Kia Ora from New Zealand.

First of all I want to thank the developers for producing such a wonderful program, all for the cost of a donation. I would like to know if gimp v2.8 can be used for photo-indexing (DAM)?

Regards to all,
Jim zl2bmh

Welcome to Gimp Chat.

For digital asset management you are better off using XnView.
http://www.xnview.com/en/index.html
Which is also available as freeware.

Hi. Welcome to GC.

If you are a Linux user, you can also try digiKam, which is OpenSource as GIMP.
http://www.digikam.org

Although they mention that can be installed on Windows and MacOSX, but I do not know about it.

Windows packages -
http://sourceforge.net/projects/digikam/files/digikam/

200 MB download though! And it needs 1 gig of space. (996 MB)


Doc manual can be found here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/3379254648/

Because you have to import half of KDE with it as well as most of Qt if you aren't already using them...

This said it's a a very good general purpose program to manage and edit photos. And it can process images in 16-bit mode so ATM that makes it a lot more suited for photo editing than Gimp.

Ohh!
That size must be because in Windows may need to install all of KDE components.
From what I read install KDE on Windows is not very stable.
Anyway usually this is not that way. There are millions of Windows software that GNU/Linux users can not enjoy. The rule is usually OpenSoure can run on any system. Software for Windows, Windows only (and rarely for Mac)
That's why I love the OpenSource

Edit: I had not read the ofnuts post when I posted my message. I was still translating my message