drdan
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Right now I create folders named Album 1, Album 2 etc with category folders for various common themes like Pikes Peak Light, Flowers, Grandkids etc. I also have an "edit pics" folder in each album where I do all my editing and saving of edited versions. Once you have created one Album you can just make more and copy the empty category folders into it and have a bunch of numbered albums (complete with category folders) in reserve. Once I get 650-680MB of pictures in an album I close that one to further additions and make two copies to CD's, one of which goes offsite. I also regularly backup my pictures to an external hard drive in case of primary hard drive failure. Even though I only transfer about 10% of my pictures to my computer I have 14.5 GB of pictures from the last year.
By having premade category folders it's much easier to sort pics as they come off the camera so I don't have to do it later. Pictures that I know I'm going to edit I also copy directly to the edit pics folder in the currently active album as I'm picking and choosing off the camera.
That way I can always go ahead and edit anything in the "edit pics" folder and know I still have the original safe in it's category folder. It's a lot easier to search for a picture by category also.
I've just slowly evolved this system but it has it's short comings. What do you use?
By having premade category folders it's much easier to sort pics as they come off the camera so I don't have to do it later. Pictures that I know I'm going to edit I also copy directly to the edit pics folder in the currently active album as I'm picking and choosing off the camera.
That way I can always go ahead and edit anything in the "edit pics" folder and know I still have the original safe in it's category folder. It's a lot easier to search for a picture by category also.
I've just slowly evolved this system but it has it's short comings. What do you use?