I want to start a photo album using Access2003

[Frank Martin]

Can someone give me a start on this project?

I have about 5000 scanned and downloaded photos in folders in WindowsXP pro
and I want to use Access2003 to tag these with keywords, and then use a
query to select sets based on these keywords.

I guess I will have to get the photos into a table somehow.


Please help, Frank

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

The sample imaging databases at http://accdevel.tripod.com illustrate three
approaches to handling images in Access, and the download includes an
article discussing considerations in choosing an approach. Two of the
approaches do not use OLE Objects and, thus, avoid the database bloat, and
some other problems, associated with images in OLE Objects.

If you are printing the images in reports, to avoid memory leakage, you
should also see MVP Stephen Lebans' http://www.lebans.com/printfailures.htm.
PrintFailure.zip is an Access97 MDB containing a report that fails during
the Access formatting process prior to being spooled to the Printer Driver.
This MDB also contains code showing how to convert the contents of the Image
control to a Bitmap file prior to printing. This helps alleviate the "Out of
Memory" error that can popup when printing image intensive reports.

 

[Frank Martin]

Many thanks for this. I will check it out.
Regards, Frank

 

[Arvin Meyer [MVP]]

PictureMgr on my website is a free sample database that is already set up to
do this for you.

http://www.datastrat.com/Download/Picture2K.zip

It will catalog them in the database automatically, but you will need to
supply your own keyword tags.
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
Free Access downloads
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.mvps.org/access