Photo organizing program?

[mudslag]

Im in need of a good photo organization tool for pc, something that can help clean up multiple copies of images from different folders as well as helping distinguish different images with same name. I have way to many backups of photos from different phones as well as older images that are scattered across different hard drives. Just need to get all of them organized.

 

[bgd]

I'm doing just this at the moment. I'm using Adobe Lightroom. It does have pretty good photo management capabilities. I was already aware of LR, a little research convinced me it was the way to go.

So far so good. Time consuming process though - I'm up to 2007

 

[ProwlingTiger]

Lightroom is where its at. I've used it since it was in beta as LR1.

 

[jojoba]

Another vote for Lightroom here.

 

[jdphoto]

Don't thing anything can really beat Lightroom at the moment. It's what I use

 

[robgendreau]

I love Lightroom myself, but there are some others.

There's open source dupeguru, which also has a picture-specific version (dupeguru-pictures or something). It can use some fairly sophisticated tools to compare files.

And MacPhun just came out with a photo browser called Snapselect, $15 in the Mac App Store. I believe it can group duplicates and has a pretty cool interface. But unfortunately there's no demo version, so I dunno if you wanna risk the money on it. But take a look.

The advantage of LR is that it will not only help with this project, but should continue to keep you organized for years to come.