The first being FastStone FastStone is the backbone and workhorse of everything else I do with image files everything else I do begins and ends in FastStone. I do have two programs that I would be crippled without unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, both are Windows Only.
Same here I jump around from program to program, using whichever is best suited for the task at hand. I’m fine with using multiple programs for tasks to which they are most suited Does anybody have experience with this? Any other ideas or suggestions? Something I haven’t been able to test is the compatibility of the metadata of each program with LR and Photo Mechanic.
#Xnview mp vs classic professional#
Also, IPTC doesn’t seem to have a “title” field, which seems like a shortcoming.ĭigiKam has a more professional feel to it. From what I understand, XMP is the future. I really like XnView’s batch processes, but of course I could use those even if I did the DAM with digiKam.ĭigiKam writes XMP metadata as well as IPTC, whereas XnView seems stuck with IPTC. With digiKam I need to use exiftool from the terminal, which is not a big deal for me, but would be for a client. digiKam only copies the photographer/contact information to a template, so if you’re adding another image to a series you need to manually enter the caption and keyword information. It’s easy to make a template that copies all the metadata that you can paste into another image.
No hard decisions yet so I wonder what experience others have with these. I’ve been experimenting with digiKam and XnView MP to catalogue images for clients as well as my own images.
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