Presented by Jeff Hensel September 14, 2017
Attendees: 19
Jeff shared some practical methods and tips to organize photos on your computer.
We will assume photos are on your computer. We have spoken before about methods to get photos from your smart phone or camera and on to your computer. Please feel free to go to the club website and look at the previous presentations.
This is informational as a reminder but I will not go into detail at this time.
However, I strongly recommend you choose a cloud service that can get photos from your smart phones and saved safely to the cloud.
After saving photos to a cloud service like Dropbox, Google Photos, iCloud or OneDrive, you can then install that service’s app on ;your computer and those same photos will then synchronize onto your computer.
I do not recommend using all of these services at the same time, I’m simply showing the more popular ones to you.
Dropbox
Pictures is not a cloud service but a folder that Windows creates
OneDrive is automatically comes for FREE from Microsoft
Google Drive is part of Google Photos (see the Google Photos folder highlighted in blue). You must manually install Google Drive and login to your Google Account used with Google Photos.
iCloud Photos is from Apple and works with iPhones, iPads and Macs.
Organizing photos can be a confusing topic because there are many methods to perform this necessary evil.
I will simply name a few. Although I have a favorite or two, all of these will work perfectly well.
To get things started, you might want to decide on a method that works for you.
Later, I will share and show what I do but this is strictly up to you and there are lots of “right” ways to do this.
You can organize photos using an app or you can simply use folders on your computer.
Again, lots of right ways to do this.
Although one might think of an album like a physical book, an album on a computer is “virtual” in nature. In others words, a photo is assigned to an Album but NOT physically moved anywhere.
Think of this as an Album mark is being placed on the photo file for a means of organizing.
3:58 Tutorial from Microsoft. File Explorer in Windows 10 Microsoft Training
NOTE: There is a banner ad across the screen encouraging you to get the entire course for free. You can quickly close this ad by clicking the small ‘X’ in the upper right corner of the ad.
Organizing by date shows a folder named for each year, and within each of these year folders is a folder for each of the months.
Please note that naming a month folder will not sort January to December since sorting is done alphabetically. A different option is to numerically name the month from 1 to 12. Please note that the first few months have a ‘0’ before the number to make them sort as expected.
Google Photos automatically creates the Year (2015) and Months (01 – 12) in the Google Photos folder in Google Drive so you do not have to.
Organizing by event simply means naming each folder for the event of the pictures.
This might be a vacation to Maui, a wedding or other trip.
Personally, I put the year of the event at the beginning to help me.
My wife and I use Dropbox.
Photos are synchronized into the Camera Upload folder under Dropbox.
My wife then creates folders and moves photos into them.
I must admit that I also use Google Photos in addition but my wife doesn’t look at them.
Looking at photos with File Explorer has some nice and useful features.
We look at photos as Large or Extra Large icons instead of looking them by Details which is not as pleasing.
Search for any file that ends in JPG or PNG
Move these files to a single folder Like Pictures
I’ve heard this question many times before and this might help.
How much room does a photo take?
Is my computer big enough to hold my photos?
Will I run out of space on my computer if I have a lot of photos?
This picture is 9.45 megabytes (MB) or 9,914,910 bytes.
105 of these pictures equals 1 gigabyte (GB)