Software for organizing photos

Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Nov 12, 2007 at 03:25 AM

Randall Shinn wrote:
>I have recently come into possession of thousands of family slides and historical
>photographs. I hope to use a slide scanner to digitalize the slides, and a regular
>scanner to work with the rest so that they can be shared with other family members.
> >I
>am hoping that someone in the forum can suggest software that would allow me to tag the
>digital images with a variety of tags so that they become searchable. Has anyone
>worked with such software?
> I’m the designer of SQLNotes which can be the perfect tool for organizing photos:

- The UI is an Excel-like spreadsheet.
- Drag-drop the files from Explorer creates a item with a link to the file
- You have user-defined columns to describe the photo (date, who’s there, where, rating, etc)
- You can add additional information as sub-items (click on the + to see the details, as in Windows Explorer)
- You can sort, filter, group easily
- Image file is not imported, SQLNotes creates a link, so the SQLNotes remains real small
- No imaging editing tool included (would be second rate anyway). You use the editing tools that you prefer! Double-click the item in SQLNotes to open it.
- You can create many such spreadsheets (called grids) where you see some or all of your pictures. Great to view the same photo in different contexts (without making copies) i.e. The grid of photos of my wife and the grid of photos of our trip to Hawaii, some of the photos will be the same. No problem!

Plus, coming soon are 2 great additions for this specific task:
- Automatic file monitoring. Tell it which folders to monitor and new pictures will be added to your SQLNotes file automatically, in a separate window so you know that they need to be documented.
- A built-in image viewer, which rotates to show constant size (portrait vs landscape)

More info at http://www.sqlnotes.net