Can anyone recommend a good image sorting/organizing program?
I've been scanning slides and negatives and need some way to categorize and tag them. Ability to edit images would be handy but secondary.
shraby
(21,946 posts)image to sort them for me.
If of people, I put the last name first and that sorts them alphabetically.
If more than 1 of a person, I add a number after the name.
Same with buildings, tombstones, etc.
When done, similar pic can be put in a folder.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)It's pretty much shove in the slide, click/click, shove in the next slide, click/click, on and on.
canetoad
(18,102 posts)The go-to tools for quick editing and sorting are:
Irfanview, which has a great batch edit/rename/convert function. Also has a Thumbnails option for organising. Not sure about the tags though.
XnView. Pretty well does the same as IrfanView, you can edit Description.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)earthshine
(1,642 posts)I listen to tech podcasts on TWIT.TV.
The renown Leo Laporte says that he uses Google photos. One uploads the photos to Google and it scans, analyses, and tags the pictures based on facial recognition.
I don't do it myself, but Leo has spoken about and recommended the service many times.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)It is no longer supported by Google but it will still do what you want and includes facial recognition.
http://filehippo.com/download_picasa/
You can get it at the link above Google no longer offers it directly.
hunter
(38,870 posts).... and too much work.
Everything goes into computer folders with names like this:
1975 Earth Day Hunter.
There's 19th century stuff in my photo hoard, copied across three USB backup hard drives and some of it in the anonymous "cloud."
Each folder is a roll of film, or a sequence of my own OCD scanning of heirloom prints and negatives. If I spent any time tagging photos in some software package I'd never finish. My great grandfathers loved cameras as much as I do. My wife's grandparents left us a mess of photos too. Often there is writing on the backs of prints, so I scan that too, following the photo. If I know something that's not obvious, like who someone is, I'll make a handwritten note on a file card and scan that following the print. All the prints, negatives, and cards go into archival envelopes corresponding to each computer file, and then boxes, by year, estimated if that's all I've got.
I let the computer's file manager deal with thumbnails and stuff, Linux Mate Caja and LXDE PCManFM for the most part.
Facial recognition software creeps me out. I hate it when Facebook tags me without my permission. Unfortunately I've got family crazy about Facebook and I'll often see myself tagged.
With my system it's easy enough to find stuff.
My grandma and her sister ran wild in 1920's Hollywood and I've got the photographic evidence. They're both dead so I don't feel obligated to ask before I post old photos of them. But I do try to respect their spirit.
It's pretty easy to see how my star-struck Wild West Army Air Force Grandpa, who'd grown up thinking places like Billings and Cheyenne were big cities, fell in love with my born in San Francisco cosmopolitan grandma.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)Backing all of that up to a google account? Not for the facial recognition though that is great too but just for the preservation aspect in case of catastrophe?
Did you know you can set a google account to reach out to someone else if it goes inactive for a period of time that you can choose? Nice way to preserve things in case of an accident.
Would be a shame to lose that chunk of history it sounds like you have.
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)It is not free, but it is very good. I have been a user for ages.
It has a cataloging system, but I don't use it for that purpose.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)Thanks for the testimonial.