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Posted November 25, 2018
I am looking for suggestions on software, free or paid, which can cover the following:
Catalog photos either in situ, or within its own structure
Apply multiple tags to photos
Allow searching on tags
Run slideshow
Be fully offline, local install
For windows 64bit

Now I have had a look about, and there once was Picassa which was supposed to be the best, however this is no longer available anywhere as far as I can find. The other software which is presented as alternative always seems to be heavy on photo editing and manipulation and little else. I am only interested in organising my pictures (nearly 2tb!). Definitely not interested in anything online.
Worst comes to the worst I will just build my own DB for it, but wanted to check if there was anything already done.
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Posted November 25, 2018
(insert joke about porn collection management here)

Picasa is still available for download in some places - don't know if it works in Win 10 though...

For me the most important thing is hierarchical categories - like Who.Family.Kids.Kid1 or Where.Beach.Spain (with an alt Where.Spain.Beach). After many years of trying different products I gave in and bought Photools IMatch (https://www.photools.com/imatch/).

I've been using it for years now and it's really good for managing bazillion images (can also do movies and other files). There is a trial version available if you want to take a look. The only thing that worries me is that it's only available for Windows and I don't know if it'll run in Wine if I go Linux in 2020...

PS: I'm not affiliated with Photools - it's just the only product I found that met my requirements. It's also DRM-free - once you buy the full version you can download the installer (and any new version after that for 1 year) and it only phones home to check for updates). DRM is the reason I stay away from Adobe. Lightroom is supposedly very good too.
Post edited November 25, 2018 by toxicTom
Posted November 25, 2018
I use XnView MP. It should satisfy most of what you mentioned, but I don't think it will play slideshows.
Posted November 25, 2018
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Serren: I use XnView MP. It should satisfy most of what you mentioned, but I don't think it will play slideshows.
CTRL-L is slideshow in XnView.
Posted November 25, 2018
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toxicTom: CTRL-L is slideshow in XnView.
That no longer works in XnView MP and I don't currently have XnView Classic installed to be able to test it.
Posted November 25, 2018
https://www.bandisoft.com/honeyview/
Posted November 25, 2018
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toxicTom: (insert joke about porn collection management here)

Picasa is still available for download in some places - don't know if it works in Win 10 though...

For me the most important thing is hierarchical categories - like Who.Family.Kids.Kid1 or Where.Beach.Spain (with an alt Where.Spain.Beach). After many years of trying different products I gave in and bought Photools IMatch (https://www.photools.com/imatch/).

I've been using it for years now and it's really good for managing bazillion images (can also do movies and other files). There is a trial version available if you want to take a look. The only thing that worries me is that it's only available for Windows and I don't know if it'll run in Wine if I go Linux in 2020...

PS: I'm not affiliated with Photools - it's just the only product I found that met my requirements. It's also DRM-free - once you buy the full version you can download the installer (and any new version after that for 1 year) and it only phones home to check for updates). DRM is the reason I stay away from Adobe. Lightroom is supposedly very good too.
Thanks, I will take a look at that one. Your right on the heriachical, that sounds very useful. I had just imagined tags to find things, but organising like that would be beneficial.
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Serren: I use XnView MP. It should satisfy most of what you mentioned, but I don't think it will play slideshows.
Thanks, will have a look.
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i_hope_you_rot: https://www.bandisoft.com/honeyview/
While it looks nice as a viewer I couldn't see any tagging/organisational part. Not sure about having something called honeycam or honeyviewer on my desktop either ;o)
Post edited November 25, 2018 by nightcraw1er.488
Posted November 25, 2018
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nightcraw1er.488: Not sure about having something called honeycam or honeyviewer on my desktop either ;o)
Well porn collection management - still can't come up with a good joke here ;-)
Posted November 25, 2018
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i_hope_you_rot:
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nightcraw1er.488: While it looks nice as a viewer I couldn't see any tagging/organisational part. Not sure about having something called honeycam or honeyviewer on my desktop either ;o)
Yeah that's a problem.

In order to be more discreet and not give any people any bad ideas about me, I just rename those programs things like "Hot_Wet_Fucking" and "Giant_Dicks_and_Tits".



Oh hey Chandra! Yeah, just let me collect my things and I'll be leaving. :D
Post edited November 25, 2018 by tinyE
Posted November 25, 2018
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nightcraw1er.488: Not sure about having something called honeycam or honeyviewer on my desktop either ;o)
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toxicTom: Well porn collection management - still can't come up with a good joke here ;-)
It's ok, tinyE will be around shortly with some base examples.
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nightcraw1er.488: While it looks nice as a viewer I couldn't see any tagging/organisational part. Not sure about having something called honeycam or honeyviewer on my desktop either ;o)
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tinyE: Yeah that's a problem.

In order to be more discreet and not give any people any bad ideas about me, I just rename those programs things like "Hot_Wet_Fucking" and "Giant_Dicks_and_Tits".

Oh hey Chandra! Yeah, just let me collect my things and I'll be leaving. :D
Oh look :o)
Post edited November 25, 2018 by nightcraw1er.488
Posted November 25, 2018
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nightcraw1er.488: I am looking for suggestions on software, free or paid, which can cover the following:
Catalog photos either in situ, or within its own structure
Apply multiple tags to photos
Allow searching on tags
Run slideshow
Be fully offline, local install
For windows 64bit

Now I have had a look about, and there once was Picassa which was supposed to be the best, however this is no longer available anywhere as far as I can find. The other software which is presented as alternative always seems to be heavy on photo editing and manipulation and little else. I am only interested in organising my pictures (nearly 2tb!). Definitely not interested in anything online.
Worst comes to the worst I will just build my own DB for it, but wanted to check if there was anything already done.
ACDSee Standard does it all and isn't too expensive.
Posted November 25, 2018
The one that comes with Windows 10 is awful, that is all I can say.
Posted November 25, 2018
I can think of several.

…They're all on Linux, so good luck finding a Windows Port.

Right now, I have Risotto installed as my photo manager, because I just keep my actual photos somewhere in Google Photos.
Posted November 25, 2018
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Post edited December 04, 2018 by Paraharaha
Posted November 25, 2018
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Themken: The one that comes with Windows 10 is awful, that is all I can say.
Because it's just a Photo viewer... no tagging or database features.
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