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I’m looking for some software which can bring some organization to all of the photos we have scattered all over our various hard drives and computers at my house.

This is what I’m looking for:
The program would do an initial search for all photos and videos. It would then show us a thumbnail pic of each one, and let me choose from the following tasks:
* Physically move or copy the photos and videos into different locations (e.g. group them into various folders).
* Open a photo or video with my preferred video editing/viewing software.
* Convert from one video format to another (e.g. from PNG to JPG).
* Do backups of photos / videos (i.e. keep copies in multiple locations).

I might want more or different functionality than the above, but this would be a good start.

Does anyone know of some good photo management software?

Thank you.

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Will FSViewer work?  No automatic  backup.

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FSViewer looks good. Did not know about it, thanks for the tip.

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[doriel]

Try IrfanView. Lot of lot of possibilities/plugins. Including Thumbnails – lets say photo manager offering lot of operations with selected files:

Also I use “Batch conversion function” its easy to convert 1000 photos with this function. Look at all these possibilities and thats not all you can set (target file size, DPI, dimensions, rotation, overlay text to every photo … name it):

You can start converting/whatevef from File — Batch conversion

There is no backing up I think, but there are lot of ways how to do that. for exmaple in our country (czech republic), there is service called rajce.net – which offers free cloud storage and photo management software. Payed version is without ads, offers more storage etc.

Maybe some sort of this service works for your country too?

But I think you should at least try IrfanView!

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another consideration could be Faststone Image Viewer no backup facility but, copy to a dedicated folder then manually backup?
During the program setup an option offers portability (USB run) instead of installing in the OS. I used this years ago but haven’t needed it since installing secondary and external data storage devices.

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I think, thats what @Mike recommended in #post-2320060

Will FSViewer work? No automatic backup.

Seems like we have two votes for Faststone already

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[access-mdb]

I still use Picasa as I think it’s the best photo management app out there, with most of the editing facilities that I’m likely to use. I’ve looked at other photo apps, but none did what Picasa does so well. You can easily add any folder for it to list the photos on it, and the thumbnails are in one continuous window.

I will be watching this thread to see if someone comes up with one I haven’t tried as Picasa is no longer supported – why not Google, it’s a winner?!

In the end, just download all the free ones and try them for size and use the one best suited for your requirements. It’s possible that a combination will give you what you want – app A does ABC, app B does CDEF. I’ve got XnViewMP and IrfanView as well as Nikon ones which came with my camera. Also the Gimp and Paint.net

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[geekdom]

For those of you that offered software suggestions, please include a safe link, preferably author’s site, from which to download software.

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OK, good point:
FS View
IrfanView

cant see what version of Picasa to post here, seems like its available on many sites. Cant say who is the “correct” vendor.

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MrJimPhelps wrote:

I’m looking for some software which can bring some organization to all of the photos we have scattered all over our various hard drives and computers at my house.

If you can find a copy of Picasa (not supported any more by Google) you will get what you need.

InfanView is another good choice.

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The final version of Picasa is 3.9.141, build 259.  It continues to work well on Windows 10, and can be downloaded from here.

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[mn--]

Then there’s always digiKam.

I’m told it’s a good replacement for Picasa, I wouldn’t know as I’ve never used Picasa myself… but digiKam does have tags, multiple folders, metadata-based management, external tool integration and a bunch of things like that.

doriel wrote:

There is no backing up I think, but there are lot of ways how to do that. for exmaple in our country (czech republic), there is service called rajce.net – which offers free cloud storage and photo management software. Payed version is without ads, offers more storage etc.

I noticed that digiKam has a hotkey for exporting to rajce.net and a bunch of other services.

And for the OP…

MrJimPhelps wrote:

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Given that, well…

$ apt-cache show digikam

Package: digikam
Section: universe/graphics
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Debian KDE Extras Team <pkg-kde-extras@lists.alioth.debian.org>
...

Should be easy to at least try that.

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…you read my mind!

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Well after working out how and what to download, I’m now installing it. I will test it and see if it is better than the others I’ve tried. Good luck Jim, hope it meets your requirements!

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For Windows, take a look at Adobe Photoshop Elements with Premier Elements bundle. Includes an organizer. https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-premiere-elements.html

$99.99 at the moment for the bundle.

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