What software program do you use to keep your digital pictures in order? digital photo album?

[Anonymous]

I have this huge folder of "my pics" with dates... I need help organizing them! I tried a few s/w photo albums a whicl eback but got distracted- basically- time to pick it up agian- appreciate any tips/ software that helps!

[Anonymous]

Photoshop Elements?

[zumbamama]

If you have Photoshop, Bridge is it's companion software for sorting/organizing images that allows you easily access the images in Photoshop. It's part of the Creative Suite package. There's also iPhoto, a free software that most Macs come with. There's probably similar options out there for PCs, though.

But even without a program, I would at least split them up into folders according to date and subject matter. I like to label each image as such: 0809_oceancity01.jpg, 0809_oceancity02.jpg, 03, 04, etc. Then they would all go in the Ocean City August 09 folder.

Delete the ones you don't like, they'll just take up unnecessary space on your hard drive.

Burn each folder to a disc, in case you ever lose the files on your drive.

It's quite tedious and time consuming. I still have tons of images to organize. But when you have a block of time to sort them all out, it will make finding them much easier later, like if you wanted to put on a slide show for visitors or something (which you can do with iPhoto).

[Anonymous]

Me, I haven't gotten around to this so I keep them all on the original SD card and buy new ones!

Not the best plan.

zumbamama has the best plan. I try to do this as well, but often don't cause I'm lazy.

[zumbamama]

Anonymous wrote:Me, I haven't gotten around to this so I keep them all on the original SD card and buy new ones!

Not the best plan.

zumbamama has the best plan. I try to do this as well, but often don't cause I'm lazy.

I am lazy too...photo archiving is a pain! Instead of CDs you could also get an external drive to store them on. Much faster than burning CDs.

[Anonymous]

I upload all my pics to photobucket. Makes it easier to email them to the grandparents.

[Anonymous]

We use flickr.com