Re: Organizing digital images

**R*@ci.orlando.fl.us**

Hello:L

I too have used several different data bases for storage of slides and have
never been very happy  with any one program.  You are right -- many are
very cutesy and provide "albums" and so on.  Not exactly what you are
looking for.

I know that my suggestion to you might not be very sophisticated but it
works very, very well for us here at Leu Gardens (Orlando) and we don't
have to learn another program.  We simply down load our photographs into
the computer using Microsoft Explorer.  While in Explorer you can change
the camera format title "P23005" for instance to "Gentian corymbifera.jpg"
and drag it into a file folder labeled "Alpines - New Zealand" on your hard
drive.  If you would like the same photo in any other file folders for easy
reference simply drag it to that folder as well.

It is not uncommon for me to drag a photo of a perennial  flower to a
"Perennial" folder then also to a "Spring Flower" folder and maybe even to
a "Flowers for Containers" folder.  When I go on a lecture trip I take many
photos of flowers and hard scape.  Many photos could end up in four or five
different folders.  The only reason I suggest this is because when you
double click on the individual photo the system defaults to Microsoft Photo
Editor and adjustments in brightness/contrast or rotation can happen at
that time.  You already know how to use Windows so why subject yourself to
learning ONE MORE PROGRAM !?  If you are like me, the ol' gray matter just
can't absorb what it used to and anything to make my life simpler is always
welcome.  The folks who run our technology department here think nothing of
changing programs on a moments notice only to have us learn another
program.  I have been overloaded more than once with new technology.

You might seriously consider upgrading your hard drive also.  This photos
can take a great deal of space (photos can range from 256k in a .jpg format
to 11mg's in a .tif format) so a hard drive with 60 - 80 gigs would be
worth thinking about and the cost now is only $110-150.

I hope this helps.  This would be a great topic of a presentation at the
GWAA national meeting!

Robert Bowden
Director
Leu Gardens
Orlando

                      "Yvonne Cunnington"                                                                                                       
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Like so many people this Christmas it seems, we finally got ourselves a
digital camera. (A Nikon Coolpix 5000, for you digital buffs out there. The
learning curve has started!) I'm going to be using the camera for
photoscouting for magazines and updating images for my website and the
like.

However, my husband wants to use the camera to document his collection of
alpines, and his alpine travels, and is looking for a good database program
to organize his images. Does anyone have experience with such programs, for
example ACD-See? He was looking at that one, but it seems to have a 'family
snapshot orientation', so he wondered if it would be professional enough.

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