These files are subdivided into hundreds of different folders. According to Idimager, I have 54,001 files attached to its database. A few years ago, this wouldn’t be a required feature, but now I want it, dammit. Each of these batch operations has slightly different parameters (size, sharpening, whatever) and it’s nice to be able to select some images, push a button, and done. Not to belabor this list, but I export to Flickr, to a local folder for my iPhone syncing, to another local folder for blogging, to Dropbox for sharing, and to various other places. One of the things that Idimager trained me to use is a series of batch operations for sending photos to various places for various reasons. I want to do this natively in the photo database software. I don’t want to load Photoshop just to crop, adjust white balance, pump up the contrast, or whatever. This is the power of a good tagging program and the key feature. I can also search and find all of the images that (say) have “baby” and “boa constrictor” in the tags, rather than looking through all the individual “baby”-labeled shots for the one with the snake. Later on I’ll be able to select them all and reassign the tag as “”. For example, for the past few months I’ve been assigning the tag “baby” to images that particularly deal with Jenn’s pregnancy or items surrounding the child to be. This is the most important one for me as I spend 90% of my time with the images assigning tags (labels, keywords) to them so that I can find them later. Easy and intuitive tagging and retrieval of images.To recap, there are several key features that I require for my photo management software: Photo Supreme is the software that has replaced it and I am inclined to keep going with this stable of products simply to be sure I keep some of the functionality I’ve spent years learning and depending on. A few months ago I lamented that Idimager had been discontinued and that I was going to have to figure something out.

Photo mechanics vs photo supreme