Tutorial 1 – Understand the issues

Why is organizing digital pictures so challenging and confusing ? Is there something fundamentally wrong with the way I’m organizing my pictures? Well, these might be some of the questions you may be asking yourself. This page is a shortcut to an important series of articles I have written. This series deals with explaining the fundamental issues that all digital photographers face when they try to organize their pictures. Well, read these articles to find out…and let me know what you think.

In order to organize your pictures efficiently you have to understand the available methods first.

The basic problem for organizing digital pictures is quantity. There are simply too many pictures that we can take. This was my first realization as I started out with my first digital camera. I was very excited that I can take lots of pictures and erase the bad ones. That was all cool until I realize just how many pictures I was creating. How do I organize all these pictures? Well…the articles below go into this fundamental question and what I have discovered.

Articles in this tutorial

1. Understand the problem – Learn the fundamental problem with organizing your picture.
2. Understand the solution for organizing your pictures – Learn the fundamental solution to organizing your pictures.
3. Tags vs. Folders – the great debate. A comparison of the two available methods for organizing your pictures.
4. How to use folders and tags the right way. Understanding what folders and tags are intended for you can learn how to take advantage of each method’s strength and avoid their weaknesses.

Essentials for organizing your digital photos

Here are the essential products and services I have come to rely on for many years to keep my media collection organized and safe. Even though these are affiliate links, I wholeheartedly recommend them.

Excellent Lightroom and Picasa alternative. If you need a cheaper and simpler photo manager then ACDSee Photo Studio for Mac (save 20% until Feb 15) or ACDSee Pro for Windows (save $20 until Feb 15) is my preferred solution for organizing all my media. It has a very fast browser, great image editing and it's simple to use.

If you do a lot of image editing like I do, I recommend using Adobe Lightroom Classic CC via the annual Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. Lightroom has best photo editing capabilities even though it comes with a steeper learning curve. If you do image editing, Adobe Lightroom is my favorite.

I recommend Backblaze Cloud Backup for affordable & reliable unlimited cloud backup. I have been using Backblaze for backing up all pictures & videos for more than 5 years now. All my invaluable digital memories are safe and secure. This is the best solution especially if you have a large quantity of media files.

Use a reliable & affordable external hard drive for backing up everything on your computer. It is absolutely essential for keeping all your memories backed up and safe.

Start organizing now using detailed, step-by-step instructions and videos:
Personal Coaching (closed) Independent Course Private Lessons
Reference book Basics book Picasa book

YOURS FREE! 10 crucial steps most people miss when organizing their digital photos

Most people want to just organize their digital pictures and ignore these crucial steps right at the beginning...when they are shooting and transferring their digital pictures. Then they wonder why they can't organize their digital photos! Avoid most people's mistakes and start on the right track!

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