using 1-5 for the number of stars on a picture and 6-9 for color assignments. I can assign keyboard shortcuts to tags that are frequently used and the various ways of favoriting or labeling images are still there (i.e. The tagging seems to be just as intuitive and easy as it used to be in Idimager. This allows for more powerful searching functions. The “People” and “Family” tags are assigned automatically as soon as an image is tagged with “Bill Ruhsam”. For example, I can assign a tag to myself (“Bill Ruhsam” )which is within the hierarchy of “Family” and “People”. You could assign all tags as plain keywords, but that would defeat a lot of the utility of the hierarchical tag assignments. Idimager, and now Photo Supreme, approaches tagging a bit differently than other programs in that, while all tags are keywords, they are also hierarchical in nature. Remember that tagging is synonymous with assigning keywords in other programs. The first real task I tried was tagging some images. My first impression was that the layout was much cleaner and more user-friendly-looking than Idimager 2 I downloaded and installed Photo Supreme version 1.8.1.131 and imported a folder of images that I had lying around. Lightroom didn’t allow that.īut today, we’re looking at Photo Supreme, not Idimager and/or Lightroom from two years ago. That was the place where Idimager’s faults became its features: it was personally customizable through the batch functions you built yourself. What it didn’t do as well as Idimager did, was the tagging and export batch functions. I know what Lightroom can do, and it meets the requirements I have above. 1 Now that I’m evaluating a change to Photo Supreme, I’m back in the same boat.
I don’t trust the cloud for primary files, nor will I always be internet-connected.Īs I have a job and other things to do, the list of products that I evaluated in the past was relatively short: Idimager and Adobe Lightroom. I don’t object to using cloud backups or the like, but I want control of my own data. Having to move folders using other file management utilities and then individually find and relocate each folder or file is a total bust and would be a no-go for selecting a software product. A required feature of a photo management database is the ability to move these files and folders around and have the database updated simultaneously. These files are subdivided into hundreds of different folders. According to Idimager, I have 54,001 files attached to its database. A few years ago, this wouldn’t be a required feature, but now I want it, dammit. Each of these batch operations has slightly different parameters (size, sharpening, whatever) and it’s nice to be able to select some images, push a button, and done. Not to belabor this list, but I export to Flickr, to a local folder for my iPhone syncing, to another local folder for blogging, to Dropbox for sharing, and to various other places. One of the things that Idimager trained me to use is a series of batch operations for sending photos to various places for various reasons. I want to do this natively in the photo database software. I don’t want to load Photoshop just to crop, adjust white balance, pump up the contrast, or whatever. This is the power of a good tagging program and the key feature. I can also search and find all of the images that (say) have “baby” and “boa constrictor” in the tags, rather than looking through all the individual “baby”-labeled shots for the one with the snake. Later on I’ll be able to select them all and reassign the tag as “”. For example, for the past few months I’ve been assigning the tag “baby” to images that particularly deal with Jenn’s pregnancy or items surrounding the child to be.
This is the most important one for me as I spend 90% of my time with the images assigning tags (labels, keywords) to them so that I can find them later. Easy and intuitive tagging and retrieval of images.To recap, there are several key features that I require for my photo management software: Photo Supreme is the software that has replaced it and I am inclined to keep going with this stable of products simply to be sure I keep some of the functionality I’ve spent years learning and depending on. A few months ago I lamented that Idimager had been discontinued and that I was going to have to figure something out.
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