I am about 20 days into a 60 day trial of some new software. I am usually watching for software that will meet my needs and make things easier. The need: I have many photographs (or more properly, images) saved in many files and folders all over my hard drive. These are usually saved as TIFF files and some are saved at a higher resolution so that I can manipulate copies when I need to do so. But, it is difficult for my aged brain to remember what I have and where it is located. As Elizabeth has pointed out so well, my genealogy software will take care of this problem for my family tree related photographs. But, I have been trying to find something that would handle the rest. I have checked out several "photo album" type programs, but the ones I looked at required me to JPEG all the photographs or do other things that didn't really meet my need. The software I am trying out is called BR's PhotoArchiver, version 3.5.2. The URL is http://www.br-software.com/photoarchiver.html and belongs to Baard Riiber. I think it is out of Denmark. You can check out the web site for yourself, but I'll try to give a little idea of what it does. I can Import any image (not gif or Tiff with LZW compression). Nothing really imports, however. What happens is a photo index is created which has a thumbnail of the image and links to the image wherever it is (even on a CD). You have the ability to add all sorts of descriptive information to the index. There is a bulk system to allow you to add the same information to many images at one time, such as 100 photographs that were all taken on the same vacation. The images can be identified by file name, a numbering system provided, or your own custom system. The photo index will be sorted accordingly. So, now you have these hundreds (or thousands) of thumbnails linked to all of the images on your computer and identified with all of the what, where, how, etc. information. This is where the software really shines. It has a very quick search feature that will search for almost anything you included in the identifying text. For example, I have photographs that were taken on Easter, or Christmas. I can simply search for one or the other, or both and immediately get them all. I can do the same with any surname, date, etc. A search for Eiffel gets me pictures of the Eiffel Tower I took in Paris, and also those I took in Las Vegas at the Paris Casino (that one surprised me) because I had included the word in the description. You may, of course, create as many photo indexes as you wish, but to me that defeats the value of the search feature. Or, I can quickly look over the thumbnails and be able to immediately find where an image is located in my files and folders. The program also claims to make CD,s and slide shows. I haven't gotten that far in my trial yet, but based on what I've seen so far I have no reason to doubt. On closing, support seems to be excellent. A couple of questions I had were answered promptly, by e-mail, by Baard. I hope this information helps someone on the list who has a similar need. Ron