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ARRGHHH!  I have 300+ pictures from our vacation and I am going crazy trying to organize them.  I blame Adobe Elements. 

Here is what I want.  I want to be able to add captions, tags, and possibly rename my pictures quickly.  I want to be able to find and add tags from the collection of tags I already have created, and I want to be able to add tags on the fly.  Auto complete when I type tags would be very cool.  I want the tag and caption information to be written to the files themselves.  I want to upload the pictures to Flickr easily and have the tags and captions read.  What would be very cools is if the caption could be used as the title in Flickr automatically, instead of the filename.

I think that Adobe Elements 4.0 does a pretty good job with everything EXCEPT tag management.  The inability to type tags, add tags on the fly, and generally find tags quickly is making the program difficult to deal with.  I look at some pictures now and think, “I bet I could assign 20 good tags to this picture, but I won’t because it would be too hard.”  The picture to the right is just a sample of the mess my tags are in. 

I have tried Picasa, and I think the organization method that they use is simply beyond comprehension, plus they don’t allow multi word tags, and the Flickr integration is just not great.  So are there any good photo organizers out there that allow tagging by typing?  Any that have auto complete?  Guess it is time to start investigating.