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How Should I Organize My Photos For Forum Posting?

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bossgard:
What kind of method are you photographers using to organize your photos so you can find the right one when you want to?

I'm looking for something that can lead me through a step-by-step system so that in the end I can tell if I have existing on my computer a proper re-sized photo image to post to the Forum.

Kodak Easy-Share lets me organize my photos thus:
TABS –will let me organize my photos by using the Forum Directory List Topics/Sub-Topics such as NATURE. (Tabs will let me see all of my NATURE tabs at one time.)
ALBUM – will let me organize my photos by name ‘DIRTY HARRY’S BALCONY’.
CAPTION – a 250 character description of the photo, as in ‘A LOOKOUT ON TOP OF A HILL, etc.’ The Caption is supposed to ride along with the photo, and appear in the Posting.

Taking all of the above into consideration, I then want to go through the new FOLDER/SUBFOLDER procedure on my computer to create something on the order of FORUM IMAGES/DIRTY HARRY/DH#001. (The number referring to the fact that the image is #1 in location in the DIRTY HARRY’S album.) By then locating DH#001, on FORUM IMAGES I can post properly to the Forum. Sound possible?

My scans and their resultant images will undoubtedly be included in this same type of process.

Thanks,
-Toby

ideasguy:
Photos can be organised in an infinite number of ways.
However, if you just happen to have 1000's then organising them by Category can be very laborious.

I have two fairly simple organisational requirements.
a) Family - one Folder called Family, with sub folders.
b) Other - A new Folder each Year with sub folders (for Garden Photos etc).
e.g. When I downloaded such images from my Canon camera in 2009 I directed it to the _pics2009. The camera software makes sub folders by date taken in the format YYYYmmdd.
This can be seen in the following screenshot (e.g. 20090624 in the screenshot is 24th June 2009).

There is always an overlap (e.g. family members just happen to get in the way when I'm taking a photo of something looking good in the garden  ;D)

I usually keep the photos in that format but may edit the folder name to make it specific.
e.g. 20120612-Daires Christening (on 12th June 2012)

Look under Tools on the Ideas Genie Pro program menu and use the program Resize Images-GA051
Here's a screenshot after going through the steps (they are numbered in the screenshot).

http://www.flowergenie.co.uk/forumImages/ga051s01-1.gif

If you want to keep your forum sized images organised and separate from their original location then you could do something along the lines shown in the screenshot.

From this you can see that Ive made a suggestion for you.
Make a folder called Forum (see Step 3).
You could direct ALL your resized photos to that folder. By that I mean every time you have to create a resized photo for the forum, direct it to the same location every time you use GA051.
Note the sizes in the screenshot - Max Height and Max Width both set to 600. This is perfect for the forum.
In that folder, make sub folders if you prefer to keep them sub-divided in some way.
Here Ive made one called Begonias  ;)

Suggestions only Toby. I'm sure everone has their own method for organising photos.

bossgard:

George, I've printed out the screenshot, and I think I'm understanding what to do.

Maybe, by the time I get through, it will be a combination of both. That is using both the Kodak Easyshare organizing tips and GA051 RESIZE PHOTOS. I have to use the RESIZE anyway, its just where I direct the reduced copies that will be important.
 
I will work it through, if I've got any problems I'll get in touch.

Thanks,

Toby

Palustris:
Adobe elements has an Organise facility, but no idea if it is any good as I am not organised. I keep all my photos in Folders appropriately named. The Folder contains the image as downloaded from the camera. Inside that Folder is another one containing resized images. Sometimes there is then a third folder containing images of a different size depending on which website they may be sent to. For example, if I am doing a Web page through Ideas Genii then there will be a sub-folder with the images I am going to use in the original folder.
Obviously all these images are also stored elsewhere, in case.

bossgard:

SCBG - especially for George!

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