Every day, the world takes an incalculable number of photos. Instagram alone is responsible for roughly 95 million photos a day, and that doesn't count all the images that are sent to different services, shot with DSLRs, or never uploaded. If you love your smartphone or digital camera, you're probably taking hundreds (if not thousands) of photos all by yourself each year, and if you're a professional photographer that photo collection will grow much faster. As a result, many photographers find themselves stuck with a huge number of images and no good way to sort through them. Your computer's operating system may include a very means of organizing your images, such as the macOS Photos app, but it's often hard for a simple program to keep up with the incredible number of images created in the modern world. So what's a photographer to do?

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Choose a dedicated photo management program, of course! After some careful testing using my own roughly-organized photo collection, I've selected as the best photo management program, no matter whether you've got a few images to sort through or thousands. It has a solid set of filters and tags, it's easy to use, and it's quite responsive when handling photo collections with tens of thousands of images. It even provides statistics about the images you've got in your collection, and we all love Big Data. I'm going to be using it for my personal collection moving forwards, and I refuse to compromise on quality when it comes to the software I choose.

If you're a casual photographer looking for a great photo manager on a budget, you may want to look at the free alternatives I tested. They provide more basic flagging and filtering of your collection, but you can't argue with the price. The interfaces take a bit of time to get used to, and are not nearly as capable as ACDSee, but they can still help you bring order to the chaos of an unsorted 'Photos' folder. Hi, my name is Thomas Boldt, and I'm an avid photographer. I've worked as a professional product photographer in addition to my own personal photography practice, and I have to admit that before I finished these reviews, my personal photo collection was a mess.

I organized my images based roughly on the time they were photographed, but that was the extent of it. Nature photographs got mixed in with experimental abstract art, and occasionally a memory card dump would include some work images mixed in. I would sporadically tag things in Lightroom, but it could hardly be called organized. So wait, you're asking yourself, why would that make me trust you about photo management, Thomas? Simple: my need for the best photo management software is the same as yours, and the winner for large collection management is what I'm now using for my personal photos. Once I accepted that my collection needed organization (grudgingly, since I always love photographing more than organizing), I decided that I would only be using the best photo management software available.

There's still some work to do, but I've found a system that works quite well - and you can use it too. Last but not least, it's important to point out that I received no compensation of any kind from the associated software developers for writing this article, and they had no editorial input or review of the content.

The Ins and Outs of Image Metadata All photo organization is accomplished through metadata (data about your data) that is included in your image files. It can describe the basics of your camera settings or be as thorough as full keywords identifying subjects, the photographer, location details, and so on. There is a standardized metadata system called IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council) which is the most widely-supported cross-program method of tagging.

It's used by many stock photo sites and press associations, and is the safest way to ensure your images are properly tagged. You can read and write these tags natively in the Windows and macOS operating systems, but only for certain common file types like JPEG. If you're looking at RAW files, your OS will probably let you view the associated tags, but won't let you edit them. You'll need a photo manager or editor to do that, since your OS doesn't know how to re-save your RAW files. Eventually, Adobe came along and decided that users needed a more flexible system, and created the XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) standard. This incorporates IPTC tags and allows for some cross-program tagging functionality, but unfortunately, not every program is able to read that data. Search engines are also relying more heavily on metadata in their efforts to provide the most accurate search results.

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