Friday, October 08, 2004
Wired 12.10: Point. Shoot. Kiss It Good-Bye.
I've been away a while, welcoming our new family member into the world, but now I'm back. Here's an interesting piece about how we might be better organise our digital pics. While I've been at home doing the parenting thing, my digital camera has had quite a workout, as we do our utmost to record baby's first few weeks. I've found myself wanting more ways to organise my digital pics, and I've tried out Adobe Photo Album and Google's Picasa. Both have their own plus and minus points. Photo Album lets you add metadata tags to catalogue your snaps, but this process is manual and time consuming. Picasa does some automated filtering based on what you've done with the pics (emailed them, printed them etc). But I still struggle sometimes to find the exact pic I want, especially when I'm moving between Photo Album and the application that sends my pics off to be printed. The idea of automated processing, as described in the article, sounds promising, but just how reliable will it be?
I've been away a while, welcoming our new family member into the world, but now I'm back. Here's an interesting piece about how we might be better organise our digital pics. While I've been at home doing the parenting thing, my digital camera has had quite a workout, as we do our utmost to record baby's first few weeks. I've found myself wanting more ways to organise my digital pics, and I've tried out Adobe Photo Album and Google's Picasa. Both have their own plus and minus points. Photo Album lets you add metadata tags to catalogue your snaps, but this process is manual and time consuming. Picasa does some automated filtering based on what you've done with the pics (emailed them, printed them etc). But I still struggle sometimes to find the exact pic I want, especially when I'm moving between Photo Album and the application that sends my pics off to be printed. The idea of automated processing, as described in the article, sounds promising, but just how reliable will it be?
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