Alternative to Picasa - Photo organiser/viewer?

UnworthyBean

UnworthyBean

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I'm currently using Picasa which I really like, but looking to switch to something else for two reasons. As they're ending support, I'd rather something which is still being developed and also the Geotagging feature doesn't seem to work correctly unless you download an older version of Earth.

Must have
- Some sort of Geotagging feature as I actually use this quite a lot.
- Can just pop photos in a folder and it picks them up OR will automatically sort them by Year/Month into folders.

I've tried Lightroom and love the interface but I can't just pop my photos in a folder and it picks them up. It always has to move them to its own catalogue or have to manually sync folders which I prefer it to be automatic.

Any ideas?
 
UnworthyBean said:
I'm currently using Picasa which I really like, but looking to switch to something else for two reasons. As they're ending support, I'd rather something which is still being developed and also the Geotagging feature doesn't seem to work correctly unless you download an older version of Earth.

Must have
- Some sort of Geotagging feature as I actually use this quite a lot.
- Can just pop photos in a folder and it picks them up OR will automatically sort them by Year/Month into folders.

I've tried Lightroom and love the interface but I can't just pop my photos in a folder and it picks them up. It always has to move them to its own catalogue or have to manually sync folders which I prefer it to be automatic.

Any ideas?
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LightRoom works really nicely if you set it up. Basically you set your main folder, then whenever you have some new photos, rather than copying them in to the physical folder you just import them using LightRoom, making sure you select the 'Copy' option when importing which will copy the photos to your main folder, all nicely ordered and dated.
 
wesley said:
acdsee pro? its not free thou
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Looks decent, I'll give it a shot and see how I get on. Little pricey though.
wesley said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_organizer#Notable_image_organizers
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List is handy thanks, But I was also hoping for reccomendations that people have actually used.

NeverWinter said:
FastStone?
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Whilst it looks like it would get the job done, I just don't think I could get away with the interface.

Craig321 said:
LightRoom works really nicely if you set it up. Basically you set your main folder, then whenever you have some new photos, rather than copying them in to the physical folder you just import them using LightRoom, making sure you select the 'Copy' option when importing which will copy the photos to your main folder, all nicely ordered and dated.
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That's the thing though, I don't really want to manually import the photos. If there's an option to automatically do this when it detects changes or on startup, I'm willing to give it another chance though.
 
There are some auto import options if you go to File > Auto Import. YOu can set a watched folder, so you could have a 'Dump' folder where you put everything, then when you open LightRoom, it'll move them to your main photo folder.
 
UnworthyBean said:
Looks decent, I'll give it a shot and see how I get on. Little pricey though.

List is handy thanks, But I was also hoping for reccomendations that people have actually used.


Whilst it looks like it would get the job done, I just don't think I could get away with the interface.


That's the thing though, I don't really want to manually import the photos. If there's an option to automatically do this when it detects changes or on startup, I'm willing to give it another chance though.
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You copy your photos to a single 'watched' folder, the auto import feature of LR then detects them added to that folder and automatically moves to the folder you have specified in the auto import settings. You physically only copy the files once to a folder, exactly the same as what you would have done with Picasa anyway.

You set it up once and forget about, its simple, seemless and is no different from what what Picasa does really for the end user. Honestly nothing else comes close.
 
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