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PhotoDirector
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`CyberLink PhotoDirector <https://www.cyberlink.com/products/photodirector-ultra/features_en_US.html>`_ is the program I use to manage my photo collection.

I do have my photos indexed in :doc:`Plex <../serve/plex>` for easy viewing, but for general management, tagging, etc., I'm using PhotoDirector. I picked this up after Google dropped support for :doc:`Picasa <../deprecated/picasa>`.

From a general photo management standpoint the software works really well, however, I have found no end of trouble with the face tagging feature. The more face tags you have, the slower the tagging feature works to detect new faces. Also I have lost my face tag data twice now over software upgrades. As such, I've stopped doing face tagging.

In the future I'm considering looking at one of these server-based self-hosted packages:

* `PhotoStructure <https://photostructure.com/>`_
* `Piwigo <https://piwigo.org/>`_
* `Lychee <https://lychee.electerious.com/>`_