CDFinder
The Search Is Over
- CDFinder Sample Use:
Advertising Agency
Software Developer
Photographer
Musician or Music Lover
Joe Average User
Switcher
CDFinder also supports GPS geotagging!
Macwelt Review:
CDFinder is Very Good!
CDFinder Praise:
More praise...
"First off, I want to say that I love CDFinder. It's a great way to quickly search through my catalog of 300,000+ images. No other program I've tried can search through that many images so quickly or easily." Cliff D. Seattle
"I had been using the PC version for many years so when I changed to Mac this year I was nervous about losing all those catalogues & having to start again. No fear, it was completely seamless to move to CDFinder which read & saved everything perfectly! It works like a dream & I am able to instantly bring up thumbnails of former clients when they phone me. This is very valuable to help provide that personal service in portrait photography! This an essential software tool for a pro-photographer. By the way, CDFinder's customer service is personal & fast. I remain impressed & delighted!" Simon Hoyle, Days Bay, New Zealand www.southlight.co.nz
" We're delighted in your level of service & expertise. I found the software yesterday and only expected to be up in running in a few weeks time, but thanks to your brilliant systems, we're operational and just loving your user-friendly system." René, South Africa
"An amazing piece of software.....as a photographer I have tons of files to track..." Jim L., USA
"I am blown away that you were able to add the support for my RAW files and their sidecar files so quickly. This is such a huge plus for someone in my situation where I have a large percentage of files in RAW format only, but still tagged with keywords as a tool for reference. I love this!
I was able to run your new development app through its paces and couldn't be happier. This will make my life so much easier moving forward with my large library of images, and growing.
I was also able to import my existing database of catalogs from DiskTracker which carried in excess of 400 catalogs in it. This was a feature that sealed the deal for me when I was looking at your application. I had so many volumes cataloged in that application that if I would have had to leave that behind I just could not have made the switch. It would have taken too many hours to recreate that database in any new application.
Also, the thumbnails are a fabulous feature and make your application one that is light years beyond what I was using. It is going to be a pleasure from this point forward to search for files with all of these benefits built into the application. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Thank you for the fabulous application and the equally fabulous support! A thrilled customer," Gary S, New York
CDFinder Sample Use - Photographer
As a Photographer, you usually have to deal with a really large amount of precious digital photos in your portfolio, either taken with your digital camera, or maybe even scanned with foto scanners.
You can of course keep all your photos online on an array of very large disks, but even in that case you want to backup your data to prevent losing important photos.
Most applications such as iPhoto for the amateur use, or Aperture and Photoshop for the professional use, only deal with photos available locally. So these will fall short when it comes to dealing with your archive on DVD-ROMs or backup disks. This is where CDFinder comes in!
Add or edit the IPTC tags of your photos, because any additional textual data will improve the chances of quickly finding the right photo. For that you can either use Aperture, Photoshop, or even Graphic Converter.
Then burn you photos on DVD-ROMs (better twice, to make sure that you don't lose one of them, or that one media will become faulty). Then catalog the DVD with CDFinder, and from that moment you can have CDFinder search your photos for you!
These photo and image types are currently recognized by CDFinder (with Mac OS X 10.4.5 and above):
JPEG
RAW (.nef, .raf, .orf, .dng, .mrw, .crw, .cr2, .kdc, .dcr, .ptx, .pef, .arw, .srf, and even the .fff files of the Hasselblad family of cameras)
TIFF
Adobe Photoshop PSD
Adobe PDF
EPS
Adobe Illustrator (.ai, both "PDF compatible" and XMP thumbnails)
Maya IFF ("form4" only)
PNG
BMP
GIF
Targa (.tga).
With the unique FileCheck feature, you can even make sure that your photo files are still fully readable and unchanged on your backup or archive disks.
And since CDFinder of course creates thumbnails of lots and lots of photos files, you are even able to see a preview of all results, allowing you to quickly see which are the right files.
CDFinder will read the entire set of EXIF and IPTC data of every photo for you along with the thumbnail, and display it all in the Inspector window. Of course, you can search for any of these fields in a very unique and detailed way that no other cataloger tool offers.
