Need Help !!!! Literally lol...
Apr 29, 2012 23:25:57 #
Can anyone tell me an easy way to not only download your pics to your pc but to find them easily when browsing, I have saved them in various places and spend sometimes hours finding the ones I want.... I
ve used Dropbox, Picasa and many others, I want something that is just EASY to upload but easier to find. I take lots of photos for my job as a Realtor, it could be so easy if I had them in a file and each pic marked so that when uploading them to different sites as well as MLS, it would be as easy as taking the photos and downloading them. HELP!!!!!
ve used Dropbox, Picasa and many others, I want something that is just EASY to upload but easier to find. I take lots of photos for my job as a Realtor, it could be so easy if I had them in a file and each pic marked so that when uploading them to different sites as well as MLS, it would be as easy as taking the photos and downloading them. HELP!!!!!
Apr 29, 2012 23:31:59 #
I use iView and love that. I mark my folders with the year numbered month and what it is.
Apr 30, 2012 00:02:20 #
To put it simply folders and sub folders. Come up with a system that makes perfect sense to you. You might try a folder for all files as they come out of the camera with sub folders for each month and day. Another folder with subfolders for edited photos. The sub folders could be dates or categiries of photos such as landscapes, wildlife, portraits.
Find something that makes sense with the way you think and then keep using it for all new photos.
Find something that makes sense with the way you think and then keep using it for all new photos.
Apr 30, 2012 00:05:38 #
pse 9 or 10. easy todownload comes with organizer were you put tags on your photos like dog, cars, trees, cousin marsha etc. when you need to find a specific photo instead of searching all through my pictures you open up pse and click on the tag and voila! much faster to find.
Apr 30, 2012 01:23:33 #
I believe that one of the programs that came with your new camera will help with that. You can also create a main folder on your hard drive named Pictures (or something that makes sense to you) and then create subfolders under that. I recommend that you name those folders using both a date code and subject, ie., 42912 Subject. Then simply copy the images from the card to that particular folder.
Good luck.
Good luck.
Apr 30, 2012 02:39:15 #
I do the same as BigDave. I don't use any of those "organizers".
I make folders like this: ART, FAMILY, FRIENDS...and I make folders inside those. In Family I have me, hubby, my family, his family, children, grandchildren, our dogs, our birds, our horses and our home.
In "FRIENDS" I have Horse Friends, Art friends, Customers... you get the idea. I know exactly where my pictures are and get to them quickly. I store all of them on 2 external hard drives...2, in case one goes sour!
I make folders like this: ART, FAMILY, FRIENDS...and I make folders inside those. In Family I have me, hubby, my family, his family, children, grandchildren, our dogs, our birds, our horses and our home.
In "FRIENDS" I have Horse Friends, Art friends, Customers... you get the idea. I know exactly where my pictures are and get to them quickly. I store all of them on 2 external hard drives...2, in case one goes sour!
Apr 30, 2012 05:14:21 #
oldmalky
Loc: West Midlands,England.
I use windows vista and with that program comes a windows program that says pictures and i download all my pictures into that, they are automatically logged into the date and I name each file as i load them.
Apr 30, 2012 06:29:09 #
jprib wrote:
Can anyone tell me an easy way to not only downloa... (show quote)
Consider checking out Adobe Lightroom. It addresses your upload and search issues.
Apr 30, 2012 06:58:08 #
jprib wrote:
Can anyone tell me an easy way to not only downloa... (show quote)
We've all got our favourite way of storing them. I use a separate sub-folder for each shoot, and name the folder with the date and subject, eg 2012.04.01_Grandchildren (using year/month/day in that order keeps them in the right date order), then put each sub-folder into a folder for the year, and each year folder into a folder titled "Photos". As far as finding a particular photo is concerned, you can assign keywords to a photo as you process and save it, then in the future you can search for that/those keyword/s to find it again (I use Lightroom for this).
Apr 30, 2012 07:20:15 #
Apr 30, 2012 07:44:00 #
Thank you everyone for taking the time to give great advice.. I do create folders, that's not the problem, say I have 000 Bell Avenue- in that folder I may have 100 photos, I mark them each with a saying (something to recognize or place a 1,2 and so on, this way when I am uploading them to my MLS I find the folder, but then it seems like what I have named each photo is gone or just a few come up with a name, and my files are scattered througout my hard drive, some in Dropbox, Picase etc. I want to be able to put them in one place and get to a certain photo without opening all of them.
Apr 30, 2012 08:25:13 #
hj
Loc: Florida
I'm sure you won't buy a computer just to improve your handling of photos... but as with everything APPLE....iPhoto is easy. All pics in one place. Each download creates a dated "event" (basically a folder) which you can name and search easily. I've often said "If I couldn't have my Mac, I wouldn't have a computer" Yes, I have used non-macs in the past, unfortunately.
Apr 30, 2012 08:38:27 #
Horseart wrote:
I do the same as BigDave. I don't use any of those... (show quote)
I've been doing exactly that for years, and it works for me. When I'm looking for a picture, I just think of what it is, and I know what folder to open.
Apr 30, 2012 08:40:35 #
It sounds like you need to do some cross-referencing, as well. If you have either a physical or digital file on a certain listing, perhaps that file should include a cross-reference to where the photos are stored. It's possible that by using reference numbers that would include both the year, month, date, and address of your location it would make it easier to do a search (i.e. 061309.2323Sugarland.75218.01).
Apr 30, 2012 08:54:39 #
It sounds like you may be renaming the files by applying a label to them within some program and NOT changing the real file name.
The fact that you say your pictures are scattered on your hard drive shows that you may have more than one way to load pictures on to your computer, and they use diffferent paths and methods.
The fact that you say your pictures are scattered on your hard drive shows that you may have more than one way to load pictures on to your computer, and they use diffferent paths and methods.
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