Major Update to Genealogy Pages :-)

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Jan 202020
 
Sadly, the genealogy pages on davoweb.net have been languishing without updates for several years, not least because the media links were in a mess and some add-ons I was using were broken after updates to WordPress or PHP, the computer language that drives this (and many other) websites. Over the last couple of months I bit the bullet and updated TNG, the excellent software package that davoweb.net…

Face Tagging and Lightroom

 Photography  26 Responses »
Jan 082014
 
Face Tagging and LightroomAdobe Lightroom is my image processing and asset management application of choice. As at version 5 however, it doesn’t provide face recognition, which I want. Picasa does a very good job of that, but by default doesn’t save the face rectangles or names to the image file itself, rather it uses a proprietary database and folder-based text files (picasa.ini)…

Managing Your Photo Collection II

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Jul 122013
 
OK, so I had recognised the need to properly manage my growing collection of images. If you’re paying attention you would have noted that I said “images”, not “photos” (despite the title of this article!). Hmm. Remember, that includes a number, soon to be in the hundreds and eventually in the thousands, of scanned photos up to maybe 100 years old, as well as my own scanned slides and prints from the last 50 years, not just photos taken since my conversion to digital cameras about 10 or so years ago.…