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photo/image database with EXIF, tags and comments/description [closed]

photo/image database with EXIF, tags and comments/description [closed]

Does anyone know of an application to store vast amounts of images/photos, along with EXIF data, relevant tags and descriptions of each image. Preferably with some good search capabilities and batch edit options.

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Guest [Entry]

Adobe's Lightroom is probably the premium option for what you after after there, currently Lightroom 3 beta is available as a free download, works until end April 2010,
Guest [Entry]

iVew MediaPro is an industrial-strength app that is perfect for your needs. It handles large numbers of images and huge piles of metadata like nobody's business. They were recently acquired by Microsoft and their product is now known as Microsoft Expression Media. I believe they have a free trial download available, so you can "try before you buy."
Guest [Entry]

"I used to use iMatch. It's a great program -- the only reasons I stopped was that I knew I was getting a Macintosh (it's windows only) and I had some peculiar database requirements that led me to develop my own photo database since I'm almost sure I can't use a standard program to get what I want.

p.s. iMatch's tagging support is superb. You basically set up a hierarchy of custom tags and you get this window with a tree of checkboxes that you can just click both to tag photos, and to see all the photos associated with a particular tag."
Guest [Entry]

"To continue the line of free software for Windows next to XnView, FastStone and Picasa I would recommend to check one more photo organizing software - Phototheca (I participated in creation of this app)

It has lot of capabilities to organize photos, supports EXIF and IPTC metadata and lets to read and write tags and description of photo, and those tags could be read by any software supports IPTC later. Search engine is able to search by tags, description, date and camera model or to create complex query with many other parameters. It has some unique features - ""calendar"" and ""timeline"" to browse or search photos through time.

What is also good that it has modern user interface instead of interface ""from 90's"" and doesn't require tons of mouse clicks to get things done.

Below is a screenshot:"
Guest [Entry]

You can try Windows Live Photo Gallery - it supports tagging ( including people tagging & custom tags) stores all EXIF data, search on pretty much anything ( picture taken date / month / year, tags et al), and got support for plugins as well. You can also publish them Live Mesh, facebook & flickr.