how do you organize your digital pictures?

[DJFuji]

I have hundreds of digital pictures in my "my pictures" folder and have been organizing them by sorting into folders based on date and the event or location i took the pictures. i.e. "20040104-Mike's Bday Party"

I have another folder that i use to store all of the pictures that didnt come out right but that i wanted to keep anyway because i'm a damned packrat with 400 gigs of HDD space...

The thing that made me think about it is google's free offer for image organization software. Does anyone use 3rd party software to organize their stuff?

 

[Anubis]

I use thumbs + to view them but i organize them in windows in folders, by year or event

My Pictures -> event or date folder -> picture

sometimes i rename teh photos sometimes i dont

 

[iamwiz82]

iPhotos

 

[DJFuji]

iphotos being 3rd party software?

 

[Chunkee]

the new free picasa from google

pretty slick

JC

 

[Eli]

I just download into a folder called "Canon A60". I have every picture that I have ever taken, good bad or downright unusable.

It's set to create a new folder with the date the picture was taken. So that's how all my pictures are organized, by date taken.

I then create a folder inside called "Modified", if I'm going to be resizing etc.

When I name, I just keep the original file number and add on the change(for example, 157_5751_800x600.jpg).

I've thought about naming the pics to have something to do with the content, and I guess it would be handy, but shrug... It looks unorganized to me, or something.

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: DJFuji
iphotos being 3rd party software?

A genius is you!

 

[Eli]

pic

 

[oniq]

I wonder if there are any decent programs for linux for photo management.

 

[clicknext]

Windows can be set to automatically download all pictures to a new folder that it automatically names the current day's date. I just let it do that, and then organize any special/event pictures into named folders.

 

[DJFuji]

Originally posted by: Eli
pic

somebody needs a bigger monitor and higher resolution....

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: Eli
I just download into a folder called "Canon A60". I have every picture that I have ever taken, good bad or downright unusable.

It's set to create a new folder with the date the picture was taken. So that's how all my pictures are organized, by date taken.

I then create a folder inside called "Modified", if I'm going to be resizing etc.

When I name, I just keep the original file number and add on the change(for example, 157_5751_800x600.jpg).

I've thought about naming the pics to have something to do with the content, and I guess it would be handy, but shrug... It looks unorganized to me, or something.

How do you set Windows to create a folder with the date the picture was taken? Can I do this for photos that are already on my harddrive?

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: DJFuji

Originally posted by: Eli
pic

somebody needs a bigger monitor and higher resolution....

you mean like this
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/TheEvil1/PICTURES.JPG

 

[episodic]

Picassa - it is on google's homepage - they are offering it for free. I really enjoy it

 

[DJFuji]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: DJFuji

Originally posted by: Eli
pic

somebody needs a bigger monitor and higher resolution....

you mean like this
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/TheEvil1/PICTURES.JPG

No, i mean like this

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: DJFuji

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: DJFuji

Originally posted by: Eli
pic

somebody needs a bigger monitor and higher resolution....

you mean like this
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/TheEvil1/PICTURES.JPG

No, i mean like this

me = win

i cropped that last one

 

[oniq]

Damn, DJFuji.. clean out Deleted Items already!

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: DJFuji

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: DJFuji

Originally posted by: Eli
pic

somebody needs a bigger monitor and higher resolution....

you mean like this
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/TheEvil1/PICTURES.JPG

No, i mean like this

me = win

i cropped that last one

I was using that mushroom wallpaper for a while. It rules.

And yes, yes I do...

I bought this 15" monitor new like 5 years ago.. lol

 

[DJFuji]

lol yeah i know...

 

[Bryophyte]

Different folders by Month and Year, with subfolders as necessary. IE Folder "2004 January" Subfolder might be "Yosemite trip"

 

[DJFuji]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: DJFuji

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: DJFuji

Originally posted by: Eli
pic

somebody needs a bigger monitor and higher resolution....

you mean like this
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/TheEvil1/PICTURES.JPG

No, i mean like this

me = win

i cropped that last one

Anubis,

I still contend that i have more overall pixels than you do:

me: 4423680
you: 3840000

HA!

Seriously, though, it looks like you're using coolmonitor. Is there any way to get disk space to show in gigs instead of megs? And how did you get your taskbar to span across monitors?

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: DJFuji

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: DJFuji

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: DJFuji

Originally posted by: Eli
pic

somebody needs a bigger monitor and higher resolution....

you mean like this
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/TheEvil1/PICTURES.JPG

No, i mean like this

me = win

i cropped that last one

Anubis,

I still contend that i have more overall pixels than you do:

me: 4423680
you: 3840000

HA!

Seriously, though, it looks like you're using coolmonitor. Is there any way to get disk space to show in gigs instead of megs? And how did you get your taskbar to span across monitors?

Application name: UltraMon (Dual Monitor Orgasm)

 

[Anubis]

Application name: UltraMon (Dual Monitor Orgasm)

hahahaha thats 1 way of putting it

 

[Sketcher]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: DJFuji

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: DJFuji

Originally posted by: Eli
pic

somebody needs a bigger monitor and higher resolution....

you mean like this
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/TheEvil1/PICTURES.JPG

No, i mean like this

me = win

i cropped that last one

No Croppage Here (EDIT: my bad. Link is of my Dual 18" LCD's. Meant to post desktop from triple 19" LCD's but seem to have misplaced the shot).

Regarding the OP: I use WinXP Thumbnail View and Canon's Zoombrowser auto date method like Eli mentioned.

 

[Bassyhead]

all in a folder with albums named by date first then a subject, for example: yyyy_mm_dd subject. My camera's downloading software automatically puts the dates in.