Wanted: Image Tagging Software

DarkMirage — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:44:11 +0000

While searching for pictures to be used for the next Japanese lesson chapter, I realized that I really need a new way of organizing my image folders. Sorting pictures by the series they come from is good and all, but it’s a pain when I want to look for, say, a picture of a character riding a bicycle. The worst thing is that since most of my pictures came from image BBS, their filenames are all strings of numbers which aren’t exactly very informative.

What’s more, whenever a nice picture of unknown origin comes along, I would just dump it into the “Unclassified” folder, or as I call it “The Black Hole”. When I eventually find out about a certain series months later, I am too lazy to search through the Black Hole to locate and reclassify everything from that series. So eventually most of the images on my hard drive end up in one huge browsing-unfriendly folder, forcing me to spend a lot of time looking for pictures when I blog… And that’s one of the reasons why the next Beginner’s Japanese chapter is overdue. No, really…

I need an image sorting software. After some half-hearted googling and trying out some freewares, I have yet to find a program that fits my requirements. What I need is a program that can:

Display images from multiple folders in a single list
Allow me to tag keywords to each picture
Batch tagging and renaming
Search and sort using associated keywords
Rename a file according to its tags (not important)

It doesn’t have to be freeware (*cough*). To put it simply, I need an offline version of danbooru.

Any suggestions?

help – Ramblings of DarkMirage

Wanted: Image Tagging Software