Hi,

What I would like is a single piece of software (or a smart combination of tools) that allow me to manage my photos in a better way than what I've found so far.

1. Tags Primarily I need a way of tagging the images. So I can manually tag photos the same way we tag questions here at SO/SF/SU. I want this software to place a lot of the tags automagically (obvious things like date and resolution).

2. Face recognition What I would really like is that this software has a feature that it can recognize faces in images and places tags with the name of the person. So far I've only heard of one online photo system that can do that (Picasa) and not yet of any offline tool.

3. Version database I must have some way of having a central GIT/SVN/... that contains all images. I have had a harddrive corruption a few years ago and it took me a long time to figure out which images had been damaged. I always want to be able to go back to what the camera produced.

4. Website I want to be able to generate a website (few 'tag' specific websites) based on the actual content.

5. Easy bulk uploading Many photo tools have a one on one uploading option. I prefer simply 'throwing' my images on a file server under Linux (Samba) and let the system automagically integrate, tag, recognize, etc. all images.

Ok, I know these are a bit much. Perhaps you guy's have some suggestions about existing tools that can make this possible. Or even a complete system that does this.

EDIT: To clarify on the OS. I prefer Linux for any 'server' task and Windows XP for any 'desktop' task.

Thanks for all your input.

Niels Basjes