A bit off topic...what do you use to organize your digital photos

[kezug]

By all means, I am not a pro, but I have a rather large collection of digital photo's spanning about 6 years now. I simply have my photo's in folders by Year, then inside each Year are sub folders for the events that occurred.

However, lately, when I import my files, I want some to be sized appropriately for email (I want to send 10 photos to so and so...) what is the best way to select my 10 photo's have them resized so that they are ready for email?

Also, what photo editing software is good for handling your basic corrections (contrast, brightness, cropping, smudging, etc.. along with even some advanced features) do you recommend?

I am hoping these are free!

Right now, I am using Canon's zoomBrowser and PSP (an old version that crashes often)

Thanks.

[Kevan]

I save the folders that come off my camera in month/year folders. Then for those photos that I've doctored, I've done the same as you, keeping those by subject within a finished folder. Beyond that, I keep my favs on my Flickr account safe from any voodoo that might damage what happens at home. Problem is...I'm a pretty far behind in getting my site updated.

The hard drive needs to be replaced since the current one is getting a bit old, but now I'll get loads more storage for my buck.

[tmwag]

Also, what photo editing software is good for handling your basic corrections (contrast, brightness, cropping, smudging, etc.. along with even some advanced features) do you recommend?

I am hoping these are free!


Well, Photoshop Elements is popular and reasonably priced. I use verion 7. Canon's DPP software that comes along with most of the Canon line is free...What camera you have?

[kezug]

Well, Photoshop Elements is popular and reasonably priced. I use verion 7. Canon's DPP software that comes along with most of the Canon line is free...What camera you have?

I have the G11

[tmwag]

If you shoot raw with your G11 by all means use the DPP raw converter. It gives you a very good starting point for futher processing

[liannallama]

I use ACDSee for organizing and tagging. I can make as many tags as I want and I can tag a photo by person, place, color, theme, holiday all for one photo if I want or whatever else I decide! Then I can star my favorites and search by star, exif data, and lots more. there is a little spot to hold photos and it is easy to rearrange and view them and then you can easily pop them into photoshop (or wherever) to edit or you can use their rudimentary editing program (their web sizing feature is really easy too to re-size and re-save as desired)