Need a good photo editor organizer. A lil' help, please?

I am in the market for a photo editor. I am not a professional, but
would like nice photo editing features. I am also keenly interested in
any photo organization functions.

I have hunderds of old slides and photos to scan in. I noticed that I
could add information about each photo in Windows File Explorer. I
love that function. I did some photo editing in Adobe Photoshop CS and
saw that it deleted all the information I entered and would not allow
me to re-enter it.

I like the ability to see this photo information in Windows File
Explorer so that I don't have to open a special photo editor in orer to
see it.

One question- Regardless of which way I go, what are the chances that
with advances in Windows operating systems or other software this
method of attaching information will become obsolete and lost? Isn't
there some standard we can count on for the future?

 

Honestly, look to Apple. Right now, with iPhoto 5 under Mac OS X, you
can have a powerful photo editing and organizing tool. The Windows users
will deny this, but if you want to see what's going to happen with
Windows in the next few years, check out an Apple Mac with Tiger right
now. You can buy a Mac mini for well under $1000 right now that will
have everything on it the digital photography hobbyest needs, right out
of the box, but without concerns about spyware, adware, and viruses.
Check out http://www.apple.com for details.

 

Try the Gimp. It is powerful and free.

 

For windows users, try Googles Picasa2. It has some basic editing
tools, but I find it's the best software for organising and sharing
your photos. And it's free.

 

Thanks for info. Can you tell me your thoughts on adding metadata
information attached to each photo? I like the concept, but want to
make sure that it is not lost with subsequent revisions of software for
both OS's or photo editors/organizers.

 

You can look at Paint Shop Pro Photo Album. It was a JASC product until
Corel bought them.

http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel3/Products/Display&pfid=1047024307383

 

Photoshop Elements 3.0.

 

Unless it has been added, Picassa 2 does not organize photos on a CD. Google recently
released Spindle Search to extend their Desktop Search capability to CDs.

Paint Shop Photo Album
(http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satell.../Display&pfid=1047024307383&pid=1047023910213)
has some editing capability and organizes photos, and its main function is making slide
shows. You can try it free, and it is often on sale at considerbale savings.

 

Gosh, thanks for all the replies! I am horrible for asking for
something that does not exist.

After looking at it I think i like the Photoshop CS I have for editing
and I downloaded the Picassa 2 shown above and think it will be great
for organizing the photos. It looks like a mixture of proper file
folder formatting along with adding the metadata about each photo will
give me what I need.

Just hoped I could get all that with one program.

I guess I am still out of luck in adding this metadata in Picassa 2 and
being able to see it in Windows Explorer. That does not do that. I am
scred to death of adding all this info to the 1000's of slides only to
have it lost at some later date. I will have to be real careful or
store it in a separate file.

 

At the same time you might as well use Linux. A nice learning curve.

 

Its hard to beat Photoshop CS2 and Bridge from Adobe...easy to beat the
price though.