Category — Organize Pictures

Workflow is a new buzz word that appears everywhere from making cars to mowing your lawn. Photographers also love to talk about their workflow and how their workflow is more efficient than another workflow. In this article I want to take a step back and look at what a workflow is and in particular to see its application to photography.

There is so much information about photography workflow on the net that it is very hard to sort through all the articles. Many articles are just being copied and edited from blog to blog and they are not that helpful. On the other hand there are a few articles that will definitely help you in fine tuning your photography workflow. I am posting two links here with the hope that they will help you as they helped me.

Keywords or tags are the hottest topic when it comes to organizing your pictures. So what does an image organizer software do in order to create and add keywords to image files ?

Now that I have explained the different types of image metadata there is one more question to answer: how does this image metadata end up in your image files? This article will explain the road very frequently traveled by image metadata.

Tagging your images is so cool, compared with using plain old folders…at least that’s what everyone says But how do your carefully created keywords get attached to your images? What are EXIF, IPTC and XMP? And most of all…why should you care about all of these acronyms?

There is a lot of information on OrganizePictures.com. Sometimes it’s hard for a first time visitor to find what he or she needs. That’s why I created a new page called START HERE ! This page contains most of the core articles I have written about organizing pictures. So it actually contains everything you need to know about organizing your pictures. It’s true that there is a lot more on my page, but this is where all new visitors should start.

I have been looking for a long time for some software that would allow me to manage keywords in an efficient manner. What do I mean by efficient? It’s pretty simple: all I want is the ability to group my keywords into categories or domains. For example: I want car, boat, ship, carriage, bus and bicycle to all be grouped into a domain called transportation. Can I do that with Adobe Lightroom?

When I read articles regarding the creation of keywords for the purpose of tagging pictures, I see two kinds of advice: some say you should just start adding keywords to your images others say you should be careful and think through your keywords before creating them.

It is rare when a complex problem can have a simple solution. Most of the times however, a complex problem can have a simple solution that only works well for some of the times. This is the case with folder based method of organizing your pictures. So, how do you know when folders are not enough?

Most people believe that tags and folders exclude each other, but this article will show that if used together they can create a simple yet powerful organization structure for your pictures.