Tips to organize digital photo collection properly
Organizing photos or looking for a particular photo seems like an overwhelming task. Yet having a system to organize digital photo for cataloguing and archiving the images definitely makes the process easier and much simpler.
Apart from developing a constant method for image cataloguing, photo organizers or albums are also great software programs to organize digital photo in just a breeze. While each one has his/her own organizing digital photo method, few guides are suggested.
Store Originals
After the digital photos have been downloaded, always archive the original files by burning them to DVD or CD. This will also prevent you from inadvertently overwriting the original images. You can go back to the disk and retrieve it. To be able to save space, add new photos until you will see that the disk is already full. Make sure to mark the CD with the particular event, year and its contents when you add another new pictures.
Toss Unnecessary Pictures
After archiving the original pictures to the disk, review the downloaded images. Flush out the unwanted shots. Delete the badly exposed pictures, out-of-focus, duplicates and the likes. Meanwhile, you can always use your photo enhancing software if you see that few images barely need enhancement. You can fix them and not right away resort to tossing. Every memory captured is always important.
Label the Images
When you download new images, make a new folder category in the computer. Never just dump all of them in one folder because it will definitely confuse you. There are few methods for labeling and structuring the folders. Commonly, to organize digital photo means sorting them out according to topic like schools, vacations, family, wedding, baby, sports, etc.
The default name of a downloaded image must be changed. Rename the individual image if you want. For renamed photos to be easily recognized, rename each image within the folders. You can also use the feature, Batch Process in renaming a group of pictures.
Not just organization, also protection
For sure you can never imagine losing a cool slideshow of your toddler's first birthday, can you? Computer crashes are often inevitable. Because of this, make sure you have a back up file of the downloaded images. You can burn them into DVD or CD or save in the USB if you have enough memory capacity. This is an inexpensive and easy insurance to organize your photo. Most laptops and PCs come with a CD or DVD burning software.
Finally, to better cherish and reminisce every memory spoken by every digital image, email them, frame them print them and enjoy them. This is the last step to organize digital photo.
