Database With Tags for Images

[bslarch]

Hi All,



I produce visualisations for architecture companies and use a lot of 2d images of people, cars, trees, skies, etc. As it stands now, I have a folder that contains a huge amount of images that I flip through when I create a new image. I have seen that some websites, such as http://www.gobotree.com/ allow you to filter through an image database based on different tags. I would like to create a similar database, but stored locally on my computer. I have actually never used Microsoft Access before, but I'm thinking that this might be the best program for me to use. Is this true? Any other recommendations to search through a personal database based on specific requirements?
My second question, if Microsoft Access is the best software to use, is how would I actually go about doing this? Are there any specific tutorials that would help me with this? Essentially I would like to organize my library of images of 2D people based on things like: 'staring', 'bicycle', 'looking up', 'back view', 'crowds', 'pointing', 'sitting' etc.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[June7]

Access should be able to do what you want. It has an Image control that is very versatile for dynamically displaying various image file types (not PDF).

[rpeare]

in terms of table structure you could have something like

tblImages
ImageID  ImagePath  ImageName
1        c:\test\xx\ Image1.jpg
2        c:\test\yy\ Image2.jpg

tblTags
TagID  TagName
1      Bicycle
2      Staring
3      Looking Up
4      Back View
5      Crowds
6      Pointing

tblImageTags
IT_ID  ImageID  TagID
1      1        1
2      1        5
3      1        6
4      2        2
5      2        3 
6      2        5

the table tblImageTags would be a junction table linking your image to your descriptors. Then searching for images with a particular tag becomes simple.

[orange]

Further to comments so far, you could have some categories of Tags to make searching more levels of detail for precision. Perhaps not in your specific case, but from a concepts point of view.

Season
TimeOfDay
CityScape
SeaScape
Rural
Geography
People
Animals
...etc
Just looking to expand Tag concept.

Good luck.