----- Original Message ----- From: "ADavidhazy" : "I am a photo hobby guy. Can you suggest a program (free or inexpensive) to : archive digital photos on DVD media? I'm not interested in a all inclusive : program, like most commercial programs, that include lots of PhotoShop like : features to improve photos. I just want to store lots of photos on DVD disk : and have ability to "tag" pictures to easily find them on disk or multiple : disks - stored in "albums" and retrievable as album files or as individual : pictures." deepburner for a simple, free, small *burner* package http://www.deepburner.com/?r=download Irfanview for a simple, small free image manipulation program (especially batch processing) also handy for making thumbnail sheets/contact print sheets or slideshows of all the images on the DVD www.irfanview.com a tutorial on the many features of irfanview (it's amazing how many questions you hear from long term users who haven't found this or that function ) http://www.indeavors.com/services_wbt_ivtutorial.htm Photofiltre for a simple, small free image editing program http://www.photofiltre.com/ exifer for a small free exif editor/viewer (add tags with this): http://www.exifer.friedemann.info/ jpeg cleaner for a tiny, free metadata stripper (for web pics) http://www.rainbow-software.org/ printfolder for a free, small program to add a right click context tool to allow a text file to be generated listing all the files in a folder, their size, creation and editing dates etc.. (burn this text file to the DVD as well, and keep the txt file tucked away with the same ref number as the one written on the dvd, ie DVD1.txt) http://www.sofotex.com/PrintFolder-1.2-download_L2071.html hope this helps k
