I don't believe you Mr. Fishman

I needed to finally buy an app to catalog my stock photos, clip art, and job graphics. I had the free iView Media 1.0 that came with my Mac, but because I didn't want to upgrade it (due to cost and the fact it is now MS) I demoed all the contenders listed on MacUpdate. I narrowed it down to QPict and Mediaboard One, which I then put head to head. I started with QPict which had various crashes. I did like a couple things about it so I attempted again. I soon realized it really didn't have the flow and organization that I wanted. As it imported, it automatically interpreted the categories, and folders, which at first I thought was a good thing. But then when I looked at all of that stuff listed in the organizer window, there were all these listings that were indecipherable from my real organized folders. It also had warning triangles for most of the images. It also skipped over one particular group of nested folders and only listed one random item from it all. Also, if I clicked on a folder from its finder pane, it started indexing it (and you can't cancel the importing) and created a new database. But I gave QPict one last shot and imported my entire library into it, which took an extremely long time (from morning to night). At the very end, when it was doing its final indexing, it crashed, and I lost the whole day's worth of effort. Also, I had the program make references to the real file, not store the actual file, but regardless, the QPict size was huge compared to the database created by Mediaboard One, and even though I have a big hard drive, I don't need the database to be so enormous when Mediaboard One was so much more efficient.

Now Mediaboard One. It organized my files the way I wanted them to be, has lightning fast searches, flexible and time-saving keywording, flexible structure, provisions for bought/sold image info, and very very stable. No crashes at all, and I imported my entire library in half the time as QPict. So I bought Mediaboard One without hesitation. My advice is to take a look at it before committing to QPict.

QPict is without doubt the beat pict program yet.I use it daily on my Power Mac G4 with a 19" Formac.
Perfect.

unable to determine if qpict can import existing data files (tab delimited) containing useful keywords, image title,..

very fast for image browsing, but without the ability to import those existing details, i can't use it. especially at that price point.

looks sweet though. keep up the good work! :)

I've tried most of the "thumbnail browser" programs, including iView MediaPro and the browse features of Graphic Converter and Photoshop Elements, and I still keep using QPict.

The batch processing is excellent for adding metadata to scanned photos, and it's robust enough to deal with tens of thousands of images. Best of all, it's drag-drop simple to use, and doesn't demand the right to rearrange my folders of photos the way iPhoto does.

The newer versions add the "dynamic zoom" of iPhoto, too. You'll need something else for cropping and adjusting your photos, but QPict is a great way to organize and browse them.