So what did you end up moving to? I'm still looking for an alternative.
Aashoo

Built-in geocoding is important to me so I might hold off trying PhotoSupreme unless it gets that added on.

What are people's thoughts on Zoner Free or Pro, or Lightroom? I think having basic image editing built in would be nice as I will likely lose my ability to use Photoshop CS3 once I migrate to Win8.
I think both LR4 and Zoner do geocoding, hierarchical keywords, export to Flickr. Anyone have experience with those?

Thanks!

Aashoo

Hi everyone,

I was using IDImager but as you read now that's dead. Reading on the forums there it seems that people are none too pleased with Photo Supreme as a true DAM tool.

So, I wanted some insights from people. I'm willing to pay money for a tool that is useful, but I imagine it would need to have:

1. Hierarchical keywords

2. Automatic compatibility with XML (and IPTC I guess; which of those do Facebook and Flickr use?) for the keywords and such (and to treat the City, State, Country, Location fields as keywords too)
3. Ability to export to Facebook and Flickr
4. Ability to run searches (5 star pictures of me without person X, etc.)

I had recently been using Picasa for face recognition and then importing that data into IDI; if there is some way to do that it would be great.

Also since my current DAM is IDI, if the new DAM software can import my images and recreate a hierarchical keyword structure that would be nice but I am willing to spend the time to recreate it if it will at least import all the keywords.

I saw some hints also that Media Pro 1 fails, that Lightroom 4 fails, that digiKam fails in Windows... I don't even know if ACDSee still exists, etc. Has anyone tried Daminion? I also can't tell exactly what DAM tools Lightroom offers given that the dpreview of it does not mention it at all.

I'd really appreciate some advice on the topic.

Thanks!
Aashoo