JRiver is Excellent for Photo Management
JRiver is known for its high quality audio and video, but it is equally powerful as a photo manager.
Though it's not generally viewed as a photo manager, there is no better solution than JRiver. You can manage large collections easily, find photos fast, and display them in some novel ways.
So how about making a start on organizing those 50,000 photos you've got "somewhere"? Maybe still on a phone.
Here are some tips to get you started. These are just the highlights. Please check our wiki and forum for more details.
Getting Your Photos Into JRiver
Your files are not moved during this process, so they'll continue to be available from the OS or however you're used to viewing.
1. You can use JRiver to "acquire" your photos from your phone. Be careful to tell it whether you want the photos left on the phone or not. Camera is located in the Action Window (lower left corner) and settings are there too.
2. You can set up auto-import under the Tools Menu to watch a folder on your computer and import pictures and other files it finds.
3. You can use Camera (Action Window) to paste from the clipboard. This is handy for finding album art on the Internet, using a Google search.
Moving Files Around
You don't need to move them, but if you want to, here's how.
4. You can use the very powerful JRiver tool called "Rename, Move, or Copy". It's under the Tools menu. Select a few files and try it. It can intelligently re-arrange your files on your disk.
5. You can drag photos onto your phone or use Handheld Sync. You can set up playlists to sync (Handheld settings).
Tagging and Management
Tags identify characteristics of the photo. Trip, Place, Subject, Friends, Family, etc. Anything that sorts the files into different categories.
6. Inside MC, you can select images and tag them. "Trip to Idaho", for example. There are people tags and others. Location is automatically used if your phone is set to add the GPS location to your photos.
7. You can delete photos you don't want (hard or soft delete). (Best practice is to delete them from the phone as soon as you take them, but who does that?)
8. You can add photos to a playlist so you can change the order and play them as a set.
9. Right click on any photo to make it your Desktop background.
10. Edit any photo by right clicking and choosing Edit. Crop, Resize, Rotate, Adjust, etc. MC automatically keeps the original and saves each change you make, so it's easy to revert. Save as lets you convert formats.
11. Select a photo or more and choose print in the Action Window. There are lots of options.
Playing
12. On playback, pause the slideshow with spacebar, zoom with mouse scroll wheel or number keys (position the cursor where you want it centered, and press 3 or 4 or ...).
13. Right click on any image to choose Preview Image. A filmstrip is shown on the right and a full size image on the left.
14. Enjoy your music while you organize and edit. Just start something playing first.
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