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Keeping pix/videos organized - opinions
"Julie (ImKiwi10)" schrieb
Sorry for the double post, but another thing that I would highly recommend is a web backup of all your photos. I use Flickr, and it only costs $25 a year for unlimited storage (I currently have about 7,500 photos in mine). I've got JungleDisk (www.jungledisk.com) installed on my PCs. I don't use it for my pictures, because I'm not so afraid of a fire in my apartment g Very handy, though, because the webspace simply acts like just another harddrive, "Drive J:" in my Windows explorer. Jochen from Germany |
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Keeping pix/videos organized - opinions
"Julie (ImKiwi10)" wrote in message ... Sorry for the double post, but another thing that I would highly recommend is a web backup of all your photos. I use Flickr, and it only costs $25 a year for unlimited storage (I currently have about 7,500 photos in mine). It archives your photos full size, so if you ever have a hard drive crash, a fire or whatever, you still have access to your original quality photos. I like this idea better than CD backups because in the event of a fire, your CD backups might get burned with the hard drive. It's a morbid thought, but something to think about! -Julie TDC Rapunzel, Food Rocks Head Chef and Keeper of the Monstro Table On a side note ... For those that DO use Flickr or a few other sites like Google to browse images, you might try this program I saw a few days ago : PicLens free download from http://piclens.com/site/ie/ It makes pictures on those sites appear like a Iphone, so you do not need to browse.view one at a time. Very cool. |
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Keeping pix/videos organized - opinions
Good tips - keep 'em coming - thanks
"Rob Steere" wrote in message ... "- Bobb -" wrote in message . .. For those that travel a lot and take pix/videos on vacation and store them on your PC ... have you found one way that works better than another ? Make travel folders by ... Location ? Time ? ( FLA - 2007 then month ?) I find that WHILE on vacation, I'm dumping from camera into one folder per day Day 1 - Miami Tour , Day 2 - Fishing Day 3 - Beach etc , and just dump all pix/videos into that folder and then erase the stick. I rename/edit them later ( on a rainy day of the trip or when I get home). When I get home I copy all of it to my desktop PC ( lots of disk space). I use the XP Camera Wizard uploader on my computer. It puts all photos in a single folder by date. I keep photos grouped together by event or trip. Most folders get added onto the folder name with a comment about what the event/trip was. ("Halloween Party 2007" or "Disney Trip") If there are a LOT of pics (such as from a Disney Trip) I might further separate the photos out by day, and add info as to what went on that day. ("2007-06-01 - Animal Kingdom, Epcot, PI") For my photo management, I use Picasa from Google. http://picasa.google.com It's free to download and use. You can also sign up for online albums through PicasaWeb. The software and the online albums are easily integrated for simple creation and uploading of albums. One thing I like about Picasa is that all of the edits you make to your photos aren't permanent changes. The edited photo is what you see within Picasa. And then if you want to save the changes permanently, it creates a backup of the original file in a subfolder. Unfortunately for Mac users, Picasa is not currently available for the Mac. -Rob |
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Keeping pix/videos organized - opinions
On Mar 9, 3:00*pm, "Julie (ImKiwi10)" wrote:
I guess maybe I take an overly simple route in organizing mine, but this is it. I have a folder on my desktop named "Photos." Inside "Photos" I have one folder for each trip where I've taken photos, named stuff like "RADP 12 Dec 2007", "LA/DLR April 2007", "Knoxville Zoo Feb 2008" and so on. So each trip has it's own folder, which also contains the month and year (since I have, say, 7 sets of WDW trip photos, but they were all taken at different times). I also have a "Random photos" folder where I put photos where I have taken just a few photos at a time. "Random photos" is the only one that has folders inside it, and they would be other smaller groups, like "Family", "My car", "My collections" and so on. As for video, I don't have much of it, so they all go into the "My Videos" folder, and have names similar to the photos. Ths is exactly the way that I do it also. Judy |
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Keeping pix/videos organized - opinions
Filing that way is fine , but you should NOT make the folder ON the
desktop. Put it elsewhere with a shortcut on your desktop. In Windows, the Desktop is a "special folder" associated with a profile. You do not want to make that area too large. I'm sure you could search Microsoft.com for specifics, but I'll just leave it as " To improve your computer's performance (and to find files more easily), it's best to store files in the My Documents folder rather than on the desktop ". "Judy" wrote in message ... On Mar 9, 3:00 pm, "Julie (ImKiwi10)" wrote: I guess maybe I take an overly simple route in organizing mine, but this is it. I have a folder on my desktop named "Photos." Inside "Photos" I have one folder for each trip where I've taken photos, named stuff like "RADP 12 Dec 2007", "LA/DLR April 2007", "Knoxville Zoo Feb 2008" and so on. So each trip has it's own folder, which also contains the month and year (since I have, say, 7 sets of WDW trip photos, but they were all taken at different times). I also have a "Random photos" folder where I put photos where I have taken just a few photos at a time. "Random photos" is the only one that has folders inside it, and they would be other smaller groups, like "Family", "My car", "My collections" and so on. As for video, I don't have much of it, so they all go into the "My Videos" folder, and have names similar to the photos. Ths is exactly the way that I do it also. Judy |
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Pretty much the way we do it, although we organize the folders by year, so
all the trip photo folders are within each year folder. Ellen |
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A friend of mine lost years of pictures [by fire]
.. The loss of one's photos in a fire is a relatively minor consequence for most people It may be minor compared to the other consequences of fire (such as losing your home), but still it can be painful. My friend lost years of photos of her children growing up. |
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I usually just load all of my previous pictures onto my computer in folders/categories by trips. That way I can reference all of my photos from a certain trip. I find this to be the easiest way to do it. The more simple things are the better.
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Keeping pix/videos organized - opinions
"ASMx4" wrote in message ... On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 12:04:42 -0700 (PDT), "Julie (ImKiwi10)" wrote: Sorry for the double post, but another thing that I would highly recommend is a web backup of all your photos. I use Flickr, and it only costs $25 a year for unlimited storage (I currently have about 7,500 photos in mine). It archives your photos full size, so if you ever have a hard drive crash, a fire or whatever, you still have access to your original quality photos. I like this idea better than CD backups because in the event of a fire, your CD backups might get burned with the hard drive. It's a morbid thought, but something to think about! -Julie TDC Rapunzel, Food Rocks Head Chef and Keeper of the Monstro Table Flickr IS cool but, I'm just too leary about giving stuff to Google...They're getting TOO big, imho and, frankly, I don't WANT everyone to see/download all my pics. (yeah, I know you can make the collections private but, are they REALLY private? If it's not on MY server, I presume it's "out there".) Especially since a 500 gig backup drive is so cheap; BestBuy has a Seagate unit for $129 in this weeks ad. Yeah, but the point is to store your photos offsite, not necessarily online. So you'd have to move the external disk to another location and periodically bring it back to update it. I use Picasa too and Adobe Photoshop Album. In the latter you can crosscorrelate your photos by tagging them. Like keeping WDW photos by trip but tagging them so you can look at all WDW photos. Or tagging all photos of one person. Marianne |
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