# Recommend a good Photo Album software

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-photo-album-software/244848>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 12, 2004, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-photo-album-software/244848 "2004-05-12T20:27:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-photo-album-software/244848/1 "2004-05-12T20:27:14Z")

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My mother has given me several albums containing 40 years of family photos with the request that I scan them, digitally repair the damaged ones if I can, and burn CDs for everybody in the family. I know that all I need is my scanner and CD burner to do this, but what I’d really like to do is make a master photo album on which I can organize and accession the photos and pull them up by typing in keywords (e.g. _Papa, Christmas, 1970s_, or preferably all of the preceding at once).

Does anybody know of a program that will do this? Has anybody had a really good or bad experience with a photo album software?

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**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-photo-album-software/244848/2 "2004-05-12T21:09:40Z")

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We’ve been using [FlipAlbum](http://www.flipalbum.com/) (the standard edition) in the office for a while now, and have found it to be a really useful tool. You can annotate your photos and do searches accordingly; you can also get fancy and add music, borders to the pages, etc.