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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
How do you organize your photos (digital and otherwise)
I've been on a quest for a particular set of pictures (a vacation from March 2006) and I had to go on a wild goose chase through about 5 different external HDs, jump drives, various CDs and DVDs, online photo sharing sites... it's awful! I want to get them all together, in one place, in some semblance of order... so, what do you guys do to organize your photos? I'm all ears. :-)
Re: How do you organize your photos (digital and otherwise)
I created a share site on shutterfly. You can set privacy to public, or to whoever you want. I have a public wedding one and a private family one. The share sites allow you to download the pics if you want.
I back them up on external HDs at home as well, but it's a piece of mind when I upload them to the site. I also print out large batches at a time (ie vacation pics) and put them in albums.
I have all my photos organized in iPhoto
If they're photos I want to share, I put them on my Shutterfly Share site
I have all of them on one external drive. They are organized by event or person. For example, one folder for each of our dogs, one for pics of DH, one for vacations (which subfolders for each individual trip), one for weddings (w/subfolders for each wedding), etc.
The folder w/DD's pics has a bunch of subfolders in it because I liked to keep each month separated to see how she grows. She has a 2008 subfolder w/each month split out in it, a 2009 folder, etc.
Ditto
On my computer it organize by date my folder structure is like:
Pictures>2009>09 September>0901 Kittens
All digital images are stored that way, the really old scans will end up in that struture, or similar, I just have to do a little more work to figure out where they really belong in terms of dates.
Then I use the keywords in LR to cross reference by subject, rating etc and edit of course. It also lets me use meta data to find files (camera, lens, aperture ISO etc)
Then I back up all the images onto a network hard drive, following the same structure.