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posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 09:02pm on 14/02/2010
It's Mothering Sunday on March 14th (in the UK) and I'd like to scan a load of the family photos I've got from the loft and put them on a memory stick for my Mum.

I can do a few HTML pages, a list of the photos with links, and a few album-style pages showing thematic groups of photos.

What I would like to have is a way she can view groups of photos in categories of her choosing, e.g. by a person's name. Is there a fairly simple way I can do this, or an existing app? She's Windows and on dial-up. If it's a slightly more complicated way, I could maybe do a release 2.0 for her birthday in June :-)

So - app? Database? Tags? Hand-built folders of shortcuts to images? Give each photograph a really descriptive filename? A simple HTML document with a lot of Next/Back buttons?

Cheers!
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posted by [identity profile] sharikkamur.livejournal.com at 10:06pm on 14/02/2010
Picassa with tags?
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 10:17pm on 14/02/2010
Can that be run offline? I've only seen people's web albums (unless I've got confused)
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posted by [identity profile] sharikkamur.livejournal.com at 10:55pm on 14/02/2010
It'll let you do all sorts of things, including making html pages, collages and gift CDs, but the package itself runs offline.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 11:01pm on 14/02/2010
o_O

*investigates*
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posted by [identity profile] alexmc.livejournal.com at 11:12am on 15/02/2010
Flickr - or some PHP/MySQL application like Gallery 2.

A scanner with a sheet feeder *might* work for photos.

I appreciate that you said Windows and dial-up - but basically you need a decent connection to upload loads of photos anywhere.
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posted by [identity profile] alexmc.livejournal.com at 11:13am on 15/02/2010
Not being a Windows person myself I didn't think of Picassa - but it might work well as the previous commenter said.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 11:24am on 15/02/2010
I'll be scanning the photos and putting them on a memory stick for her, so no need for internet transmission :-) She can then move them onto her laptop if she wants. What I'm after here is possible ways to arrange/view them than just as folders.
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posted by [identity profile] alexmc.livejournal.com at 11:54am on 15/02/2010
Ah, then the first suggestion you received is probably best. Picassa I think does what you need.
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