Need Help Finding Photo Organizing Software

[Dianepeters55]

I recently discovered my photo organizing software, Memory Manager, is possibly being discontinued in August. I am trying to find new software to organize my vast collection of pictures but I don't know where to start. The software doesn't have to be free I am open to purchasing software. Here are some of the things I'm looking for:

I want to be able to filter my photos by date taken within a certain category. For example I want to search for all dance photos taken in May 2013 and exclude all other photos from my search. I want to be able to change the date taken too in case the date is wrong.

I want to be able to tag photos so I can find them faster.

I want the ability to create my own hierarchy so I can organize my photos in logical buckets.

I want easy to use photo editing tools so I can adjust the color balance, contrast, crop, remove unwanted objects, etc...

If you have any suggestions please help me.

Thanks,
Diane

 

[mamaCta]

Adobe Photoshop Elements has a similar catalog system. It also has easy basic editing options as well as more indepth photoshop style abilities.

 

[photo_chick]

Lightroom is excellent image library management software with basic editing and RAW processing.

 

[Dianepeters55]

Thanks. I watched some videos on Lightroom and ended up ordering it. I think I may end up liking it more than my old tool.

 

[R o y]

I use LR for processing and simple edits, for more serious edits I use PSE.
LR is really good for organizing but you will have to put the work into it once you load your images into the library. Good luck

 

[jackdorsey]

I use Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder by MindGems.