After showing you the different photo editing software, the ones that make slideshows and the ones to use to put your photos in panoramics, here is the fourth part of my section " What software to use for ... " with this time a little turn side of the ranking software.
Why software to classify your photos?
A photography enthusiast does not just edit his photos. He must first classify, store, identify them in order to find them in the blink of an eye. It is out of the question for him to have to ask questions without stopping the style " She is already the picture I took of uncle Michel chased by a bull not very happy to see him approaching his cows? ".
Classifying and searching for images should not be the main activity of the photographer. The time to spend must be on their editing and not on their ranking. We provide skilled photoshop clipping path services, ikon background take away service in Photoshop. Cutout and alter the image to a white or clear background.
If you use the file explorer files of your operating system to do this job, it is unfortunately not enough. Beyond a certain number of images, it quickly becomes tedious because, whatever is the mode of classification chosen (by date, by event or a mix of both) it will arrive one day or the other or this system will not be any more accurate enough to allow you to quickly find your images. Then begins the tedious operation of opening files one after the other to see what they contain (and in this case, good luck to find the photo of uncle Michel with the bull on the buttocks ).
It is to answer this problem related to more and more photos on our hard disks that publishers have created software to classify and identify its images.
How do image filing software work?
This software, called cataloguers, all work in the same way:
the user selects the folders containing the images or directly on the map, the images he wants to classify/identify,
the selected images are indexed by the cataloging software and then appear as thumbnails,
the user marks, notes, assign a keyword (s) to these thumbnails, places them in collections, etc ... He does all this for one purpose: to retrieve a posteriori image (s) corresponding to one or more criteria.
This is the biggest advantage of the cataloguers: to be able to release THE picture among the thousands of images stored on the hard disk.
Of course, this system works perfectly only if the user is rigorous and takes the time to properly identify /note/mark his images according to the criteria he himself has defined. If this preliminary step is not respected, it loses much of the appeal of this type of software. In this case, find his photos can only be done through their data Exif.
So yes, this time, which some might call lost, is quickly caught up, in fine, by the few seconds needed to find the desired image.
It is important to understand here that the imported photos are not duplicated by the cataloguer on the hard drive. They are only indexed. The image that the user sees in his software is always in the same place on the hard disk. There are no duplicates, nothing has been changed (unless it changes the name of the folders containing the images of course). The fact that thumbnails are present here does not mean that the photos are in the software. This is just a shortcut in the form of a mini image to the source image, generated during indexing.
Then simply query the cataloguer (for example, show me the photos identified by both the keywords " Michel " and " humor ") to find almost instantly the image corresponding to the example cited at the beginning of the article.
Another important element to know about cataloguers: they are very often integrated with non-destructive editing software (Lightroom, Capture One Pro, Photos ...). Suddenly, it is often one and the same application that takes care of the organization of the photo library and the retouching of the images (it is always less software to manage).
Finally, be aware that there is another category of software related to catalogers: viewers. These allow, as their name suggests, to view the images on the hard disk of the computer. The essential difference between these two types of software is that catalogers use a database (the catalog) to manage the image library. To put it simply, one can summarize things in the following way: a visualizer is designed to display the images present on the hard disk and the cataloguer to organize them.
Since this article aims to present the software of image classification, I do not extend more to the presentation of the viewers.
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