Comments on: Organize: Your Digital Photos – Part 1 http://www.elizabethannedesigns.com/living/2009/01/30/organize-your-digital-photos-part-1/ Food, Lifestyle, Newlywed Life and Crafts Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:37:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Tiffany Nguyen http://www.elizabethannedesigns.com/living/2009/01/30/organize-your-digital-photos-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-336 Tiffany Nguyen Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:26:38 +0000 http://www.elizabethannedesigns.com/living/?p=1086#comment-336 Hi! A few digital photo organization tips... I organize my digital photos based on year and event (ex. 2009 > New Year Celebration; Valentine's; Jenn's 1st Birthday). To save space on your computer/laptops, I recommend saving all your photos on an external hard drive (i heart western digital passport external hard drives. they're small and portable!). For PC computers: You can also rename your photos from the generic file names by selecting all the photos in the folder, right click , rename the photo files to the appropriate event name. This makes searching for photos really easy. For Macs: use the iPhoto software to tag keywords and the name of the person(s) in your photo. This will allow you to sort through your photos with ease (ex. if you want to create a slideshow or print photos of your daughter Melissa, type "Melissa" in the search bar at the bottom of the iPhoto window. iPhoto will show all the pictures tagged Melissa. Hi! A few digital photo organization tips…

I organize my digital photos based on year and event (ex. 2009 > New Year Celebration; Valentine’s; Jenn’s 1st Birthday).

To save space on your computer/laptops, I recommend saving all your photos on an external hard drive (i heart western digital passport external hard drives. they’re small and portable!).

For PC computers: You can also rename your photos from the generic file names by selecting all the photos in the folder, right click , rename the photo files to the appropriate event name. This makes searching for photos really easy.

For Macs: use the iPhoto software to tag keywords and the name of the person(s) in your photo. This will allow you to sort through your photos with ease (ex. if you want to create a slideshow or print photos of your daughter Melissa, type “Melissa” in the search bar at the bottom of the iPhoto window. iPhoto will show all the pictures tagged Melissa.

]]> By: Corey http://www.elizabethannedesigns.com/living/2009/01/30/organize-your-digital-photos-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-335 Corey Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:06:56 +0000 http://www.elizabethannedesigns.com/living/?p=1086#comment-335 My biggest advice is to 1 - do not store your pictures (if you are on PC) in your "My Documents" folder. It slows the computer down as Windows isn't designed to run well with a lot of memory taken up in that folder. Move it to a C: folder. 2 - Organize your pictures by year then month then date or event. For example, I have a 2008 folder, then all of the months and in the months each date that I took pics I have 122508 etc. If you want to remember what you shot that date just title the folder 122508 - Christmas. Puts it in chronological order which really helps when trying to print for albums and when trying to find a shot!! My biggest advice is to 1 – do not store your pictures (if you are on PC) in your “My Documents” folder. It slows the computer down as Windows isn’t designed to run well with a lot of memory taken up in that folder. Move it to a C: folder. 2 – Organize your pictures by year then month then date or event. For example, I have a 2008 folder, then all of the months and in the months each date that I took pics I have 122508 etc. If you want to remember what you shot that date just title the folder 122508 – Christmas. Puts it in chronological order which really helps when trying to print for albums and when trying to find a shot!!

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