Software for getting a visual inventory, so to speak

[Recty]

My boss wants a program that will show a picture of all employees. Maybe 10 or so on the screen at a time, so not real small thumbnails but not full size pictures either.

He then wants to be able to click on the picture and see their date of hire and their birth date. Obviously that data will have to be filled in by someone in order for that to work.

Any ideas on software that would do this? Just a real simple image viewer but one that will display properties on the images when it is single clicked?

The other option is to watermark each image, basically put the employees date of hire and birth date on them, but that's the less desired option.

 

[BlueCorn]

Put their information into the image metadata and just use lightroom to build pages. When you click on an image it could give you a larger version and show their details.

Easy peasy. Lemon squeezy.

 

[Recty]

I was wondering about Lightroom. I'm not sure my boss wants to spend $300 on this, because it's just for one person to view.

So can Lightroom edit the metadata? And can I go into there and change the category? Like for instance I want to enter birthdate and start date, can I add that as a metadata category or do I have to just stick it somewhere like "Created Date" and tell him that's really the hire date?

 

[Reef Bass]

Being a web developer, I'd crank out some simple html to do it if it were to live on say your corporate intranet. One page with all the pics with each pic linking to the full size or linking to a page which displays the full size pic and some specific text.

There'd be basically two page formats, the "master" and the "detail". There'd be one detail for each employee pic but they'd be extremely similar, with just the filename and descriptive text varying between them.