Doing a little research in preparation for a massive effort of tagging/organizing all of my photos (Rrrrr!).
Found an interesting tip for Windows Explorer and wanted to share. While not earth-shattering, it was helpful! Web link to article (with pictures) follows:
Make photos easier to find by giving them descriptive names
Published: June 20, 2005
When you download images from your digital camera to your computer, the file names of the images have nothing to do with the event or scene that you were taking pictures of. Renaming each file manually is time-consuming, but by using this Windows XP technique you can quickly rename a folder of digital photos all at once. When you use this technique on a folder, all the files in the folder end up with a single name (including a sequential number) that relates to the subject of the images. Using this technique to rename your digital photos makes it easier to locate the one you're looking for at a later date-a photo named museum of flight august (18).JPG, for example, is easier to find than that same photo named DSCN1518.JPG.
To rename digital photos with a common name and sequential numbering
1. Click Start and then click My Pictures.
2. Open a folder of digital photo files whose names you want to change.
3. Click Edit and then click Select All.
4. Right click on the first digital photo file in the list and then click Rename.
The name of the first digital photo file is highlighted and ready to be edited.
5. Type the name you want to use to identify all the digital photo files in the folder. Choose a name that allows you to identify a photo from this folder at a later date.
NOTE: Be sure to type the file extension after the file name. In this example we use the extension .jpg after the file name museum of flight august because these image files are jpeg format, which is the format that most digital cameras use.
6. Press Enter on your keyboard to rename all the digital photo files in the folder and add sequential numbering to the file names.
http://www.microsoft.com …arnmore/renamephotos.mspx
