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We’ve had a digital camera around our house for probably the last 10 years. The way I used to copy our photos off of the camera was to simply make a folder called ‘Family Photos’ and copy the photos into it. As time passed, the folder would simply act as a timeline of oldest to newest, which turns out not to work well at all.
Previously if you wanted to find a picture of a certain holiday, you would just scroll down using the thumbnails view in Windows until you found the pictures that were taken around that time. I know for certain that my dad has spent long periods of time before looking for certain pictures. It’s just a messy way of storing them in hindsight; especially when the numbers get into the thousands.
I’ve had reorganization on my mind for quite some time and happened to stumble across a site a few days ago, OrganizingYourPhotos.com, that lays out an example of a tree structure using levels and other tips for organization. This gave me the motivation to work on it today. The idea is to start out broad and narrow down the event or place until you get down as specific as you want.
A few examples of the new setup:
Simple change, yet this is going to be so much better.
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I find Picasa 3 to work very well to manage my digital photos. Not only to manage them, but to do minor changes / edits to them.
Mark
Hey,
I’m the creator of Organizing Your Photos. I’m glad you like it! Let me know how it works for you.
- Daniel
Thanks for stopping by! I really appreciate the method you share and your entire site! It’s worked great for me and now my photo collection is nice and organized. It’s so much easier to find things and is going to save lots of time in the future anytime anyone would like to find a specific photo!
Glad you like it!