Digital Photographer's Software Guide - Bertemes - Net

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Shoebox is much appreciated by many users who like its straightforward layout, logical
structure, and powerful searching. Bringing images into a cataloging system—any cataloging
system—is always a chore, no matter how the categories are structured. But once
done, the “digital asset management” benefits become obvious. On an Apple Cinema
Display, surfing your photos in Shoebox becomes compulsive, with switching between
thumbnail, list, and slide show views in full screen mode. It even supports dual displays,
so you can have thumbnails on one and whole-screen photos on the other. Shoebox may
lack the processing features of Aperture, but it is a big step up from iPhoto and able to
handle half a million pictures.
Version: Shoebox 1.7.2 (2008)
OS: Mac OS X 10.4 or later
RAM: 256MB
Supported file formats: Major RAW; DNG, JPEG, CRW, NEF, PDF, PNG, TIFF, GIF, and so on
Price level: Express $30, Pro approx. $80
Address: info@kavasoft.com
www.kavasoft.com
Summary
Chapter 5 ■ Cataloging 57
In the absence of software to classify images automatically by their content (it will come
eventually), photographers must use cataloging software that demands the input of text
descriptions. Software in this category is therefore somewhat demanding of user time,
but it can be time well spent because it enables more effective searching at a later date.
ACDSee remains the benchmark, but other packages offer plenty of facilities at a competitive
price. Check out PixFiler for its Geotagging features, or IMatch with its excellent
handling of Exif, IPTC, and XMP metadata.