[Discuss] Photo Manager

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Theodore Ruegsegger <gruntly at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Doug <sweetser at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> Are any photo managers altering tags within the photo file itself? Or
>> do any have options so you can keep information within the file or
>> not? I am pretty sure iPhoto does not alter the original file, great
>> is someways, but also leads to lock in.
>
> I've built a web application called Photo Album Manager that manages
> all metadata in a PostgreSQL database. Not sure that counts as
> lock-in, since it's all free software and it's easy to migrate data
> from one RDBMS to another.

Okay, why did you do this instead of using something like Gallery2?
http://gallery.menalto.com/

-derek

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