Managing your photo collections?

tres · 20 Mar 2016 at 10:00

Picasa still. It's just so simple and easy

Vimes · 20 Mar 2016 at 10:03

tres said:
Picasa still. It's just so simple and easy

As noted before that is my favourite. It does some pretty simple but effective photo repairs inc straightening photos etc. Its cataloging my named folders is also good.
Sad that Google have stopped its development though.

ACDsee used to be my choice years ago but then got seriously bloated.

Will Gill · 20 Mar 2016 at 11:39

Lightroom and then use amazon prime to back them all up for free, Ive currently got just over 3TB in there, costing me nothing more than the monthly subscription for what is essentially the delivery service (i.e. what I originally subscribed for) :cool:

Hawk Tuah · 20 Mar 2016 at 18:09

I've got all my digital photos from 1997 to now in year, then yyyy-mm-dd occasion. Basically, what windows does when you insert a memory card, but broken down by year.

Nowadays, I use dropbox to upload all photos from all of our devices, then each month cut them from the uploads folder to pictures.

Recently, I uploaded my entre photo album (85000 photos) to Google Photos. Took a while, but works pretty well to view them easily from anywhere.

Pawnless Endgame · 20 Mar 2016 at 20:36

Bug One said:
I've got all my digital photos from 1997 to now in year, then yyyy-mm-dd occasion. Basically, what windows does when you insert a memory card, but broken down by year.

Do you mean photos digitised via a scanner from 1997, or did you actually have a digicam back then? What sort of picture resolution did digicams take back then? Must had cost you a fortune too!!

I think my parents had their first digicam in 2000 and it took 1024x768. Wasn't cheep back then either.

I had my first digicam in 2004 and it took 4MP. Camera was about £175 (Olympus C765UZ).

Vimes · 20 Mar 2016 at 20:54

Mine was a Kodak DC200 bought around 1998. It was 1 megapixel with a resolution of 1152x864 and cost about £400.
Before that our first digital camera would only take 640x480 photos, which quite poor, also that cost a small fortune. But was soon exchanged for the Kodak.

Hawk Tuah · 21 Mar 2016 at 07:35

Pawnless Endgame said:
Do you mean photos digitised via a scanner from 1997, or did you actually have a digicam back then? What sort of picture resolution did digicams take back then? Must had cost you a fortune too!!

I think my parents had their first digicam in 2000 and it took 1024x768. Wasn't cheep back then either.

I had my first digicam in 2004 and it took 4MP. Camera was about £175 (Olympus C765UZ).

Yes, I got my first digital camera in 1997. It was an Olympus that took 0.3 megapixel photos (640x480). It was actually a decent camera. The pictures were bright and clear when monitors were also 640x480. However looking at the photos now the resolution was just too low.

I replaced it in 1999 for one that took 1 megapixel photos. That one was a crap camera, but the better resolution made up for it.

I haven't uploaded anything before 2003 to Google photos as the cameras before then didn't a save exif data properly.

Vimes · 21 Mar 2016 at 08:34

Bug One said:
Yes, I got my first digital camera in 1997. It was an Olympus that took 0.3 megapixel photos (640x480). It was actually a decent camera. The pictures were bright and clear when monitors were also 640x480. However looking at the photos now the resolution was just too low.

I replaced it in 1999 for one that took 1 megapixel photos. That one was a crap camera, but the better resolution made up for it.

I haven't uploaded anything before 2003 to Google photos as the cameras before then didn't a save exif data properly.

That was the brand, Olympus....!

I couldn't remember the brand of the 640x480 camera I first bought the year before the Kodak 1MP. I thought that it was not good, the 640x480 has serious limitations, even then..!
I got mine from PC world.

kona786 · 21 Mar 2016 at 08:37

Pawnless Endgame said:
Update for Vimes - I've just ran FastStone Photo Resizer, and it's EXACTLY what I was after, so many thanks! Batch resize, but allowing to maintain the original file dates. Extra points that the site offered a portable zip as well, which I swear by

Photoshop also has an awesome batch resizer.

Nikumba · 21 Mar 2016 at 08:58

I have a root folder for photos then under that folders called RAW, Working, JPGs under that years, then under that folder named YYYY_MM_DD_Subject use _ instead of spaces.

Works pretty well for me.

Bunka · 21 Mar 2016 at 10:57

Dump everything into iPhoto and rename the event on import.

Craig321 · 21 Mar 2016 at 11:01

Does LightRoom allow you to tag photos etc. so you can search easily down the line?

I currently just have folders, which I name with the date and event, but it's getting a bit messy

Pho · 21 Mar 2016 at 11:10

Craig321 said:
Does LightRoom allow you to tag photos etc. so you can search easily down the line?

I currently just have folders, which I name with the date and event, but it's getting a bit messy

Yep, you can add as many keywords as you want.

Techno_Viking · 21 Mar 2016 at 11:10

I save my photos as Year / Month / Occasion, e.g. 2015 / December / Christmas day.

I upload all photos to my NAS which auto syncs with Amazon prime in case my house burns down.

I use 'Sweet Home!' to auto backup photos from my phone to my NAS when i connect to wi-fi at home. Everything is seamless now with little faffing around.

Craig321 · 21 Mar 2016 at 11:40

Pho said:
Yep, you can add as many keywords as you want.

Not to hijack this thread or anything

but what's the correct way to import to an existing photos folder?

So like Raymond has screenshoted, I have created a Photographs folder which I want to import in to, but by default when I click Import it'll just reference that imported folder in the folders section rather than actually putting the new imported photos in to the Photos folder.

I see I can right click the existing folder & import, but is there a way to default this action, so I can literally just click the main Import button, choose the photos off my SD card or whatever and hit done and it'll do it all for me?

Pho · 21 Mar 2016 at 14:04

Do you mean to move all the photos into your photos folder rather than leaving them?

From what I remember you need to either user a card-reader or copy the photos to a temporary folder or something on your PC first; Lightroom doesn't seem to give you the "move" option when importing directly from a camera.

Craig321 · 21 Mar 2016 at 14:54

Ah ok, just wanted to make sure I wasn't going through a few extra unnecessary steps of right clicking the folder, import, select the files, click import.

Also found the 'Move' option at the top of LightRoom import window since posting which seems to do the trick & it also remembers your last selected folder, so that does what I need quite nicely.

Thanks

Danthus · 14 Apr 2016 at 22:45

I need to get to grips with backing up Lightroom.

I previously just copied the lot manually.

I my main PC I have two 3TB drives, Data and Backup, I also have a HP Microserver with 6TB in RAID 5.

My plan is to automatically copy Data >> Backup >> Server.

What would people recommend for backing up online, I have 1TB with OneDrive available and I have an Amazon Prime account or is it worth subscribing to Crashplan?