A File-Centric Photo Manager?

JeremyDuffy writes "I have a photo project of over 7,000 photos. I want to tag them based on location, time of day, who's in them, etc. Doing this by hand one at a time through the Windows 7 interface in Explorer is practically madness. There has to be a better way. Is there a photo manager that can easily group and manage file tags? And most importantly, something that stores the tag and other data (description etc.) in the file, not just a database? I don't care if the thing has a database, but the data must be in the file so when I upload the files to the Internet, the tags are in place."

Re:Google Picassa

[icebraining]

I second Picasa, and it works fine under Wine too.

Re:Windows Live Photo Gallery

[molecular]

can't seem to find linux-version

Re:Windows Live Photo Gallery

[Anonymous Coward]

can't seem to find linux-version

He doesn't want a GPL Linux version because if he uses it, his photos become derivative works and therefore he loses all ownership of his photos, his camera, his computer, and everything that he photographed becomes GPL'd which means, if the guy photographed his girlfriend, all of the FOSS community has to sleep with her.

Mods, this is a fight between Trolls, go mod something worthwhile.

If you are serious about pictures

[retardpicnic]

What you really need to do is this. Buy a couple plaid shirts, some black socks and some Birks but make sure you pay a lot for them. Get some capri pants at the GAP (make sure you pay full price). Next, get some patchouli scented shave lotion and a Mac(don't worry...you will pay full price for this and we have begun. Go home set up your make and get changed, you are now a Mac owner! You will find that tagging, sorting,arranging via meta data is easy. Its living that has become hard. Now you must tag everything using iambic pantameter and haiku. Instead of tagging things buy the current dating system use what day of the BP disaster it is. If your wife asks you what you are doing, try to be condescending... no one understands you anymore but steve. While tagging your photos try to use the words postmodern and neo a lot. it will begin to feel natural soon... Good luck! A new mac user| so fragile and delicate| like leaves on a breeze

Re:If you are serious about pictures

[SanityInAnarchy]

A simple Haiku
won't excuse a trollish joke.
Sorry, dude, nice try.

Re:Google Picassa

[Kitkoan]

I second Picasa, and it works fine under Wine too.

Works well under beer and vodka too. Editing those pictures can truly become a night to remember... even if you don't remember it the next morning

Re:Windows Live Photo Gallery

[Yert]

He drafted the comment in MS Word, which spellchecked and autocorrected "linux" as "Windows". Nothing to see here, move along...

Two possibilities

[VernonNemitz]

On your own system you could simply take advantage of Long File Names to associate a modest amount of data with an image. If you really want the data inside the file, though, then almost any image-manipulation tool will let you do that. Take "good old Microsoft Paint" for example. You can take an image that is, say, 300x400 pixels and paste it into a completely blank image where you have specified a size of 300x500 pixels. Your original image now occupies the upper part of this new image, and you have 300x100 pixels, below that image, where you can draw stuff or use the Text tool to type stuff. Then simply save it.

Re:Google Picassa

[mattcsn]

Picasa's face-recognition problems aren't limited to identical twins; my brother is constantly mis-tagged as his twin sister. She and I find it utterly hilarious, he doesn't.

Re:Windows Live Photo Gallery

[Noughmad]

can't seem to find car-version

It's a Car Analogy Disguise!

[Tetsujin]

can't seem to find car-version

I can do better than that! I'd like to present the transformers analogy - it's like a car analogy, but it changes into a robot analogy!

Let's say the GPL and MPEG LA are both kind of like jeeps - both are utilitarian enough to help you accomplish quite a lot, but they can be rather unwieldy, too. We could say that GPL is more like the old army jeep and its relatives - it gives you access to a lot of things but it comes with its own hindrances. But you have the opportunity to pick through what's out there, perhaps finding something useful and affordable, or at least salvageable. MPEG-LA is more like the XR311 or HMMWV - it gives you a lot more capability but with a correspondingly higher price.

Now, when they turn into robots - GPL is like a force for good. It's the result of a conscientious effort to change the world for the better. However, to accomplish its aims it has to use its leverage - some would say this is a sort of trickery, drawing people in to use GPL software and then snaring them with obligations. In robot terms this would be like projecting holograms to fool people into doing certain things.

MPEG-LA is, of course, much more profit-minded. Perhaps it's not really "evil" though some people might say it is - but it's generally serving its own ends. It's important to note that the MPEG-LA is really just one part of a larger system... To return to the robot analogy, it's as though the MPEG-LA were part of a team that could combine to form a bigger robot, with the MPEG-LA acting as an arm or a leg, while other intellectual property groups could form the other limbs and the torso. Together, they would form a massive digital media powerhouse.