Software to manage digital photos

[vase]

I was looking for a thread on this, but to my surprise was not able to

find anything. I am looking for software to manage digital photos. I

basically just want something that I put a photos in to and then be

able to browse. I have tried:

 

Adobe Photo Album 2 - which I think is too slow. Nice product but it

takes forever (I have about 15,000 photos).

ACDSee - Nice product, but the Canon RAW pluggin is buggy, causes the

whole application to crash.

Also looked at the PaintShop package but was not impressed.

 

So now I just window explorer and generate thumbnails. Cheap but not

good. Please let know of other software packages that you would

recommend.

 

Cheers

[emre]

<a href="http://photools.com/products.php">iMatch</a> slices and dices.

[Brad_]

Try <a href="http://www.iview-multimedia.com"> <B>iView MediaPro</B></a>. I've

been using it for almost 3 years with thousands of images - it's rock solid.

[patrickconnolly]

Try Photo Mechanic - the following url has good info about it. At about $150 it is pricey, but it rocks if you are looking at mass volumes of images. There is a download available for evaluation purposes.

 

http://www.camerabits.com/pages/PM4.html

[Craig_Cooper11664875449]

What Brad said...

[christopher_auman__archivi]

Yes, iView Media Pro is a great product. It might be a little overkill for you though if you

are just interested in viewing and browsing. There are a lot of great products out there

though. I am personally using iPhoto on the mac which is a decent program and getting

better every time. I keep waiting for Apple to start offering their software on the PC

platform like they have with the iPod.

[Mike D]

I have to second the recommendation on Photo Mechanic. It is the only program that I know of whose browser will open full screen previews on the fly. If I take several hundred images at a football game, it's very difficult to find the best images with tiny previews. With Photo Mechanic, I can pound through several hundred images at full screen and select the best on first try.

[vase]

Thanks for all the responses. Did look into some of the suggestions, but I ended up buying ACDSee version 7. It is really nice for what I am using it for plus it is relatively cheap $50 (vs $200). The one thing that really annoys me about it is the Canon Raw plugin, it does not work all that well. What it does it treats the two files as seperate images and it does not show all the data for an image. Just think that could have been done better.