Directly edit photos on Adobe Photoshop.Find photos instantly through Adobe Sensei, a built-in AI that recognizes faces, places, objects, etc.Organize images using tags, ratings, marks, etc., to create instant albums.You can also integrate this software with other Adobe programs like Photoshop and quickly import the project to edit and switch back to Lightroom. These features allow you to organize your photos at the spot when you take them, rather than spending hours organizing later on the laptop. It also offers various photo organizing options, including renaming, location, tags, folders, and more.
What’s best about this software is that you can easily sync it with your cloud, and it automatically backs up your data so that you can access it anywhere, anytime, on various devices. It also comes with powerful editing tools that are a great option for beginners and professional photographers. XnView for viewing pictures in folders and showing them on a second screenĮach of these tools have their strength and weaks, but for me all together make a good workflow which I'm used to.Price: $9.99/mo | Compatible with: Windows, macOS, Android, iOSĪdobe Lightroom is a powerful and user-friendly photo editor that is best for anyone looking to organize their images. For me these are different tools for different use-cases. It was not my intention to compare Picasa with IMatch. I can do this with Picasa with more or less one click.Īfter the release of IMatch5, I found out that I did more with IMatch, but still I'm using Picasa if I have the personal feeling it would be faster. One usecase I have is to select some pictures of a folder, copy them to another place, resize them for the web, but keep the folder structure. I used Picasa as a digital lightboard, and it is very good for fast copying of pictures. I do not know about the speed of Imatch 5.6, because so far from my side I did not saw the need for updating (I'm doing photography only as a hobby). XnView and at the time where I first got it, it was the time of IMatch 3.6, and it was definitly faster. I'm not talking about a DAM as a usecase, I'm talking about an ImageViewer like e.g.
I know that this is also possible with IMatch, and also smooth. The point of Picasa is that you do not have to click on folders if you want to see a new one, you just keep scrolling. "scrolling through a lot of images, especially when they are in different folders" This raises many privacy issues and is even illegal in many countries. These are affordable for private users, but all require IMatch to upload the photos to their servers (wherever these are located) and to maintain some form of "gallery" on these servers in order to recognize faces.
The only systems I could find are software as a service products, web-based services. I have tried, but I could not find an affordable and capable face recognition technology I could embed in IMatch. The ability to find persons on photos, and then find out who these persons interact with by linking them to the other persons on the same photo allows Google and their customers to learn about you, your activities, your family, your friends and colleagues. Doing face recognition and then linking faces to persons is an immensely profitable business. Google needs youtr photos on their servers in order to analyze them, link them with the other information they have about you. This is not in the interest of Google of course. This move by Google was long overdue because they cannot monetize photos managed by Picasa on the desktop. Now these users will continue to use Picasa as long as it works, and then switch to another free software or sign up for Google Photo. Many users use Picasa not because it was good, but because it had only a few buttons and was free. Has anyone here found other face recognition alternatives, or had experience in this with Lightroom CC?įrom my experience, this is unlikely. As far as I can tell, the only other potentially useful face recognition tool is in Lightroom CC, which I haven't tried yet. Picasa can be configured to store face data in xmp tags, and its recognition engine works pretty well, despite some limitations (tags are stored in JPG files only, not in raw xmp sidecar files). Some of these users might be potential customers for IMatch, although it's a much more sophisticated product.įrom my perspective, Picasa desktop has been useful just for face tagging without having to share this data on the web (assuming one hasn't signed in to Picasa/Google or shared photos with Google web sites). There are apparently a number of unhappy Picasa desktop users (Picasa desktop will continue to work, but it won't be updated - not that it apparently has been for the past few years.!). For those who might be interested, Google has announced that they are retiring Picasa and Picasa Web in favor of Google Photos:
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