I am looking for a desktop photo organizer that provides the following two funct

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I am looking for a desktop photo organizer that provides the following two functions:

Create "Albums" (collection of images) without moving or copying the files. The general idea is that one image may appear in multiple "Albums" without being copied into an Album folder. (e.g. something integrated in a photo organizer that works like GNU/Linux symbolic links.)

Batch upload of an entire "Album" to a social website (e.g. Flickr, Facebook).

Google's Picasa has both features, but is awkward to use outside of the G+ ecosystem. I am looking for an alternative that works equally well with most social and photo sharing websites.

Explanation / Answer

I would recommend Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

It is an excellent piece of software for managing photos. It's not free like Picasa but it's certainly not expensive for what you get. I've been using it since version 1 and just love how easy it is to manage your albums/collections, batch editing, printing and sharing to social media.

With the publishing tools, Facebook for example, it will keep track of which photos you have published. So if you edit a photo after publishing it you can easily re-publish it.

You can see an overview of publishing to Facebook here at about the 10 minute mark

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