[kimlef]

Hello...Looking for a digital image organizer for my company. We want it to be internal software or web service and have the ability to type in a number of key words to find our images. Example green high res would pull up our green homes that we have high res pics on

I downloaded flickr and really like it. Any other advice? What about BR Software? Picasa doesn't work fyi. Doesn't allow tagging.
Thanks!

[AgentF]

If you're using Windows 7, I don't think you need special software to add keywords to pictures. Open up the folder with the pictures, select a picture, and look at the "tags" section at the bottom. You can add keywords to images that way (test1; test2). Make sure you click the Save button that appears after you added them.
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Then you can use the Search tool to search by the keywords/tags.
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Although I'm almost positive it's not needed, the machine I tested this had Photo Gallery installed, which is apart of the Windows Live Essentials suite.

[LincolnSpector]

kimlef, on 06 January 2011 - 09:55 AM, said:

Hello...Looking for a digital image organizer for my company. We want it to be internal software or web service and have the ability to type in a number of key words to find our images. Example green high res would pull up our green homes that we have high res pics on

I downloaded flickr and really like it. Any other advice? What about BR Software? Picasa doesn't work fyi. Doesn't allow tagging.
Thanks!

The jpg format supports tags (those key words you mentioned) natively. As AgentF pointed out, the Windows 7 version of Explorer lets you assign and search for tags (Vista does this, too). However, the user interface is kind of clumsy.

If you've got Vista, you already have Photo Gallery, which handles these tags beautifully. If you have Windows 7, you can download Microsoft's Windows Live Photo Gallery, basically the upgrade. They've changed the interface significantly, unfortunately imho, and it's not as geared towards tags as well as the earlier version, but still has them.

Picasa does tags, too, but they always felt like an afterthought to me. For instance, the navigation panel allows you to select images by Albums, People, Projects, and Folders, but you have to use the search tool to filter on tags.

Lincoln

[LiveBrianD]

I've had Windows Live Photo Gallery and it seems to do a good job. Picasa seems to be lighter (on system resources), but not as functional (in my opinion).

[crazy4laptops]

kimlef, on 06 January 2011 - 09:55 AM, said:

Hello...Looking for a digital image organizer for my company. We want it to be internal software or web service and have the ability to type in a number of key words to find our images. Example green high res would pull up our green homes that we have high res pics on

I downloaded flickr and really like it. Any other advice? What about BR Software? Picasa doesn't work fyi. Doesn't allow tagging.
Thanks!

Adobe Lightroom has tagging & star rating on photos

[Szczecinianin]

Adobe Lightroom? This is like shooting a fly with a cannon, as we say in Poland. You may try this freeware as well. Cost efficiency is important for a company.

[LiveBrianD]

crazy4laptops, on 26 January 2011 - 03:57 PM, said:

Adobe Lightroom has tagging & star rating on photos

...And a pricetag of $300! Picasa and Photo Gallery don't. Lightroom is probably overkill, like Szczecinianin said.