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Photography Central
What Picture Organizing software do you use?

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Knight Rider
Reid Jones

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 11:29 am

PRO Level 17

Joined: 28 Jul 2005
Posts: 2182
Location: CANADA...EH!

I'm looking into buying Photoshop Elements 5.0. Does anyone have it? Right now i use just the windows My Pictures folder manually with the windows picture transfer wizard.

What do you use?

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phileysmiley
Larry Richman

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 3:03 pm

Media Director

Joined: 21 Jun 2004
Posts: 37439
Location: Philadelphia PA USA

Photoshop Album. It's way cheaper than Elements but does pretty much what most people need to do. smilenod

I love it.

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fireman604

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 4:39 pm

PRO Level 3

Joined: 20 Jun 2006
Posts: 78
Location: Homer Ak

I have both elements 5 and photoshop album. Album does a better job it is manual and starter edition is free. Elements 5 will take over from album but does not show all the thumb nails . some of mine work beautifully with album but are to big for elements. hope that helps.

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SmokeYou

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 7:17 pm

PRO Level 13

Joined: 09 May 2004
Posts: 710
Location: Southern Colorado

i have used photoshop elements and album but they bolth are nothing compared to adobe cs2 well that is if you can afford it

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fireman604

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 7:24 pm

PRO Level 3

Joined: 20 Jun 2006
Posts: 78
Location: Homer Ak

I also use photoshop cs. the question is which album or organizer was used. For editing photos photoshop lets you do more but the down side is the learning curve. elements does much of the same. with less of a learning curve, elements tends to try to take control when down loading pictures just matter of preference.

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imnuts

Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 11:21 pm

Support Team

Joined: 24 Mar 2004
Posts: 14585
Location: Boothwyn, Pennsylvania

I've been using Picasa for managing my pictures, mainly because i can upload it to my web album courtesy of google smile

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fireman604

Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:58 am

PRO Level 3

Joined: 20 Jun 2006
Posts: 78
Location: Homer Ak

Adobe album the free starter edition is the easist. The new paid for album that comes with elements doesn't display all the file types. the larger files do not show up as thumb nails. HP also has a free album takes forever to load.

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Bosscamper

Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 12:10 pm

PROfessional Member

Joined: 08 Jul 2004
Posts: 2157
Location: Ontario, Canada

I have tried so-called "organizers", and find that they all just load up your computer with stuff you don't need.

I simply use Windows Explorer. Make a folder called "pics", or "Images" or whatever, with sub folders with the title of what's in each folder. XP does thumbnails for you. To view I use a utility called Image Eye
http://www.shareup.com/Image_Eye-download-6377.html
Very fast and uncluttered. All my images open in it for viewing, and from that image you can do a slide show of the folder you are in.

All neat and organized the way you want, not a software programmer's choice.