DPinBucks
Distinguished Member
Can I ask how you organise your photos? I'm looking for ideas, because no method I can think of seems ideal.
Background: I've started the long process of digitising 2,000+ slides & negatives from the
film era. Add this to my digital archives, and I'll have well over 5,000 pics to deal with.
Clearly, I don't need them all, especially most of the old stuff, but I'm going to end up with lots of sets of 1 or 2 pictures as mementos of past events (mostly people, I guess).
I currently organise simply by Windows Folders under date & "event", eg 2018-09 Barcelona, but I'm going to get too many with just one or two pictures in each.
So what do you do? How do you sort them? Do you use tags or other metadata to help? Do you use any 3rd party software? I hate the current Windows 10 system, but I do have Photoshop Organizer, which is a bit clunky to my mind. What about using shortcuts to allow multiple filing without multiple copies?
I've got to be ruthless about throwing away old stuff, too.
Ideas welcome; many thanks.
Mods: Please move to photography thread if you think it should be there.
Background: I've started the long process of digitising 2,000+ slides & negatives from the
film era. Add this to my digital archives, and I'll have well over 5,000 pics to deal with.
Clearly, I don't need them all, especially most of the old stuff, but I'm going to end up with lots of sets of 1 or 2 pictures as mementos of past events (mostly people, I guess).
I currently organise simply by Windows Folders under date & "event", eg 2018-09 Barcelona, but I'm going to get too many with just one or two pictures in each.
So what do you do? How do you sort them? Do you use tags or other metadata to help? Do you use any 3rd party software? I hate the current Windows 10 system, but I do have Photoshop Organizer, which is a bit clunky to my mind. What about using shortcuts to allow multiple filing without multiple copies?
I've got to be ruthless about throwing away old stuff, too.
Ideas welcome; many thanks.
Mods: Please move to photography thread if you think it should be there.