![]() ![]() The thumbnails generated by ACDSee are cached so that they do not need to be regenerated.ĪCDSee does not import images into its database (such as e.g. ACDSee started as an image organizer/viewer, but over time had image editing and RAW development (Pro version) capabilities added. For professional, users most of ACDSee's features can be accessed via keyboard.ĪCDSee's main shortcoming is the lack of PNG alpha channel support.ĪCDSee displays a tree view of the file structure for navigation with thumbnail images of the selected folder, and a preview of a selected image. Judging the image quality of a picture is fast due to next/previous image caching, fast image/RAW decoding and support for one-click toggling between 100% and fit screen zoom mode anywhere inside the image. One more program that I often call upon is Advanced Renamer it can do all sorts of things that I have not yet learned how to do plus, it can remove, replace, or add numbers, symbols, or letters, to either end or anywhere in the middle of a whole batch of filenames.ACDSee, ACDSee Pro and ACDSee Free are image organizer, viewer, and RAW / image editor programs.ĪCDSee's main features are speed, lossless RAW/image editing, image batch processing, metadata (EXIF/IPTC), with support to edit/embed metadata in image files, rating, keywords, and categories, and geotagging/GPS support. to rename and organize images that are already in the computer (mostly other peoples images/computers), where someone else has either not followed any organizational plan at all, or done a random hack job at renaming that only made sense at the time and is forever after a mystery. copies the image pairs, RAW and Large jpeg, from the memory card to organized dated folders and custom renames them in the process, providing the same name for all image pairs. The first being FastStone FastStone is the backbone and workhorse of everything else I do with image files everything else I do begins and ends in FastStone. I do have two programs that I would be crippled without unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, both are Windows Only. Same here I jump around from program to program, using whichever is best suited for the task at hand. I’m fine with using multiple programs for tasks to which they are most suited Does anybody have experience with this? Any other ideas or suggestions? Something I haven’t been able to test is the compatibility of the metadata of each program with LR and Photo Mechanic. Also, IPTC doesn’t seem to have a “title” field, which seems like a shortcoming.ĭigiKam has a more professional feel to it. From what I understand, XMP is the future. ![]() I really like XnView’s batch processes, but of course I could use those even if I did the DAM with digiKam.ĭigiKam writes XMP metadata as well as IPTC, whereas XnView seems stuck with IPTC. With digiKam I need to use exiftool from the terminal, which is not a big deal for me, but would be for a client. digiKam only copies the photographer/contact information to a template, so if you’re adding another image to a series you need to manually enter the caption and keyword information. It’s easy to make a template that copies all the metadata that you can paste into another image. No hard decisions yet so I wonder what experience others have with these. ![]() I’ve been experimenting with digiKam and XnView MP to catalogue images for clients as well as my own images. ![]()
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