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. 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. Translations for many languages as well as a brand new and convenient modular. 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. XnViewMP comes with an easy to use yet powerful batch conversion module. 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. Press the Windows key, search for Paint and click to open. Under the Pointer Options tab, uncheck Enhance pointer precision then press OK. 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. Press the Windows key, type Mouse settings, and click Open. It’s easy to make a template that copies all the metadata that you can paste into another image. It's the ubiquitous Swiss Army knife image viewer that fits my needs. No hard decisions yet so I wonder what experience others have with these. XnView works on a generous freemium model that is free for non-commercial use with a modest 30 price for commercial users. Since they are free why not just load them onto you machine and use them? The use of the features and their value will be unique to you.I’ve been experimenting with digiKam and XnView MP to catalogue images for clients as well as my own images.
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