Comments on: How to Organize Digital Photos (the easy way)

By: Kyle Webs

Kyle Webs — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:31:43 +0000

I’ve always made a seperate folder for each year and then inside of that, made another folder using the name of the set or event.

I’ve recently had trouble with that, because it makes searching for photos of an individual person more work.

I’m not sure what I’ll be doing from now on.

By: Asterid

Asterid — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:28:23 +0000

You inspired me, just now, to go sort out my pictures. It’s amazing! I got all my pictures down to roughly 15 different categories and then stuck them into folders named for each category.

Thank you!
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By: Billie Jean

Billie Jean — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:04:37 +0000

Great ideas everyone!

About a year ago, I took my old photos from all of the albums I had collected throughout the years and had them scanned through http://www.scanmyphotos.com. I now have them organized by subject. I can easily find old pictures and share them electronically with friends and family. I keep two back-up copies.

For those extra special events and vacations, I have made bound photo books through http://www.yorkphoto.com. This has saved so much space & I feel like my pictures are better organized & preserved.

By: richard

richard — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:41:19 +0000

i have used Picasso for 4 years and now have over 9000 photos. Many are on picassa free WEB service for friends viewing. After a day shooting I load them in and delete and edit. I organize into folders, yyyy mmdd description name. ie. 2009 0704 Fireworks SV park. I work at renaming all photos in folder with folder name+ pic number. First pic = 0, second pic=1,… Reason is because Picassa or any program can get a corrupt inxex and the pictures lose their order, home. solution is to delete program, restart, install program and it will find all your photos and build new index. Having your photo named into events, etc. insures that you can get them reorganized.

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By: Midwest Mainer

Midwest Mainer — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:26:43 +0000

I’ve never deleted a photo.

Duplicates, yes. But anything other than a copy, no. I save blurry, sideways, backwards, everything.

I can appreciate what you are saying; and I know this works for many people. I suppose if I did delete photos I’d only lose a small percentage but I choose to save them all.

I have used Picasa since it was $24.95! Then Google bought it and it became free. When I got a Mac this year it was the main PCish thing I missed. Luckily, Picasa for Mac was just released (beta). I’ve already been working on it.

I, too, use the date system to organize and was awestruck when I realized it was so effective. Duh. Why didn’t I do this earlier?

As far as back up, I have two additional hard drives and gold 300 yr. discs. One hard drive is for photos and movies, the other for everything else. I back up automatically.

Due to hard drive crash and/or virus- I’ve lost hundreds, thousands of photos, documents, scans (that’s the real work!), and songs. It’s miserable to come back from that- and that’s if you backed up.

Thanks again for helpful info.

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:31:19 +0000

These are great tips. I’m also a big fan of Picassa.

I’m in the process of working my way through our old printed photos. I had them scanned by sending them to scan my photos.com. The send them back on a disk which is easy to upload into Picassa. I deleted the duplicates and the ones that weren’t good. I’m really happy with the results.

By: Claire

Claire — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:17:00 +0000

Big gulps!! I am so not good at deleting but after reading your and Simplemom’s photo storing tips, I know it has to be done. Now I just have to do it. That’s definitely the hard part for me.

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Simple Ways to Store Photos | simple mom — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:02:07 +0000

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By: Eden

Eden — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:25:59 +0000

Backing up to an external drive is good, but you really need online storage too. I use JungleDisk. It’s fairly easy to set up and I have it scheduled to automatically back up every night (you can specify precisely what to back up).

It’s no fun to think about, but something like a fire or theft at home would destroy all the hard drives you have which is why the online backup is so important.