This Works-for-Me Wednesday is inspired by my own mistake. As soon as Caleb was born we started taking tons of pictures of him. I would load them onto the computer and name them cutesy names like "bad hair day," "acting silly," "tackle box 001," etc. This was fine (I thought) until I was catching up his scrapbook and I couldn't tell when those pictures were taken. (You can go into each file and see the date it was taken, but I wanted to be able to glance at a file of pictures and know which month of Caleb's life they were taken to make putting together the scrapbook easier.) Now I name the set of pictures I'm uploading things like "New Mexico Trip 7.06" or "September 22 2006" so the date is right there in front of me and I know how old Caleb was when the pictures were taken. It saves me tons of time and stress!
Works for Me!
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That's a good idea. 4 of us here have digital cameras and have too many pictures without individual labels (though each grouping is labeled, like "Jesse's 13th Birthday.") That's something I want to tackle some time.
That's how I do it and then using Picasa, I can glance through thumbnails and find what I am looking for and then go to the acutal folder.
I haven't posted my WFMW, yet...
That's a great idea....I've got
so many pictures that I need to organize on my computer!
I have recently invested in Creative Memories' photo software.
I haven't yet used it (*sigh*), but
it looks really nice for tackling this job!
--Tracy
You are so right, great suggestion.
I've done the same thing and had to learn the hard way too.
Yep, I have to do this too - I usually organize by month, and then sub-folders with the day. It's so easy to take a million pictures and then lose track of them!
I recently went digital - its great but so much more time consuming. My modification on your technique is that I label the folders "2006 July-Aug-Sept", that way, the computer will arrange the folders in order by year & I'll have four main folders per year. My photo program (came with Nikon camera) will display the pictures sectioned by photo date, which is also nice. Especially since I forget to rename the batches when I import. :)
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I finally realized I have over 2000 photos stored on this computer. I wish I'd organized them a little better when I was downloading like crazy. Getting it all straightened out, by date, is a winter project for sure. I waste way too much time looking for one specific photo.
I used to do the same exact thing with all of my pictures, my laptop computer was purchased solely so I could have a different computer to use without all my pictures stored on it (the desktop had that job) And now I find myself still uploading a bunch of pictures to my laptop, but now I name all of the folders according to month and all of the pictures I upload according to date, it's so much easier. Great tip! =)
I love that the digital photo has the date stamp embedded in there--it has saved me from wondering. I save mine only by date, but I like your specific event AND date.
i learned that the hard way, too! gah.
Came over from Owlhaven.
This is a good tip. I learned the hard way too.
My husband, bless his heart, recently went through and reorganized all ours. He listed them like this:
2006-01-18 Nettie's Birthday
It's fabulous because we take pictures almost every day, the computer automatically sorts them by date, and we can easily find them by topic if we don't remember a date.
Who knew we'd ever take this many pictures back in the film and print days!
Yup! I do the same thing!
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