SQT: Tagging Photos
April 12th, 2008 · by David Bradley
I suspect lots of readers already do this, but if you want to make sure you can find your digital photos based on what each is a photo of, then when you import your images from your camera, instead of allowing the system to choose default naming, give them a keyword or tag-type name. This makes photo searching so much easier. For instance, if you have a photo of a flower, then name it “flower-rose-080412.jpg, for instance. That way, when you search for image files with *flower*, or *rose*, or that date you’ll find this and the other related photos you tagged that way.
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And if your photos are date sensitive (kids, vacation, etc.) use a naming scheme like “YYYY-MMDD Subject ###” — e.g., 2008-0412 Beach 003.jpg.” That way your photos will date-sort automatically.
And, of course, learn what IPTC metadata is and start using it.
I’m really up a creek when it comes to my photos. The organizational system I’ve got going is by month and year. I probably take about 100 pics a month on average so it’s not too hard to remember where a particular photo is but I must waste quite a good deal of time scrolling through my albums looking for stuff.
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I try to be strict with my self when I download photos, but sometimes you need to clear a card fast, so I’ve got lots of folders called CanonEOS567 full of CR2 and JPG files with simple numeric names and no tags. One day, I may actually get around to labeling them so they become accessible.
db
well,that’s a really good way of sorting and keeping photos in order but I was wondering not every photos name one can remeber;why not to sort out with the date first and then followed by the name.
In that way, one can atleast get to know the date and see the photo saved.
Interesting thought Farhaj. I’ve got thousands of images, it’s irrelevant what order the keywords are in when I’m using something like Picasa to search for specific images by date or description.
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