An odd question and search for something that may not exist.

[Behind the Aegis]

I currently have hundreds of photos, on my computer, various drives, and, of course, "hardcopies". I have been wanting to organize my photos, but every time I start, I get frustrated because one picture can go in multiple places or categories. After seeing various media platforms from Instagram (which I don't have) to twitter to Tumblr, one thing I noticed is how people "hashtag" photos, thereby allowing a form of multiple categories. Is there a photo storage program or device that allows saved photos to be "hashtagged" on your computer?

Just in case that was as clear as mud, let me give an example. Take this picture:



I took that picture when I was in Iceland. Is there a way to save it on my computer, without having an insanely long name, that I can search by various tags, such as "Iceland", "landscape", "vacation 2017"?

or



Hashtags: Voodoo, pets, 2019, headshot, closeup

Did I make any sense? Does such a program exist that doesn't require me uploading pics to a media platform?

Thanks!

[flamin lib]

1. Looking forward to suggestions. nt

[soothsayer]

2. There IS a storage thing like that cuz our video team at work used one

I watched them entering keywords and descriptions.

Ah— “keyword “” is probably a key word (ha) you should be searching for.

[soothsayer]

3. I think that's going to be your answer-- just search "organizing photos with keywords"

Or “storing photos with keywords.”

I think you’ll find a lot of options.

[billh58]

4. Just did a search for

"categorize photos" and this is one of the first sites to pop up, and sounds kind of like what you're looking for:

https://cloudinary.com/blog/how_to_automatically_tag_and_categorize_photos_according_to_their_content

[cayugafalls]

5. A review of 25 apps for photo organizing.

https://www.pixpa.com/blog/photo-organiser

[unc70]

6. Standard Apple photo apps do this

The app will allow automatic searching by location, time, people, context and much more. Often it will figure things out for you by scanning your images and meta data. Will even create video slide shows, etc. automatically.

[Major Nikon]

7. Adobe Lightroom has quite an extensive organizational toolkit

Personally I have not used many of the organizational features as I have been organizing my photos by directories on my NAS. In addition they have search features similar to web search engines. For example you could search for dog or mountain or whatever and it would return a list of those things.

Unfortunately stand alone copies of Lightroom 6 have been discontinued and are no longer available on places like Adorama and B&H. If you can find a new copy which you can register with Adobe on eBay or wherever, I suggest you grab it. Otherwise the only way to get it is through Adobe’s subscription service. The down side to the standalone version is no more updates to Camera Raw, so newer cameras issued after about a year ago may no longer be supported for Raw image processing. The next time I upgrade my Nikon body I’ll be forced to go with Adobes subscription service.

Naturally with Lightroom you also get a pretty impressive suite of image editing tools. It’s not as extensive as photoshop, but it does allow most of the editing tools you’re going to want for day to day processing.

[alfredo]

8. I Categorize general date, location, events, lenses used.

Doing the lens category helps me decide what lens can stay and what can go.

[drray23]

9. Many programs allow for that.

Adobe Lightroom for example is one of them. It also is s very good post-processing software.

[ManiacJoe]

10. You are looking for a Digital Asset Manager (DAM).

The images get "imported" into a database, usually referenced by their full path and filename.
Keywords can be assigned, becoming hashtags on export.
Collections or groups can be created.
Most DAM programs these days also have image editors built in.

Lightroom Classic by Adobe is very popular as both a manager and editor. It is available only by yearly subscription now.
ACDSee and Corel have DAM products similar to Lightroom, both available as a straight purchase.