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Pesto126 · #9 (**permalink**) 12-24-2006

Love that one.. work smart - not hard! This whole process is a labor of love that's for sure.. the big thing to remember is to stick with it and try to attack it as soon as you can. I try to always follow the steps from start to finish each time I transfer the photos to the PC... of course, I do sometimes put off cataloging (step 3) but if you wait too long.. now you are face with catalogin 800 images or more.. and then the task becomes not fun at all!

Tracey R (Haley64) · #10 (**permalink**) 12-24-2006

Yep see this is where I am at right now!!

"now you are face with cataloing 800 images or more.. and then the task becomes not fun at all!"

Pesto126 · #11 (**permalink**) 12-24-2006

I hear ya.. I've been there too! Just sit down and give yourself an hour or so... try to rank and keyword 100 images.. you'll be surprised at how quickly it does go once you get used to a particular program.. and you'll love yourself later when you try to scrap a layout and need a yellow flower, yellow ribbon, flower font and yellow swirl paper!

Tracey R (Haley64) · #12 (**permalink**) 12-24-2006

I am still trying to decided which program I want to use and stick with!
Mostly more concerned with my photo's and not digital items...at one time I did have them all done in Picasa but guess what...downloaded some new kits and BAM in a heartbeat I am not organized anymore!

I loved your starring method...I played around in InfranView...but didn't see that ability in there. I did however download the plug-ins for EXIF Data and a few other enhancements.

I have adobe bridge...but have never played with it too much either.
I have Corel Photo album6.0...but am extremely weary of that product now days. So much so that I wouldn't consider even starting to use it!!

Ok so I also have a lot of photo's on CD's can I add to the keywords and catalog them from the CD's or do I have to copy them to my computer again, add keywords and then burn them back to a CD?
Never played with this area of expertist before....

Pesto126 · #13 (**permalink**) 12-24-2006

Hi Haley - nice to see some people logging in on Christmas eve.. I'm lonely at work!

Irfanview is just for viewing the images instead of using Windows picture viewer (which is awful and not color manage aware). Irfanview will also do a ton of stuff (its batch feature alone is worth downloading for file renaming).

The staring and keywording is all done within Idimager.

Adobe bridge will do all of these things as well and it is quite nice -especially the new 3.0 of bridge. It won't do some of the fancier items like creating web pages.. but if you don't need these things, it will support XMP and IPTC keywording and ratings.

In Idimager, no - you would not have to move your photos back onto your PC from the CD's/DVD's... You would simply just scan the DVD from inside IDI, it would create thumbnails of all the images. I would also turn on the create preview option in IDI - it will create a low res preview which is imbedded into the catalog so when you want to view those DVD images a bit larger than the thumbnail, you don't have to insert the DVD again. Note - I do this with my scrap elements which I keep on an EHD... I don't always want this hooked up but do explore them in IDI and have a nice size preview to look at without having to hook it up and pull the image off the EHD.

Download the IDI demo and play around with it.. they have a great tutorial and website that will guide you around to product. Adobe bridge is great too and there are lots of books on how to use it (mainly for RAW) as well.