the collection.  I hope to be able to
> catagorize portraits, noting differences between Child, baby, adult male,
> adult female, elderly man etc.  Also there are place photographs, houses,
> buildings locations etc.  Finally there are also pictures of objects,
> things ranging from crime evidence to apples being sliced up for making
> cider.
>
> What free program can I use to manage this collection?  Again it should be
> Windows friendly.
>
> curtisbliss at yahoo.com in case you want to reply directly to me.
>
> Thanks for any and all input!
>
> Curtis
>
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