Digital BW, The Print

Thanks! Sounds good.

Scott

blairmacintyre wrote:

> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Scott McLoughlin
> <scott@a...>
> wrote:
> > My digital image "database" is getting pretty huge, so I'm looking
> > for a good software package that will keep indexed, tagged catalogs
> > of thumbnail images on a local hard disk and then allow for offline
> > storage (e.g., USB drives or CD's, etc.) of the actual large scanned
> > images or raw files.
> >
> > iView Media Pro looks good from the specs, but I'm looking for
> > any user feedback.
>
> I use it, and am pretty happy.
>
> However, my use is pretty basic:
> - I don't use tags. Too lazy to every tag pictures, so the tags sit
> there unused
> - I have about 15G of pictures (about 8200) back to 1999, from
> various digital cameras
> and scanners. Current camera is a D70.
>
> That said, what I do do:
> - I keep my images on my home powermac, and sync a subset (my 2005
> directory, right
> now) to my laptop using an external sync program.
> - It's "Reset Folder Path ..." feature, is a lifesaver: when I'm
> running on a different
> machine, I just reset the top level path to my files, and all the
> sets are updated
> appropriately. It's hasn't lost a picture yet.
> - Since it keeps the thumbnails internally (which means my catalog
> file is 75M right now), I
> can still see all the images, even if I don't have them on my laptop.
> - It's hierarchical catalog sets are good.
> - I originally used it because it has editable HTML templates for
> dumping out catalogs.
> See the pictures at www.gracemacintyre.com for the catalogs I
> generated of my daughter.
> Since we had a second child this year, I'm switching to a blog
> format, but that was useful
> when I used it.
> - The date-based scanning is nice. I tend to skim pictures using the
> folder view and the
> date view, and only use catalog sets for "good" pictures
>
> I considered something more expensive, but never really tried the
> pricey programs. ivmp
> is nice and zippy with my collection. It's a bit sluggish displaying
> NEF files (as all
> programs are), but it's WAY faster than the Nikon programs, so that's
> saying something.
>
>
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