Photoshop
Album 2.0 is out. Sounds like they have fixed #1 and #2 of
the 3 showstopper problems I identified when I played with it
over the summer:
1. Top-level categories are limited to the 4 pre-defined ones
(this is hard to believe, so maybe I just didn't figure out how
to add them, but either way...)
2. Sub-categories only one level deep.
3. Does not respect existing Windows folder/file naming.
#3 is still a showstopper. I WILL NOT use photo software where
I think there is any chance of getting "locked in the trunk"
by the publisher.
I will stick with Mario Westphal's amazing, but dense, iMatch.
It's an astoundingly rich product, clearly professional-level,
but with a very steep learning curve. Inconceivable that anyone
who is not a near-power user could make this product work.
I just wish it had a little cleaner interface. For instance,
all the other programs I have looked at have a single button
to rotate images. In iMatch, first you get the right-click (over
30 items, longest I have ever seen) menu. Then you select the
Transform expanding sub-menu. From that, you select the Image
expanding sub-menu, from which you finally select "Rotate 90".
Note that even getting to step 1 requires realizing that "rotate"
is going to be found under "transform"! The consolation is that
you can multi-select the thumbnails and rotate them in a batch.
But it has amazing features (Many of them I don't even fully
understand, not being a photo hobbyist.) For batch-renaming,
it uses regular expressions! But again, a bit intimidating if
you don't have the foggiest what regex are.
12:53:46 PM 
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