Looking for photo management software

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Wycen

Explorer

• Mar 8, 2013

• #1

I am probably not having luck because I'm not coming up with the appropriate tech term for this, but I'm sure somebody will know once I explain what I'm trying to do.

I have a bunch of digital photographs I've downloaded from my camera onto my computer's harddrive. They are interesting documents I've found while volunteering at my local museum.

I want to write on the digital photos something along the top, bottom, side, wherever, something like "Courtesy of..." or "property of me". At some point in the future I hope to upload the more interesting stuff onto a blog for friends and whoever to see. The museum curator didn't request this but it seems the least I could do for crediting the museum with access to some really cool stuff.

And yeah, I understand digital images can be cropped and manipulated so someone could remove this and repost, this is supposed to be for fun, not profit.

Any suggestions? I'd prefer free and easy to use.

Thanks!

 

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LeStew

Explorer

• Mar 8, 2013

• #2

Photoshop is probably the most popular. Photoshop Elements is probably the easiest to use. It is kinda expensive. Apparently GIMP is open source, therefore free but I can't vouch for the ease of use.

Basically you need a "photo editor." Any program that claims to be will probably do what you need it to do with ease.

I would caution that more important that an editor is a program that organizes and allows you to tag and then search those tags might be as equally helpful.

Feel free to ask any questions. I am part owner of a small photo business.

 

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Wycen

Explorer

• Mar 9, 2013

• #3

Yeah, I found "tagging" software to organize stuff, but honestly it is somewhat easy, though perhaps not time efficient to go to each folder since they are organized by the date the photos got downloaded. I have a bunch of photos, but not A LOT of photos, (mostly I take multiple shots in case of shaky hands or shadows) and because the documents were already organized in some fashion, like a folder of stuff dedicated to street improvement, or departmental reports, or whatever topic the original filer dedicated that folder to.

Though I do have a bunch of photos related to my already finished final research project that really should be organized.

 

nerfherder

Explorer

• Mar 11, 2013

• #4

To catalogue, organise and publish (to flickr and facebook) my photos I use Adobe Lightroom. It's also good for 95% of the processing you want to do on photos (e.g. cropping, exposure adjustment, sharpening, noise reduction, minor corrections).

It costs £90 here, so I guess $120, which might be the deal-breaker for you.

 

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serviceproz

First Post

• Mar 20, 2013

• #5

You can use Adobe lightroom it is easy to use.
or you can use Photoscape.

 

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Joker

First Post

• Aug 14, 2013

• #6

LeStew said:

Photoshop is probably the most popular. Photoshop Elements is probably the easiest to use. It is kinda expensive. Apparently GIMP is open source, therefore free but I can't vouch for the ease of use.

Basically you need a "photo editor." Any program that claims to be will probably do what you need it to do with ease.

I would caution that more important that an editor is a program that organizes and allows you to tag and then search those tags might be as equally helpful.

Feel free to ask any questions. I am part owner of a small photo business.

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Adobe has made their entire CS2 suite available for free download. You can go to their website and find more information there.

 

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Janx

Hero

• Aug 14, 2013

• #7

I use Paint.NET (a free program) for my image editing needs. But I am not a graphic artist, nor am I needing to watermark hundreds of photos.

As LeStrew points out, a photo editor is for working on one picture at a time. Not really meant for a bulk task.

though it isn't really that hard to put the graphic "tag" into your clipboard and open, paste, save each file.

 

MarkB

Legend

• Aug 14, 2013

• #8

The technique you're looking for is called Watermarking, and there are specialised apps that can do it for you, individually or in batches.

I did a quick Google search for "watermark photos", and this one was linked in a Daily Telegraph article. The basic version is free, and I gave it a quick try - it's reasonably easy to use, and processed a batch of photos pretty quickly.

 

Nellisir

Hero

• Aug 15, 2013

• #9

MarkB said:

The technique you're looking for is called Watermarking, and there are specialised apps that can do it for you, individually or in batches.

I did a quick Google search for "watermark photos", and this one was linked in a Daily Telegraph article. The basic version is free, and I gave it a quick try - it's reasonably easy to use, and processed a batch of photos pretty quickly.

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This (advice, not the program.)

I didn't follow MarkB's link, but yes, you want watermarking, and it should be dead simple. I use Picasa (which is free), and it does watermarks.

 

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DenisZermeno

First Post

• Sep 24, 2015

• #10

yes, just like they told you the technique you're looking for is Watermarking, and there are lots of apps that can do it for you, in batch mode. I do try lots of "watermark software", and photo watermark was one of them, which is not bad. The download is free - it's basically easy to use, and processed a batch of photos most quickly.