Cataloguing Artwork - What software to use?

[DaveGFX]

Heya

Was wondering whether anybody knew of any software that was good for cataloguing images? For example, I like to save reference images to my hard drive, but its sometimes hard to find what I want months later.

Ideally, i'd like something that previews all images in a folder, and allows you to assign keyword descriptions to them. At the moment, i've just started using ACDSee which seems pretty good, but anyone use anything else that they find effective?

[Fipse]

Hi Dave,

as ACDsee is "just" a viewer we´re using for our archives Extensis Portfolio. It´s - as a single user license - comparatively cheap (at least towards Cumulus) and quite powerful. It´s got database functions, so you can add Keywords to every picture and ahs advanced search functions.

Hope this could help you

Fipse

[Cannibal80]

ACDSee is the best, last I checked. But the new Photoshop (or PS Elements) has a database function, batch rename, image info (very extensive) all that stuff. It even has a search engine for images only! :thumbsup:

Photoshop is kinda expensive though... :xx: