looking for photo album program?

 g'day friends,

we have lots of pictures (jpg/jpeg) that we want to archive/catalogue
into an album type program that will allow for captions.

it will be best if it is standalone type program that you actually
create albums and put pictures into so that these albums can be
transfered from the hdd to a back up drive and shared around, like the
way documents for word processing are catalogued.

we then also hope to clean up lots of unwanted pic's off our hdd.

the albums would need to be seen on a physical position on the tree.

not sure if i've expained that well enough but don't know any other
way.

tai for all and any assistance
With peace and brightest of blessings,

len & bev

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"Be Content With What You Have And
May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In
A World That You May Not Understand."

http://www.lensgarden.com.au/

 
Picasa (now run by Google) could be what you're after (and it's free too).

http://picasa.google.com/


Liam.

 g'day liam,

thanks for the suggestion, but no looked at picasa and a couple otehrs
like it and along with kodak eazyshare they don't create actual albums
and they don't don't actually take the pic's into the program they are
like a virtual thing, so they do everything except what to me is the
important thing and that is standalone, like your documents folder
attached to your word processor.

i ahve found other programs tat stand alone but most seem to be set up
to put the pic's inot a slide format for entertinment viewing, we are
wanting to archive our pic's of 30 years or more so lots of scanning
to do, and once done i can then clean up/organise those picture files.

ta



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With peace and brightest of blessings,

len & bev

--
"Be Content With What You Have And
May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In
A World That You May Not Understand."

http://www.lensgarden.com.au/

 Len, I am not 100% clear on what you are trying to do, but I think you
want the album program to contain all the photos. I can't remember
seeing any album program working this way.

However, have a look at IdImager (www.idimager.com). It is mainly aimed
at cataloguing your photos but it also does albums, slideshows, etc plus
archiving to CD. The best thing to me is that photos archived to CD are
still searchable in IdImager. It just prompts to insert the CD (and
tells you which one) if you want to use the full size photo rather than
the thumbnail image. There is a free lite version which includes most
functionality plus trial versions of the Professional and Personal
versions.

Anyway, back to the point, after you create albums (virtual like in
Picasa), you can archive a complete album to CD giving you the complete
set of photos on a standalone CD which you can give to someone else to
view. I think this is what you want to do. Alternatively, you can create
slideshows, videos or websites of your album to CD.
 
Check out the free lite version to see if this is what you want as it
has all the album and archiving functionality. Be warned, this is high
end software so it has a lot of functionality and so looks very daunting
at first, but it is well worth the effort to learn.

Graham Corbin

 thanks graham,

i will check that one out.

maybe i could expain it like this we want to archive/catalogue/album
all our family pic's, nothing fancy just the abilty for captions
(necessary).

so imagine we have all those pics in hard copy photo albums now like
most would do, we are wanting a program that will allow us to do that
on our computer, then as i see it like in my documents folder i can go
to any folder or any document edit or drag and drop whatever i wish to
do.

so idealy the program we use would list the albums/whatever in a
physical way on the tree.

we've been doing some searches but very hard for us to work out
exactly what some of the programs will or won't do.

http://www.brothersoft.com/graphics_design/photo_tools/studioline_photo_basic_34471.html

http://www.onlogic.co.nz/

http://www.photo-freeware.net/local-gallery-software.php

your opinions and ideas most welcome, hoping i have explained it all
better?

tia


On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:09:10 +1000, Graham Corbin
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With peace and brightest of blessings,

len & bev

--
"Be Content With What You Have And
May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In
A World That You May Not Understand."

http://www.lensgarden.com.au/