Should I organize each photo based on when photo was taken, or who is in the photo, or why the photo was taken (example: Kevin’s wedding) My photos are in such disarray and I have no idea how to organize them effectively. I have about 2,000 and it seems totally out of hand now. How do you do it?
Like you, I don’t have a good system yet. I keep them in order that I shot them because that’s the order I back the up to DVD. Like you, I sometimes have trouble finding certain old pictures. Someone really asked for one of my pictures that’s a few years old and I had to tell them they’re out of luck. What would really be nice if the pictures were actually in a huge database so you could just do searches and filters based on metadata. I don’t know how easy or affordable that would be in practice.
January 1st, 2010 at 2:50 am
Like you, I don’t have a good system yet. I keep them in order that I shot them because that’s the order I back the up to DVD. Like you, I sometimes have trouble finding certain old pictures. Someone really asked for one of my pictures that’s a few years old and I had to tell them they’re out of luck. What would really be nice if the pictures were actually in a huge database so you could just do searches and filters based on metadata. I don’t know how easy or affordable that would be in practice.
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