Photography Tip: Organizing photos
Wow, it’s the middle of July, and we are half way to Christmas!
We are taking a lot of photos at our home this summer. It seems we want to capture every moment of our children’s lives.
Today’s tip is about how we organize our photos.
When I load my digital images into my computer, I do two things. First, I backup everything to a large hard drive that I take off site. This insures I have a copy of my images backed up safely.
When I send the images from my camera to my computer, I create a folder with today’s date in a directory called “My Pictures”. I copy all the images from my camera to that directory. In essence that is my archive of photos.
Then I look at all the photos I loaded, and grab JUST MY FAVORITES, and COPY them to another folder that I call “favorites”. This is the folder I use to play slideshows, print photo books, and share with friends. It doesn’t have all my photos, just all my favorite photos. Whenever I want to share an image with someone, I just go to my favorites folder—I don’t have to sort through hundreds of “ok” photos to find what I am looking for.
I also make sure that when I first use my camera, I have set it to the correct date and time. This insures the camera embeds the correct date in the photo file. I can later sort the images in the order they were taken.
The key is to do this quick step the moment you upload your images as it is difficult for us to find the time later to go back and pick out the favorites. This is a simple tip that works for our family, and makes sharing memories easier and less time consuming.
We are taking a lot of photos at our home this summer. It seems we want to capture every moment of our children’s lives.
Today’s tip is about how we organize our photos.
When I load my digital images into my computer, I do two things. First, I backup everything to a large hard drive that I take off site. This insures I have a copy of my images backed up safely.
When I send the images from my camera to my computer, I create a folder with today’s date in a directory called “My Pictures”. I copy all the images from my camera to that directory. In essence that is my archive of photos.
Then I look at all the photos I loaded, and grab JUST MY FAVORITES, and COPY them to another folder that I call “favorites”. This is the folder I use to play slideshows, print photo books, and share with friends. It doesn’t have all my photos, just all my favorite photos. Whenever I want to share an image with someone, I just go to my favorites folder—I don’t have to sort through hundreds of “ok” photos to find what I am looking for.
I also make sure that when I first use my camera, I have set it to the correct date and time. This insures the camera embeds the correct date in the photo file. I can later sort the images in the order they were taken.
The key is to do this quick step the moment you upload your images as it is difficult for us to find the time later to go back and pick out the favorites. This is a simple tip that works for our family, and makes sharing memories easier and less time consuming.
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