kpsk_sony wrote:
I have totally ruined my relationship with Photoshop (Which I probably should never ever have tried to work with). I am unable to function in a presentable manner. What I need is some competent computer skilled person who can lay hands on my famitchked history of photography and help me make sense of my library/files/printing and on and on! I am willing to pay for this service. I live in the Kansas City area. Am retired and have plenty of time to work with someone from out of state or in state.
I don't think many folks will believe or understand the complications I have gotten myself into. Only answer if you have tons of patience and fortitude.
Karta Purkh K.
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If your files are disorganized, you should open File Explorer. The icon is a small yellow icon that looks like a small file folder with a blue bar at the bottom. It is on your taskbar. Then click on the Pictures word on the left column of the window. That will open a Pictures directory. Then explore that to see what is stored in the Pictured directory.
If there are no sub-directories on the Pictures file, decide on how you want to sort the photos. It could be by year, or by subject or by event. For example: Grandchildren, Flowers, Nature, Pets, Wild Animals, or the names of people, a vacation, etc. Once you have determined the file names you can click on the word NEW, which appears at the top-left corner of the window and create your sub-directories in the Pictures main directory.
If you already have some photos in the Pictures directory, begin sorting them into the new directories you created.
If your photos are scattered about in different directories, or are in the Documents directory, you will need to search for them and move them to the sub-directories you created in the Pictures directory.
If you have a Cloud directory set-up with Adobe or Microsoft and you want them on your computer, you will have to copy them to sub-directories in your Pictures directory.
After every photo file is located and organized, be sure to buy an external solid-state drive that is large enough and back-up all your personal files. I would hate to see you do all that work and then lose everything in a computer crash.
To find photos in random locations that have been lost in cyber hell, you can do a general "wild card search" to find them or, at the top bar of the Documents folder, click on the "Filter" icon that looks like a funnel and select the images category. You can then search every directory in which you might have saved photos and move the ones you want into the Pictures sub-directories you created.
Once you have sorted and arranged your photos, you can open Photoshop and, when the welcome screen appears, click on the word Open and navigate to your Pictures directory and find the images you want to process.
ONCE AGAIN: BE SURE TO BACKUP EVERYTHING TO AN EXTERNAL DRIVE! I have lost some of by best photos because I neglected this important safeguard.