Photo organisation
 

How do you lot organise your photos and where you have stored back ups etc.
Specialist programs, apps or Excel, Access templates available ?, or do I have to create my own.
Thanks in advance

Re: Photo organisation
 

I upload everything to my desktop PC. I have a portable hard drive that runs a backup programme on startup and if I want to add anything here I upload individual pics to Photobucket so I have something to link to.

In terms of organisation, the Canon utility that pulls new pics from my camera to the PC creates folders for each day I took pictures. There may well be some more complex methods out there but this simple approach is enough for the volume of shots I take.

Re: Photo organisation
 

Adobe lightroom or bridge are very good for organising but I'm sure there are free apps that let you do the same functionality.

My general workflow involves:

download everything from the card whilst tagging it with any information like month, location, people (just typed phrases)

Preview pictures and rate any that I think I can do anything with as 1 star, filter my view for developing down to 1 star rated and process them as necessary.

Increase rating on any that turn out good, usually 2-3 stars but 4 sometimes.

This means along with the metadata captured by the camera (lens info, date, f-stop) and the rating I can preview my library of pictures in a number of ways. I can select show me pictures I've tagged as "Delamere Forest" that have a rating of 2 of greater which instantly shows my decent pictures from there.

It seems a hassle to tag images with data and then rating them as such but it pays off later.

Does anyone know of software which does that kind of thing for free?

Re: Photo organisation
 

I have folders for all of mine & title them accordingly (motorbike shows{date/year}, bike trips-where in the country, Motorbike pics, etc)

Re: Photo organisation
 

The EOS Utility that was on the CD in the camera box does it? It prompts for a comment before it uploads when you plug the lead into the camera. Not sure about already-uploaded pics as I've not tried.

Photo organisation
 

As per Daddyjob pretty much, but on Flickr.