![]() Oh, and I forgot to mention, the User forum is very good, with lots of community support, and Hert, one of the developers, is also very active and responsive in it. Take a look at the trial version of PS3 I think you’ll find it is probably what you’re looking for. It also supports the Image Region standard of the Metadata Working Group, which is used for tagging faces in an image (this standard is also used by Google’s Picasa). PS3 supports Exif and all the IPTC standards: IIM for backwards capability, Core, Extension and Plus. The cataloguing and management tools of Photo Supreme V3 are (IMHO) light years ahead of Lightroom. I use the tools in Lightroom if I want to have advanced image editing. It has image editing capabilities, but these are not its prime focus. It’s really the best I’ve found, and I’ve tried a lot of them over the years. This means that although WLPG will automatically track all the keywords and any changes, it no longer holds them in a multi-level hierarchy, but simply as a flat list of keywords.īob, Photo Supreme V3 is superb at cataloguing and managing photos. Photo Supreme understands this, but WLPG does not. I’ve now moved to adopting the Lightroom method of defining and storing hierarchical information in photo metadata. WLPG is an easy to use browser for the family to use. Windows Live Photo Gallery also uses this convention, so it would track metadata changes and the hierarchy automatically. It refers to using IDimager, but now I’m using Photo Supreme in the same way.Īt the time I wrote this post, I was storing hierarchical keywords using “/” as the delimiter. This post gives the gory details (in the answer to question 1): This is all done automatically at the import stage by Photo Supreme. Photos end up in a hierarchical folder structure that is organised by date, and every photo is renamed with the date/timestamp of when it was taken. If you’re looking for a good tool to manage your photo metadata, take a look at Photo Supreme. That means that as well as being able to list the people appearing in a photo, I can now show their names on the photo itself. It also now supports the Image Region metadata standard defined by the Metadata Working Group – the same standard used by Google’s Picasa for People Tags. I can now automatically synchronize entries for the IPTC Extension fields for “Person In Image”, “Places”, and “Event” IPTC fields – something that I had to do manually in V2. It supports a wide range of photo metadata standards out of the box: Exif, IPTC Core, Extension and Plus. The metadata handling of Photo Supreme strikes me as being head and shoulders above what Lightroom currently has to offer. I’m also a Lightroom 5 Standalone user, but the only reason I have that is for its image processing capabilities. It is definitely a big step forward from version 2 (which in itself was a very good tool), so version 3 has become my DAM tool of choice going forward. I was fortunate enough to be one of the beta testers for version 3. It has over 150 additions and improvements over version 2. This week, version 3 of Photo Supreme is announced. After my initial shock, I switched to Photo Supreme, and after an uncertain start, I found that it was, in large part, covering my requirements for a Digital Asset Management (DAM) tool. Two years ago, IDimager was suddenly withdrawn from the market by the company, and replaced by Photo Supreme. It was what I used for tagging my photos. In 2007, I settled on IDimager as the most suitable tool for what I was looking for. I’ve been trying to capture, and manage, this sort of information since 2005, and have tried a lot of software applications in the process. In technical terms, this is the photo’s metadata. Almost as important to me as the image is the information describing the photo when it was taken, where, the subject – that sort of thing. I’m not a good photographer, but occasionally, more by luck than judgement, I take a photo that looks pretty good to me.
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