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Digital Photo Organizer

  • 17-10-2016 09:47AM
    #1
    RebelButtMunch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,422 ✭✭✭


    Hi
    Can anyone recommend a digital photo organizer/manager? Something where he can all have his photos in one place, and the tool will manage dates/sorting etc.
    The spec's I need, are
    It's for my dad, not tech savvy
    Windows
    Free

    Thanks!


Comments

  • #2
    Paulw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,270 ✭✭✭✭Paulw


    Adobe Lightroom is probably the best, but it's not free.


  • #3
    Bacchus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,868 ✭✭✭Bacchus


    How about Google Photos. It's free, you can upload everything and it'll automatically sort by date. Only downside is that unless you pay (or limit yourself to 15Gb) they slight reduce the quality of the image. To be honest though, it's not really noticeable unless you're storing high resolution stuff that you want blown up large.


  • #4
    bullpost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,283 ✭✭✭bullpost


    Bacchus wrote: »
    How about Google Photos. It's free, you can upload everything and it'll automatically sort by date. Only downside is that unless you pay (or limit yourself to 15Gb) they slight reduce the quality of the image. To be honest though, it's not really noticeable unless you're storing high resolution stuff that you want blown up large.

    This looks like its got good potential. Going to look at it shortly for family photo album. I had everything on Picasa but thats gone kaput. Use Flickr for my usual photo stuff but want an easily organised app for family stuff - essentially a digital photo album.


  • #5
    Bacchus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,868 ✭✭✭Bacchus


    bullpost wrote: »
    This looks like its got good potential. Going to look at it shortly for family photo album. I had everything on Picasa but thats gone kaput. Use Flickr for my usual photo stuff but want an easily organised app for family stuff - essentially a digital photo album.

    I used to use it for sharing family photo albums too but I moved to SmugMug (not free) so I could upload photos in their original full quality. Not that Google Photos wasn't great for that, it's just that I couldn't cope with the thought of Google's algorithm reducing the image quality even 1% :pac: Since then I just use Google Photos for backing up personal photos, in particular auto backups from my phone.


  • #6
    JosDel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 881 ✭✭✭JosDel


    Agree with Paulw, I use the catalogues in LR5 to store my pics, very easy to find pics using key words.


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  • #7
    bullpost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,283 ✭✭✭bullpost


    JosDel wrote: »
    Agree with Paulw, I use the catalogues in LR5 to store my pics, very easy to find pics using key words.

    LR will not be suitable for non-tech savvy user imo.


  • #8
    Bacchus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,868 ✭✭✭Bacchus


    bullpost wrote: »
    LR will not be suitable for non-tech savvy user imo.

    Also not free (one of the OP requirements).


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