I am looking for help in organizing my out-of-control set of pictures and photos.

When I Search for pictures and photos on my Dell 3000 pc (with XP) I see that I have some 1506 of them ... some photos I have taken or received by email, some screen shots I have made, and some cartoon-like icons that appear to be associated with some of my applications. I am trying, finally, to “catalog” them in a reasonable way.

I would like to organize them in such a way that I can select them using from a table-like index like this:

Photo # Date Taken Location Subject Title

1 1/2/2009 NY Battery Park apartment
2 2/3/2008 PV Pool
3 3/5/2007 CC, MD Garden …….
....…
1506 1/18/1999 Miami Joan

where the table is searchable for, say, “PdL”.

If I look through the photo-related software on my system I see that I have these packages:

• Jasc Paint Shop Photo Album 5’
• Jasc Paint Shop Pro Studio Dell Edition
• Kodak EasyShare Software
• Logitech QuickCam Software
• Logitech Camera Driver
• InfranView

but I have never really learned how to use any of them.


QUESTIONS:

Will any of my current software packages allow me to build an index like the kind I want?
Which one is recommended?
Is there <another> software package I should get instead of the ones I now have?

I would appreciate your suggestions.