Software recommendations required please...

Spin_Dr_Wolf 15 Jun 2006 13:33:07 6,170 posts
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I'm after something that will allow me to page photographs on my PC view, and group them, aswell as being able to red the exif data in the files too, a kind of WinAmp for photos style thing.

Does anyone know of a particularly good example of one that includes the features above ? Cheers.

Spin_Dr_Wolf 15 Jun 2006 13:38:30 6,170 posts
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...preferably without a load of processess that will insist on running in the background for equipment i neither have or am ever likely to have !
ssuellid 15 Jun 2006 13:39:36 19,142 posts
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Picasa is very good - not a resource hog either.
Spin_Dr_Wolf 15 Jun 2006 13:42:02 6,170 posts
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Picasa eh ? Excellent will have to have a look.

/wanders off to look a Picasa 'tour'

ssuellid 15 Jun 2006 13:43:47 19,142 posts
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Picasa even can be used to get the photos off your camera and recognises ones that you have already transferred - very useful for those with a trigger happy camera user in the house.

Merlinho 15 Jun 2006 13:44:43 5,908 posts
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Slight hijack, but i have a load of photos I've taken which are about 2mb in size each, and taking up far too much space on my HD. Is there a good piece of software for converting them to a smaller resolution so I can free some space up?

Spin_Dr_Wolf 15 Jun 2006 15:27:54 6,170 posts
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Merlinho, any decent image manipulation tool will allow you to resize images, but i don't know of anything that will allow you to batch edit images and resize them. Picasa might, i will let you know once i have downloaded and had a little play with it.

ssuellid 15 Jun 2006 15:30:07 19,142 posts
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Picasa has an auto web page builder that resizes all the images you select so I'd guess it would also do this without the web page creation.
Dougs 15 Jun 2006 15:54:21 100,415 posts
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+1 for Picasa too. Great app.
otto Moderator 28 May 2007 11:16:19 49,322 posts
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Oh dear, time for me to pimp iView Media Pro again...
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