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Roger Ramjet

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Hi, I'm after recommendations for software (preferably freeware) which will aid my workflow when first downloading photos from camera to PC. All I'm looking for is something to do the following:

- Copy files from camera / memory card reader into folder on PC, creating the folder with a sensible name (eg today's date)
- allow me to tag keepers / rejects as I review the photos one by one
- allow resizing of the keepers into a separate folder for emailing without destroying the picture quality (like XP image resizer power toy) or vastly increasing the filesize (as some plugins for Adobe products seem to).

What I'm not looking for is something to load my photos onto the web (eg Picassa) or anything incorporating retouching, image editing or other fancy and expensive features. I don't have photoshop at the moment due to my hard disc on my main PC dying, so nothing based around a photoshop plugin or extension thanks.

I've looked but have come unstuck because there's a lot out there which is aimed at pro photographers (not me!) with pro features and pro pricetags. What I want is something cheap and simple and I'm sure it's out there but I don't know where.

Any recommendations please?
 
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Thanks KC and Lesco. I had dismissed Picasa because I don't want to use their web album features but KC's post prompted me to have a proper look at it and it's actually quite powerful. I think I'll give it a try for a while and see how I get on.
 
I really need to organsie my photos too would you guys recomened Lightroom 2.2 over Picassa?
 
Just about any prog is easier to organise with than Lightroom. As well as those already mentioned, have a look at FastStone Image Viewer.
 
MisterE said:
Just about any prog is easier to organise with than Lightroom. As well as those already mentioned, have a look at FastStone Image Viewer.
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Lightroom is my fav. I hate when software does things behind the scenes like itunes. It make it hard to find anything in the end.

I organise files by topic and by location or even date in separate folders. LR easily maintains a huge and healthy library.
 
My vote would go to Lightroom too. Its very easy to use, easy to search and find your photos providing you keyword them on import.

Has the added benefit of being able to do 90% of your editing in Lightroom as well.
 
antc said:
easy to search and find your photos providing you keyword them on import.
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And there we are.......the first problem. "providing you keyword". Fancy keywording 50,000+ photos?

antc said:
.......on import.
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And there's the second on....import. Again, why should you have to "import" 10, 20, 50,000 or more photos to be able to organise your photos? My photos drive is holding about 1.6TB - many tens of thousands of photos. How big a catalogue is that going to produce, have to be managed, and cause LR to slow down?

There are numerous programs which require no importing, no keywording [but can if required] and carry out the basics of moving, renaming etc anywhere and anything on your pc plus more, much cheaper than LR, which is what the OP Roger asked for.

Similar to the free Faststone already mentioned, there's the similar looking but paid for ACDSee which has a few more capabilities and suits me better than anything else on the market. It's not without its flaws but I've stuck with it for many years now.

http://store.acdsee.com/store/acd/en_US/DisplayProductDetailsPage/productID.178981500?resid=TSSqBAoHArEAAEi@v@kAAAAa&rests=1294248452195
 
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