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Ah well I will start with "My name is Faye and I hoard photos! Possibly 10 000 images, I love looking at them but I think I need help. (Um that is just at home, you should see what is on my desktop) I am beginning to recognise that I may have a problem and with the year coming to an end, think it is a good idea to start the new year off on a good note".
I have used Picasa, but read that Google has the right to the images, is there omething better.
There is possibly someone out there that has a really good system for storing and naming images, and I am asking for a bit of help, I am even tempted to pay someone to do it for me. But as Joel said, they may get rid of things that are important to me, Aaagh!

We use Picasa at work, and given the confidential nature of all of iur images, I really doubt they own the right to them, maybe only if they are published to the web using picasa

Mine are all on this laptop in dated folders. Thanks for the reminder Faye, its time to back them up to the portable HD and spare comp in the family room

Right click on the open folder and sort by date. Then throw them into folders by year. Thats as far as I usually get.

Apple has the best photo organiser I have ever seen. iPhoto.

Remarkable program.

I use adobe. Not cheap but you can tag every photo andview on tags. Alsodoes more editing than you would everwant. Has a great backup function which i use to backup tousbdrive and leave at my dads in case of a fire.

Also smart enough that if you load off your camera it wil recognise all your previous phots and only load new ones.

Thanks everyone! Badger when you say not cheap, what are we talking, roughly?

Couple of hundred i think but there maybe different levels.

Got mine ages ago.

here I organise my photo by years

eg

2009
2010
2011
then under each of those folders I have folders with dates, as follows
2009_01_15
2009_01_18
2009_01_19
2009_02_15
etc etc

All the pics from that day go into that folder.. if something special happened that day I will add on after the date what it was.. never been one to name the actual images.

There is a program called Fileboss that makes sorting folders/files a bit easier.

Gimp is a freeware version of adobe products and it looks like it supports using a program called DBGallery http://www.grrsystems.com/what-dbgallery

I used to organize a bunch of pics for work long ago and would have killed for something like this. I use to do it all manually using shortcuts linking the pic from its storage folder to a shortcut in different places it would be relevant for searching. (pia)

It has been a long time I needed to do more with pics as now I just upload stuff for ebay sales mainly to a site like tinypic but gimp and a organizing system might be the way to go.

Adobe photoshop elements is the application Faye

Not an organizer but a “File Rename Utility”, one of the best free aps that helps greatly.

A lot of digital cameras have a few different options for how the pics are automatically named. Most default to an endless count, but there is often a date and time naming convention.

If you use the international date format

2011-12-18

you can sort all your photo's by date even if they are in a single folder.

if the date is in any other order, the list will be messed up.

My camera (an inexpensive cannon) also has the option to save within a new folder every day, week, month, or year.

I take an average of 20 pics a day for my blog even though I might only use one or two, so I have the same problem

The other thing I recommend, even though I dont do it myself, is to delete anything not worth keeping as you dump the pics from your camera. I would guess .01% of my pics are something I might want to print, 10 % are worth keeping, and the rest should go into the bin.

The best thing about digital photography is it costs nothing so you can take stacks of photos and pick and choose which ones to keep. The worst thing about it is when we dont