5 Tips to Organise your Digital Photos
How do you organise digital photos on your computer? Read on to fine out.
Images can take up a lot of space and can easily become a mess that you spend hours trying to sort through. From the images you take personally, to the ones you have done professionally, keeping your digital photos organised may seem like a daunting task. Fortunately, there are some quick and easy ways you can keep your images organised and make finding the ones you want quick and easy.
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Date and Time
Most often you can set the date and time on your camera and this information will automatically show when you upload new images onto your computer. But, if you are uploading digital files from your professional shoot then you may need to add the date to the files before you begin the upload.
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File Names
Create folders for your images with the name, date or occasion you had them taken. It is always a good idea to add in the year that they were taken as well. You can create sub-folders within the 'pictures folder' on your computer, for images you upload from your professional shoot.
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Face Recognition
Most photo software allows you to tag people in your images using facial recognition. This can be an easy way for you to find specific images of your children and significant other.
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Tags or Keywords
It can take a little extra time to tag your images with keywords but this can make finding the images you want significantly easier. Use keywords that you will be able to remember and be consistent with them. Keywords can be single words or phrases. Some ideas for tagginhg your images can include the event, date, location, season and people in the images.
Rate and Delete
You'd be surprised how many images are on your computer that you simply will never use or feel the need to look at again. Do you have images that are out of focus, have poor exposure, or random images of your hands, feet or the inside of your bag? Spend an afternoon going through and deleting the images that are pointless to keep. While you're at it, you can go through and rate the images as well. This will allow you to easily find the images you like the most.