Photo organisation software recommendations for Windows 10

[Vic w]

Hi,

I have been using Windows Live Photo Gallery to organise my pictures until recently when I bought a Windows 10 laptop and am now looking for something similar to use.

Features that I am looking for:

• Ability to tag photos with custom tags & tag hierachy
• Ability to add folders from multiple locations rather than having to have all my pictures in one place
• Ability to search my library by any custom tag, date or name
• Ability to see a large thumbnail of the images
• Ability to do basic editing (such as crop, rotate, straighten, alter contrast etc)
• Map of images based on location tagging.

Can anyone suggest anything suitable?

 

[Cariboo]

Hi,

I have been using Windows Live Photo Gallery to organise my pictures until recently when I bought a Windows 10 laptop and am now looking for something similar to use.

Features that I am looking for:

• Ability to tag photos with custom tags & tag hierachy
• Ability to add folders from multiple locations rather than having to have all my pictures in one place
• Ability to search my library by any custom tag, date or name
• Ability to see a large thumbnail of the images
• Ability to do basic editing (such as crop, rotate, straighten, alter contrast etc)
• Map of images based on location tagging.

Can anyone suggest anything suitable?

This topic has been discussed so many times already. So Please do a forum search for DAM software and or other keywords (get used to keywords). If you do, you will find a wealth of information, suggestions and options. The answers will be at your finger tips in seconds. However, Windows Live Photo Gallery is a pretty basic and unreliable program to keep metadata. Once you start reading and learning, you'll learn why. DAM organization can be "simple" but also incredibly powerful if learned. Also, IME, don't try to reinvent the DAM wheel of organization but work with how the software is designed vs. how your brain thinks it should be designed, you will have an easier working time. It is likely that you may want software to work how Windows Live Photo Gallery worked and other software just may not but actually would work better if you let it.

Popular suggestions you will find are PhotoSupreme, iMatch, ACDSee, Daminion, DigiKam, Dartktable, Lightroom and a few others. Web and forum search each of these for more specifics. None of us know how your brain processes organization or what you expect or what your budget is, so better to figure that out yourself via the HUGE amount of forum info.

 

[Jim B (MSP)]

Hi,

I have been using Windows Live Photo Gallery to organise my pictures until recently when I bought a Windows 10 laptop and am now looking for something similar to use.

Features that I am looking for:

• Ability to tag photos with custom tags & tag hierachy
• Ability to add folders from multiple locations rather than having to have all my pictures in one place
• Ability to search my library by any custom tag, date or name
• Ability to see a large thumbnail of the images
• Ability to do basic editing (such as crop, rotate, straighten, alter contrast etc)
• Map of images based on location tagging.

Can anyone suggest anything suitable?

While there are lots of threads on this topic, you have pretty much described the current Lightroom Classic.

 

[Cariboo]

Also search the DPR Retouching Forum.

Here is one current discussion there related to your post.

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/64609824

You would do well to search for and read threads by iMatch developer Mario Westphal who is very knowledgeable, generous with his time and with answering questions. He has lots of past threads on this topic. His software may, as probably the others, have cost and more features than you need or will ever use but that is the nature of the beast as they all grow and grow for supposed customer and Ai demand, which includes free OS software such as DigiKam and Darktable.

Are you also familiar with Peter Krogh? He has several books and videos out on DAM image management and has also contributed to the Best Workflow website which also has DAM workflow information. You can do web and YouTube searches for these and software user reviews to begin your trip down the rabbit hole in search of the Holy Grail of image management for your particular brain.

 

[Michal_G]

Exposure X6 matches 90% of your requirements (not sure about the map, never used such functionality).

 

[PHXAZCRAIG]

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