Photo library of doom!

[Megamess]

Hey everyone-
My company has started a photo depository for all photos taken on our different jobsites. So I have all these photos now and I have been charged with indexing and organizing this new library. It's kind of a big mess right now. What I really want is something to help me automate the whole process and it would be sweet if I could add keywords to each pic and then be able to search later. Does anyone have any ideas??? Thanks!

[phenn]

Absolutely, Lightroom. It does all this and more. The final release is going to be rather cheap for a month or so. After that, the price is still right at $299.

NAPP did a bunch of learning center videos for it.
http://www.photoshopuser.com/lightroom/index.html

I don't know when Adobe will release a trial version, but the Public Beta will be expiring this month. More details here:
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/

LR does keywords, library and folder management, watermarking, contact pages, web gallery and slide show functions like a breeze. I'm personally hooked.

[Megamess]

Thanks so much- it sounds perfect- I'll definitely check into it!

[ldrain]

LR is great, easy to use and understand. especially if you are used to adobe apps. we pre-ordered a copy when it was announced a few weeks ago, but we can't get it until the 18th or 19th of this month i believe. good luck with your cataloging, you will need it. :D

[The Repro Kid]

Lightroom is an Adobe catch-up rip-off of Aperture.

Apple Aperture. check it out.