Digital Image Management Tips

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Photo Database Software

Photoool's Imatch	IMatch 3 is the image management tool of choice for thousands of professional photographers and serious amateur photographers worldwide.IMatch makes it easy to view, edit and organize your digital image collection. It integrates all your other applications, works with your digital camera and helps you with all aspects of your digital imaging workflow. IMatch natively supports all major digital camera RAW formats, handles EXIF and IPTC information and is able to manage even very large collections with hundreds of thousands of images. IMatch is a professional quality product -- strong, reliable and fast.
Digital Light and Color Picture Window Pro	Picture Window Pro is a complete, full featured advanced image editor that delivers the power you need to handle just about any photographic situation. It gives you multiple ways to control tonality and color, including curves and histograms. Advanced cropping, sharpening, up sampling, perspective correction, cloning and many other tools to let you get the most out of your digital images. You can make web slide shows and multi-image layouts. A built-in browser lets you pick images by sight and do keyword searches. And all this power is organized in a clear, highly usable way so soon you become quick and efficient at getting just the results you want.
ACD System’s ACDSee	ACDSee digital camera software makes it easy to get, view, organize, print, enhance and share your digital photos super fast. Whether you're a digital photography beginner or a graphics professional, the picture viewer of choice for millions of people will make your digital photography experience more rewarding. View and browse digital photos and graphics quickly, even large images or thousands of thumbnail previews at a time. ACDSee picture viewer and graphic converter is the solution for managing your images. You can even preview sound and video files for over 50 media formats in total, including AVI, MPEG and MP3. Plus, quickly store thumbnails of your entire CD collection and then browse through all your images without loading or switching discs.
Adobe Photoshop Album	Adobe Photoshop Album software has everything you need to find, fix, share, and preserve your memories. Instead of searching through endless folders, you can use a convenient calendar to find photos by date, or revolutionary keyword tags to pinpoint the exact group of photos you want. Quickly fix red eye, lighting, and other basic flaws. Have fun creating custom slide shows, cards, hard-bound photo books, and more. Then share your creations with anyone, anywhere--even on mobile phones and handhelds--in just a few clicks.
ThumbsPlus	ThumbsPlus is a graphic file viewer, locator and organizer that simplifies the process of finding and maintaining graphics, clip-art files, fonts and animations. It displays a small image (thumbnail) of each file. You can use ThumbsPlus to browse, view, edit, crop, launch external editors, and copy images to the clipboard. You can use drag-and-drop to organize graphics files by moving them to appropriate directories. ThumbsPlus will also create a slide show from selected graphics, and install bitmap files as Windows wallpaper. You can print individual graphics files, or the thumbnails themselves as a catalog. ThumbsPlus can convert to several formats, either one at a time or in batch mode. You can also perform image editing in batch mode. ThumbsPlus will also convert metafile graphics to bitmaps (rasterize).
Ulead Photo Explorer	Ulead Photo Explorer 8.0 gives you everything you need to transfer, manage, enhance and share your digital photos, audio and video files. Acquire photos video or sound clips from various digital devices. Make photo enhancements, search by keywords and share media through e-mail, print, slideshows or burn onto CDs for viewing using computers or DVD players. Even scan images from CDs and create virtual CD image catalogs that you can browse without needing the CD in the drive. It's an indispensable all-in-one tool for owners of digital cameras, WebCams, DV camcorders, scanners, or anyone who strives to effectively organize a large collection of digital media.
Smart Pix Manager	Smart Pix Manager is a complete image and multimedia management and viewing solution, that allows you to view, search and categorize files. It is recommended for users who want file security or searching of large image or multimedia collections.
Picasa	Picasa automatically finds and organizes all of your pictures including: jpeg, tiff, bmp, psd, and standard camera movie files. Sending pictures with e-mail used to mean five steps just to get it right. Picasa lets you pick the size and then automatically attaches your pictures. Browse through all your pictures and view slideshows of your albums with the click of a button. Just plug your camera in, and we do the rest. Or, use Photo CD's or your camera's software to download your pictures; Picasa will find and organize them automatically.
CyPics - Digital Photo Album Software	When we set out to design CyPics we wanted to create a windows based program that could properly manage up to 100,000 electronic photos per MS Access album spread over many removable volumes. It had to have strong cataloging and search capabilities. We believed a single image would often belong in many photograph groupings. We were committed to the concept of the PC as the media to manage and play a slide show. The program had to be easy to use through a deceptively simple interface which does not compromise the power of the system. Innovation was the key to the file registration process with a single minded goal of making it fast and minimizing the labor intensity of the process. Newly registered images had to be dynamically included in existing photograph groupings as against static groups that require each new image to be physically added.
Extensis Portfolio	Extensis Portfolio 6 takes over the grunt work of getting and staying organized by creating a visual database from your selected files and folders. Portfolio provides folder monitoring, database management, thumbnail previews, streamlined cataloging and much more to help you organize, find and distribute your files with ease. The new Portfolio Express floating palette lets you access your cataloged files from any application so you can find and use what you need as fast as possible. New for version 6.0.3 for Windows - Portfolio's Pro Photo Raw image filter, a free add-on to Portfolio 6, allows Portfolio to import, thumbnail and preview Raw files generated by high-end digital cameras from Nikon, Olympus, Kodak, Canon and Fuji. This is a free update to registered Portfolio users.
Apple iPhoto	Whether you have twenty or twenty thousand digital photos, iPhoto 4 keeps track of them all, automatically organizing them so you can find them fast. Lightning fast. Easy to use, iPhoto puts you in charge of your photographs — helping you import them, organize them into albums, enhance their appearance, as well as, share them in print, via email, over the web and in stunning coffee-table books.
iView Media	You can use iView Media as a media browser and organizer, media presentation system, or as a drag-and-drop palette side by side with your favorite media editor, or HTML authoring application. You can also organize and annotate media files, print reports, create web galleries and archive files for safe retrieval. With iView Media, you create catalogs and save them on your disk. Catalogs are much smaller and easy to search than dealing with all your original media files together. Catalogs retain media info even when the original files are not available (when the source disk or CD is not presently mounted).