Download a free copy of Adobe Lightroom.
Even if you never use the development tools, the relational data base will do any kind of archiving work you need.
It may look like a porsche on the outside, but it really is a tractor under the hood.
If you already have Photoshop CS2, then get more info on BRIDGE. (Or, if not, maybe think about buying it?)
* Built in search engine with virtually endless search input criteria
* The ability to input virtually endless keywords.
*The ability to work with all RAW formats
* The ability to sort and store in any random and immediately changeable order.
* 5 colour and 5 star ranking gives you 25 quick (Single key) ranking.
* Variable thumbnail and preview sizes in the UI (No need to go to a menu and change settings)
* Batch re-naming
* Batch processing
Etc.
Etc
Etc
Herschel Mair
Head of the Department of Photography,
Higher College of Technology
Muscat
Sultanate of Oman
Adobe Certified instructor
+ (986) 99899 673
----- Original Message ----From: James Schenken <jds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 3:16:40 AMSubject: Re: Photo archive/index softwareBruce:
Assuming an image size of 50 MB per image ( compressed down to 10 MB
if .JPEG format ), then 1 GB will hold 100 images and 1 TB 100,000 images.
That being the case, you data base will be less than 200,000 images in size.
My personal data base of images is about 40,000 images and it is
indexed quite nicely by PICASA, a free software package from Google.
It does require manual entry of the details you desire in that it
does not automatically access the EXIF or the IPTC data attached to
images these days.
I assume that Google will respond to that need some time in the near future.
For your size data base, virtually any PC / MAC data management
package such as ACCESS, etc will work.
If your images mostly have the EXIF and / or IPTC data already
imbedded, then lots of hours will be saved by finding a package that
automatically
index by those characteristics. I would look carefully at any
proposed solution to make sure that such capability is included since
even the most expensive
package will cost an insignificant amount when compared to the labor
hours for manual data entry.
Cheers,
James
At 11:17 AM 12/11/2006 -0600, you wrote:
>Our University Relations group is looking for photo
>indexing/cataloging/storage software/hardware. I thought I'd query the
>wisdom of the collective group. They shoot Nikon/Canon digital 35mm,
>convert camera files to Adobe RAW format and save them. Also scan the
>occasional medium format negatives. They are estimating 1.5 terrabytes
>of data now, and would expand to 3 terrabytes. No actual counts on
>images. They want to, of course, index each image as to
>content/date/etc.
>
>Does anyone have recommendations for software to do this? I can handle
>the hardware needed just fine, but need info on software packages.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bruce Harrison
>Univ. of Tennessee at Martin
James Schenken
