Photo organising software

[eob]

Hello all,
just wondering if the more professional photographers among you use software to organise the file structure for their collection.
The reason I ask is that at the moment my photo structure is a folder for each activity e.g. "Aug08_Day at StAndrews".
TBH it's in a bit of a mess and contains many duplicates, so I started rooting around for software that would automate the task.

I found one which does what I need, http://www.photosorter.us/about_photo_sorter_platinum.html.
I was wondering if anyone had had experience of this software and if anyone knew what advantages the Platinum version had over the normal version, http://www.photosorter.org/?

Cheers,
Ed

[scottwramsay]

I'd recommend Lightroom and/or Bridge from Adobe. I'm not a professional though, so I don't know how much more specialised your needs would be, but you can organise by date, events and tags etc.

[John]

I use Lightroom. The physical folder structure is based upon year / date taken as I prefer to work using chronology. I then tag photos with relevant subject or area of interest. You can then use Lightroom to sort the photographs based upon the tags.

[Peetabix]

Another vote for Lightroom although Pixort only costs $25 (about £13) and is a great work flow tool but without the editing ability of Lightroom.

[eob]

Excellent, I'll download the trial and give it ago.
The Photo Sorter Platinum seemed to be the best shareware I could find, but it was a bit clunky in places and some of the translation was a bit off. They were also a bit heavy handed with unclosable "register now" popups.

I'm by no means anywhere near a professional photographer, I only have a Sony T20 but since the little 'uns have came along I've become snap happy.

[scotgio]

If you're just looking to manage casual snaps then Google's Picasa program is hard to beat on the PC, and iPhoto on the Mac does pretty much the same thing.

Plus Picasa makes it dead easy to share your albums online with friends/family.

Both of these options are completely free for the full version.

http://picasa.google.co.uk/intl/en/#utm ... _medium=et

[engineer]

i use picasa, i think its great. geotagging, basic fixes etc and the google picture viewer to replace the windows default is pretty cool too.
get the picasa2flickr button to post straight to flickr