Windows Photo Gallery Substitute

[Mikey Juva]

I recently put a 64 bit machine together, and everything is fine except that
WPG takes too long to load. A synopsis of the issue here:

http://www.vistax64.com/general-discussion/193559-64-bit-windows-photo-gallery-slowww.html

At any rate, there doesn't seem to be a solution for this problem, but I
need a speedy, nimble viewer that also uses WPG's xmp based tagging and
rating system. This is important because often, while on the phone with
clients, I need to quickly search for a business image. I have all my images
tagged, and before installing Vista 64, WPG worked great.

Can someone recommend a viewer that is light, fast and also recognizes Vista
WPG's rating system (I know that Adobe uses xmp and recognizes WPG's tags
and ratings, but not light or fast enough)?

Any suggestions appreciated,
Juva

 

[Mikey Juva]

I recently put a 64 bit machine together, and everything is fine except
that WPG takes too long to load. A synopsis of the issue here:

http://www.vistax64.com/general-discussion/193559-64-bit-windows-photo-gallery-slowww.html

At any rate, there doesn't seem to be a solution for this problem, but I
need a speedy, nimble viewer that also uses WPG's xmp based tagging and
rating system. This is important because often, while on the phone with
clients, I need to quickly search for a business image. I have all my
images tagged, and before installing Vista 64, WPG worked great.

Can someone recommend a viewer that is light, fast and also recognizes
Vista WPG's rating system (I know that Adobe uses xmp and recognizes WPG's
tags and ratings, but not light or fast enough)?

Any suggestions appreciated,
Juva

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Use the Pictures explorer. Click Start > Pictures. Same search facilities
and it recognizes file extensions too.

 

[Mikey Juva]

Use the Pictures explorer. Click Start > Pictures. Same search facilities
and it recognizes file extensions too.

Hi Andre,

Thanks for the suggestion. The only problem is that I keep my images on
their own partition and not in the Pictures folder. Also, Explorer is much
too slow when searching tags, even though my image partition is indexed. In
WPG, when you type the beginning letters of the tag, all pertinent tagged
images appear immediately.

WPG is actually still very fast when loading single images, or after the
library is already loaded, but 13 seconds for the initial load is entirely
too slow.

Thanks again for your comments. Any other suggestions appreciated.

Juva

 

[Dave Cox]

I recently put a 64 bit machine together, and everything is fine
except that WPG takes too long to load. A synopsis of the issue
here:

http://www.vistax64.com/general-discussion/193559-64-bit-windows-ph
oto-gallery-slowww.html

At any rate, there doesn't seem to be a solution for this problem,
but I need a speedy, nimble viewer that also uses WPG's xmp based
tagging and rating system. This is important because often, while
on the phone with clients, I need to quickly search for a business
image. I have all my images tagged, and before installing Vista
64, WPG worked great.

Can someone recommend a viewer that is light, fast and also
recognizes Vista WPG's rating system (I know that Adobe uses xmp
and recognizes WPG's tags and ratings, but not light or fast
enough)?

Any suggestions appreciated,
Juva

You might check out AcdSee, to see if it fits your needs

http://store.acdsee.com/store/acd/ContentTheme/pbPage.3up_holiday/Theme
ID.834200/pgm.12507400

or

http://tinyurl.com/5nhopt

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Even if it were on another partition and you browse it from within Vista,
all the same facilities would still be available to you. If you want more
advanced capabilities I would recommend investing in something like the
latest version of Adobe Photoshop Elements which includes the image manager
'Adobe Bridge'.

 

[Mikey Juva]

Even if it were on another partition and you browse it from within Vista,
all the same facilities would still be available to you.

But as I stated, not nearly as fast as WPG (which is almost instantaneous),
plus, for Explorer browsing, I like details view for my images. Using it to
search for the right image means I would have to keep changing back and
forth between the views. And did I mention that WPG blows Explorer out of
the water when it comes to searching tags and file names? And thumbnail
loading on start up is instant (Explorer takes forever to load thumbnails,
even small ones).

If you want more advanced capabilities I would recommend investing in
something like the latest version of Adobe Photoshop Elements which
includes the image manager 'Adobe Bridge'.

I've not mentioned that I want 'more advanced capabilities', and I received
Bridge when I installed CS3. I may just have to learn to live with the slow
loading. At least WPG is still its old self once it loads.

Thanks for your suggestions,
Juva

 

[Mikey Juva]

You might check out AcdSee, to see if it fits your needs

http://store.acdsee.com/store/acd/ContentTheme/pbPage.3up_holiday/Theme
ID.834200/pgm.12507400

or

http://tinyurl.com/5nhopt

Thanks, Dave. I've heard good things about AcdSee, but I was hoping for a
little cheaper solution. Plus, all I really need it to do is load fast, load
thumbnails instantly and search fast. I use LightRoom to catalog and
organize and CS3 to edit. Maybe I'll just live with it until W7 is released.

Thanks,
Juva