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Re: [OM] (OM) OT another to my list of questions

Subject: Re: [OM] (OM) OT another to my list of questions
From: Jez Cunningham <jez.cunningham@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:03:24 +0100
But adding keywords (tags) to images is much easier than adding
columns to an Excel 'database'!

Jez

On 12 Jun 2013, at 09:50, "C.H.Ling" <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>> I just start playing with Picasa, it looks good. To make things simple
>>> you
>>> should put all your images in one folder (with sub-folders inside) and
>>> set
>>> the searching for this folder only otherwise it will search all your
>>> connected hard disks.
>>
>> Not necessary. You may flag each drive, folder, sub-folder to be searched
>> once, never, regularly, whatever.
>>
>
> Yes, it is not necessary, I have seperate drives and folders flag for
> checking. But for many starters it is easier to put all their image folders
> inside a big folder to start with. Then change each sub-folders' setting
> when required. I have less than 40K images to handle so setting them all to
> "Scan Always" is still extremely fast.
>
>> Turning off face detection, yes. But no matter what the settings, it would
>> run a very long time for Tina. She already
>> has her catalog in LR. I can't imagine any reason to switch down to
>> Picasa.
>>
>
> I have no idea what LR is capable of but if she can manage her images with
> LR just no need to try Picasa.
>
>>> You can set captions for each image, it can be found with search at no
>>> time.
>>
>> Yes, the search function is quick.
>>
>> I would hesitate to spend many hours adding keywords without finding out
>> if the database may be read by other software
>> and/or converted to the format of other indexing products.
>>
>
> I have not start putting keywords at the moment, just tried a few images for
> test purpose. My image folders are named by date, location or event, I can
> do some simple search at the moment. It is a lot of work to put all those
> key words on each image and it is hard to decide what key words to use.
>
> C.H.Ling
>
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