Comment Off the shelf image management (Score 1) 167
As an amateur photographer that needed to manage 1500 to 2000 images monthly, I evaluated several Windows based image management solutions and found IMatch to be an excellent solution. The tool provides robust cataloging and searching, plus provides easy automation for common tasks like image scaling, cropping and watermarking. While not the most robust solution for large and complicated scripting tasks, the VBA like scripting language it provides is easy enough to use to dump all relevant data out in XML so as to build custom scripts/applications in whatever external languages you desire.
Hands down this is the most useful application I've purchased in the last couple of years, and while I cannot claim with certainty that it would scale to managing the volume of images mentioned, it certainly seems capable of it. An evaluation version of the tool is available at the site and the price is great for the level of functionality it provides.
Hands down this is the most useful application I've purchased in the last couple of years, and while I cannot claim with certainty that it would scale to managing the volume of images mentioned, it certainly seems capable of it. An evaluation version of the tool is available at the site and the price is great for the level of functionality it provides.
