Photography Organizers

~ Laura

I spent Saturday trying to get the hang of Photoshop Organizer. Frankly, it kicked my ass. I even watched the tutorials and still was frustrated. I've been told that I can't possibly go back to using iPhoto. 

Suggestions for photo organization, please. Lightbox? 

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7 thoughts on “Photography Organizers”

  4. I keep my photos on CDs that I carefully label with things like “Unsorted Photos, XX/XX/XXXX to XX/XX/XXXX plus 2010 tax documents. I think there may be another set from the other camera on my thumb drive so remember find that and put it on a different CD.”

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  5. Course, that only works if you put the CDs in a box that is safely stored in part of the basement with the fewest spiders. Plus, boxes have more space to write, so you can have detailed labels.

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  6. On a mac, graphic converter & large hard drives (in which, I have folders organized by date, that are basically the equivalent of MH’s boxes of CDs).
    I use exif converter to rename files so that the file name is the date the picture is taken. If a folder of pictures if from a particular event (hockey, for example), I’ll add that to the folder name.
    CD’s fail over time, though, so my solution is to have large hard drives (with a mirror backup) and then buy new hard drives every time one is full.
    Hard disks fail over time, too, but since mine are all attached to my computer, I will know (and, it’s unlikely that my mirror will fail at the same time).
    I do not usually photograph in RAW, but when I do, I put the RAW files in a folder within the folder containing the jpegs, so that if there’s a beautiful picture I wish to manipulate, I can find the RAW version of it.
    (I’ve used this scheme for decades now — including when I used to organize images for vision research. It’s idiosyncratic but it works for me).

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  7. If it’s in the budget, Lightroom 4. Not just for organizing, but for improving the original photos. The new develop module is wonderful, and if you spend some time thinking about how it organizes things, and create some smart albums (photos that are 5 stars only, photos with capture date within last six weeks, etc.) you will find things much more easily. I cannot tolerate iPhoto’s organizational structure, though it’s pretty and does a great job with emailing photos.
    Give Lightroom a try, see what you think … especially if you shoot photos in RAW.

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