Not sure if this is the right place to put this, but im wondering what people generally use for photo management? At the moment, i have nothing more intuitive than a folder structure but am ideally looking for something that allows tags and catalogues of my images. I dont have the need for something as elaborate (or expensive) as Lightroom however.
I have nocied Corel Media One Starter and Plus on www.corel.com, so may download the trial of that.
Any other suggestions would be welcome :)
DXO for RAW images.The best or one of the best RAW image processors. I'd say the best but I've been using it for a long time and haven't bothered with a recent comparison.
https://www.dxo.com/
Sage for thumbnailing RAW and odd stuff.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sagethumbs/
Fast Picture Viewer, excellent for digging through 100s of images. Speed matters when you have a lot of images to process. That will also do thumbnails for RAW files.
https://www.fastpictureviewer.com/
For doing corrections that nothing else can manage in mere seconds, Luminar.
https://skylum.com/luminar/photo-enhancer
I'm using all of those but there might be some histrionics attached to Fast Picture Viewer as it was the only product that could render RAW files really fast on older hardware. Maybe that's not so important today on faster computers, depends on the number of RAW images you have to manage.
All have trials so you can give them a go. And none are disappointing.