Software/Applications that Manages Photos or Images

Concepts on Software/Applications that Manages Photos or Images

What are Software/Applications that Manages Photos or Images?

1. An Application or Software
2. Focused on
   1. organising digital Images
   2. Improving user's workflow
3. Edit image tags
4. Upload files to on-line hosting pages

Types of Software/ Applications that Manages Photos or Images?

1. Photo/Image Viewers
2. Photo/Image Photo Management Software/ Image Organiser
   1. Database Vs Folder Based
   2. Automatic Vs Manual
   3. Paid Vs Free

Examples of Photo Management Softwares/ Image Organisers

1. Professional
   1. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom - http://www.adobe.com/sea/products/photoshop-lightroom.html - Creative Cloud Photography SGD$13 /mo , Cloud All Apps SGD$66/mo , Education CC SGD$26/mo
2. Web/Cloud Based
   1. Flickr - https://www.flickr.com
   2. Google Photos
   3. Piwigo
   4. Coppermine Photo Gallery
3. Freeware/ Open Sourced
   1. Picassa - NO MORE Piccasa.
   2. Pictomio - http://www.pictomio.com/ - Windows only
   3. JetPhoto Studio - http://www.jetphotosoft.com/web/home/
   4. KDE Based
      1. DigiKam - https://www.digikam.org/ - Stores photos as a database file
   5. GNOME Based
      1. Shotwell - Default in GNOME based distributions
      2. F-Spot - Slower releases
      3. gThumb
4. Proprietary and Platform Limited
   1. Apple Photos

Features of Photo Management Software/ Image Organisers

1. Common Features
   1. Multiple Thumbnail Previews
   2. Organisation into
      1. Albums
      2. Collections
   3. Add Metadata - Tags, Keywords, categories, labels, flags (external format, IPTC or XMP formats)
   4. Resize, export, share, print
2. Other Features
   1. Organisation Features
      1. Folders: Corresponds to file system Folders
      2. Albums: Distinct organisation from folders or file system folders. Images can appear in more than one album
      3. Collections: Hierachy system different from folders. Albums can appear in more than one collection
      4. Group and Sort by
         1. Date and Time
         2. Location
         3. Photographic Details (F-Stop, Shutter etc)
      5. Adding titles and captions
   2. Search Engines
   3. Backing Up and Exporting of Metadata
   4. Editing Images
   5. Exporting
      1. Slideshow (HTML or Flash)
   6. Synchronising albums with web albums
   7. Recognition: Face, color, shape, texture

Reference

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_organizer

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Guides

1. Photo Management by Life Hacker - http://lifehacker.com/tag/photo-management
2. Top Open Source Alternatives to Picasa - https://opensource.com/life/16/3/top-open-source-alternatives-picasa

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