I'm a long-time user of MC for all my audio needs. I have thousands of files and several zones of playback. Based on what I've used, MC is easily the easiest and best system to organize and play music. Unfortunately, I can't say the same about photos. My question is what do people do with photos? I have almost as many digital photos as I do songs (12000+). With MediaCenter, I can tag them, but that's about it. Since I do a lot with the server, the files are not useful to the clients because my wife can't do anything with the files except look at them. She wants to be able to email and edit them. Plus, there are lots of programs that specialize in photos and do a much better job.
My problem is that I want the best of both worlds. I want easy photo organization, integration with commercial printers, web album creation, etc., AND I want to be able to share all my files from my central server in a way that makes it easy for my wife to find the photo she wants.
Anyone have any strategies for this? I don't want to maintain two sets of tags and albums. Right now, I use Adobe Photoshop Elements to organize, edit, print, and publish my photos to my family web site. The thing is I want a way to share the photos from my central server and display them, and Adobe can't do that.
I searched though the archives a bit, but I didn't find too much recent info.
My current plan is to use Adobe to organize everything and come up with a file naming scheme that helps locate photos. Then, I will import the photos into MC so I can share them easily. Hopefully, with the filenames, my wife can find files based on the location.
Anyone have a better option that lets me use all the power in Adobe and still be able to locate and share files in MC? Is there a way to import/export tag information between the two programs?
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One thing to note is that I haven't done a lot of organizing yet. I have an entire day set aside next week to get this all straighten out. Till now, I've been doing things with some tagging in MC, but that isn't working out.