I have a lot of photos, photoshops, illustrator files, etc. and I'd like to be able toassign keywords to them.

I'd also like the program to allow images to be stored on removable media as well as my hard drive. (So that if I wanted something stored only a CD or something, the program might say something like "Please insert the disk labeled IMAGES 54" or something like that.

I tried Google's Picasa2 -- I'm impressed with its speed, but it's still Beta and seems like it. Not that many features, and interface still needs a lot of work. It's close to what I want but not there yet.

So... any suggestions?

Freeware and shareware is preferred... but...

For Mac it will be findit, very useful

I'm stucked on Picasa2 What I like is that it refreshes the catalog automaticaly whenever new pics are added. It can also remember CD's. Pretty much promising.

Picasa2 is wonderfull...and free

I use ACDSee and it hasn't let me down yet. I also have Picasa2 and although I prefer it's interface ACDSee is more fully functional. Hope this helps.

ACDSee, or IrfanView,that it's free.

Thanks for the alternatives mentioned so far... I will look into them & see if they work for me.

But I see that a lot of you DO use Picasa2.... so my new question is:

how do you deal with the removable storage issue?

I haven't tried it yet, but I was unhappy with the way Picasa imports files from CDs -- it ignores all folders and subfolders and just imports the images en masse. But a lot of times, it's very important for me to know what subfolders were used because (for example) they tell me that these images were source files for certain projects etc.

I have to start removing things from my hard drive... and also my wife is bugging me about our wedding photos...

am i missing something--why not just use the file browser app that comes bundled with photoshop itself?..you can assign keywords, batch rename,all kinds of good stuff--seems to work just fine 4 me

Um, lazy dumbass that I am, I haven't tried it yet.

I guess my issue with new software is I'd rather hear what OTHER people have to say about it so I don't have to live with it for a month, arrange my files around it, etc. only to find.. naah, I don't like it.

But actually PS sounds like a good bet.

Ok, then.

i agree this works great...

ACDSee Classic has served me well for years, I swear by it.

ACDC 5
Works a treat and you can have multi-windows open, some of the free programs dont allow that.