How do you organize your pictures?

[KuJoe]

Today we got home from getting my daughter her first haircut and we're uploading all of the photos and videos from 2 cameras to our Facebook accounts and while I was uploading my pictures I realized how unorganized my "Pictures" folder is and I wanted to find a way to make organizing my pictures easier. Right now I just have one folder called "camera" that I dump everything into and manually sort through each picture once every few months.

So what is your method? Do you use an application to help you or do you have a folder naming scheme? Do you just have a single directory where you sort by date? Do you have a naming scheme for your pictures or just leave the default name the camera gave it? Please share!

Thanks!

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I just started playing around with a cool app that comes with my home NAS called Photo Station 6, it still requires manual organizing from the looks of it but it's a really neat way to browse my photos from any device since there's an Android app for it.

 

[wlanboy]

I have an extra disk holding all pictures I ever made - synced to my NAS.

I have a folder for each year and one subfolder for each month.

Beyond that are camera name, dates and event names.


/2014/March/2014-03-20-olympus-irish-pub

I often just remember the camera model and the start/mid/end of month.

Best way to find pictures "done with my Olympus Pen by end of March"

 

[eva2000]

been using same naming scheme for years

shortname\date

i.e.

firsthaircut\20140420

every family member gets their own parent folder

mum\shortname\date

dad\shortname\date

or sometimes

mum\year\shortname\date

 

[mikho]

My mum had an Adobe application who sorted everything using the Exif info in the images, didn't matter where/how you saved the files.


Can't remember the exact name but it worked very nice.


Myself, I save everything based on year/month/occasion.

 

[SPINIKR-RO]

I use LightRoom for editing and organization.

 

[notFound]

Oh, don't ask me for advice. Managed to loose pretty much all of my photos pre-2010. However you organise your photos, always keep backups as always with everything. Luckily for me my family are always insistent I show send them photos of everything so they'll always have a backup. ;-)

 

[KuJoe]

@notFound I think I have backups covered.

And I am adding my tablet into the loop for realtime syncing also so I can have 2 mobile devices with all of my files.

 

[NodeWest-Dan]

Year/month/subject

 

[AMDbuilder]

year/subject (or event name)

 

[peterw]

/subject/year/month/event

This is the same way I am searching for pictures.

 

[howardsl2]

Google Picasa works great especially with the face recognization feature. Photos on which each person appears can be organized and tagged very quickly. I like it.

 

[cloudlix]

Year/month/day and name for it

 

[mikho]

I posted this on LET not long ago, looks interesting.

I got an offer from a paper I read that I could download free copies of CyberLink PhotoDirector 4 between May 26th and June 18th.


If you can get a Swedish, Norwegian or Finnish IP you can also download and recieve a free key for it.


All you have to do is to register a dummy account here : http://photodirector4.creativemark.co.uk


confirm the account via email and download the install files and generate a unique key.

 

[William]

Here/with this: https://pic.william.si/