Comments on: Organise Your Images

By: Dianne

Dianne — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:39:47 +0000

HI! LOve your site. I have got windows xp and am trying to orgainse my photos in my pictures. I need to ask how do I open a subfolder? I want to open folders for the different years and then move my file/folders there. can I do this now?
Thanks
Di

By: John Davidson

John Davidson — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:45:13 +0000

About your site in general.
I like your course and help. It’s like having a knowledgable friend and a club at hand. Jolly well done!

By: Travis

Travis — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:17:54 +0000

Picasa works great with the latest update of folder tree viewing.

http://www.picasa.com

Another great feature is the uploading/sharing part of picasa. Check mine out and see for yourself.

http://www.picasaweb.google.com/tjsphotography

and the best part is it is all free.

FOR SEMI-PRO / PROSUMERS, if you want to shoot and edit RAW images, this program is amazing and free. And has a great work flow design. Adobe however just bought the program and will soon be ending the link. So check it out and download now if you have a DIGITAL SLR (I shoot a Nikon D70 w/ 18-70mm nikkor)

http://www.pixmantec.com/products/rawshooter_essentials.asp

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:36:42 +0000

I use the folder method of organizing, as you show, but I put the date to the event in each month. eg. 01-14-Uncle Ted’s bday, 01-26-Trip to Bahamas. All would be in 2007, 01JAN. I keep a paper book journal so I can find what I’m looking for by date or event.

I,also, copy all the original pics and put them on a CD so that I am working with the copies only.

By: Tormod Malmgren

Tormod Malmgren — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:51:15 +0000

I have also convert to mac and I have tried many of the programs and found that iphoto 6.0 is great for most of the job and you can combine it with photoshop. I also tried Adobe lightroom which is in public beta and is really the best I tried up til now

By: Bruno

Bruno — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:07:51 +0000

I agree with Trish, Picasa might make your Photo Collection look organised within the program but the file structure is a big mess… so not a good idea if you ever intend to change programs /systems (even if you can import the picasa library files) or want to make CD / DVD backups.

I sort my photos as described above in folders according to date and place/event, additionally I sometimes add keywords/tags into the exif/meta data of photos so I can find them without a date in mind, which makes it platform & program independent.
So no matter what computer system or online gallery I transfer my collection to, I preserve the same strategy. Using the exif/meta keywords you can sort your photos easily into date independent categories (i.e. the (picture) search for “beach” will bring up every photo you tagged with beach), works also for online galleries that understand exif (like the well known gallery script).

For viewing, searching, tagging, and further categorizing and even small editting tasks I use ACDSee (Pro), which also understands image audio, movie clips, and basically every picture format I ever heard of (plugins extensible).

By: Trish

Trish — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:06:27 +0000

This was a great topic, however I have to disagree about Picasa. I have thousands of photos and this program didn’t even provide the option of making subfolders for organization; it just made folders and that’s it. I have gmail - which is great for organization of email messages; with that in mind, I thought a program by Google would be better than what I experienced.

I have found that organizing files on the hard drive is much easier.

By: Stanley

Stanley — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:04:52 +0000

IPhoto on the Mac is a good application. It also stores by date and its Preferences allow for quite a range of automatically generated chronological folders. I’ve recently started using v.6 which is worth looking at. Better editing tools.

The way around the bulky library is to create more specific libraries. Hold the Option key down while booting up IPhoto and it will ask you whether you want to create a new library. To revert to a previous library, do the booting up thing again and you can choose which library to work in. It will otherwise simply open up in the last used library.

By: Venki

Venki — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:21:40 +0000

What a simple yet brilliant idea !!

By: Henning

Henning — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:55:51 +0000

I dont think sorting by date is such a hot idea. Often I dont really remember when a particular photo was shot, so I have nothing to search for. I use a program called cumulus, (came free with a magazine. That keeps a record of the pictures using categories of my choise, so I have portraits, family, cars and so on. Each picture can have several such tags.

But the most important thing to do is to file the images in some sort of structure, to just download from the camera and think: I´ll sort it later, is the start of chaos.
Henning