Organising photos

[Warrior4Christ]

I've recently got a digital camera of my own, and thus will have a more steady supply of photos coming onto my computer (not that it wasn't substantial already). So I need to have a better system of photo organisation so that the photos aren't hidden away and useless. Does anyone have some photo organiser programs and online photo uploading sites they can recommend (and why you think it's the best)?
At the moment, I'm kind of leaning towards Google Picasa and Flickr. I did start to tag photos in Windows Photo Gallery which was kind of okay (it had hierarchical tagging, which was nice). I'd like to tag photos such that the tags are kept when opened in another program too. At this stage, it looks as though if I were to get a Flickr account, it would have to immediately be upgraded to a paid account...
One thing that's kind of annoying is that online photo sites like to be online-centric. I want to have a nice organised local set of photos, and I upload the subset of those I choose thankyouverymuch. Some organisational features are only on the Picasa Web Albums (not the program), which is kind of pointless for me.

[Roy Mustang]

I have flickr and I love it and I would go with that. If you want to see how Flickr is set up, you can go to this link that has my photostream page at Flickr

photostream page at Flickr


As for a organiser programs. I haven't tried it yet, but I have been reading and going to get Photoshop Lightroom.

It is Photoshop for photographers. It doesn't have all the stuff that you would get with the full version of Photoshop, but that's kind of the point of it.

Lightroom is part organiser and part editing tools for photos.

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