Photo Organization Archives - My Scattered Brain All In One Place Thu, 20 Aug 2020 08:34:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 Photo Organization – Removing Duplicates https://myscatteredbrain.com/2020/08/19/photo-organization-removing-duplicates/ Wed, 19 Aug 2020 19:28:30 +0000 http://myscatteredbrain.com/?p=228 Here are tools to help with de-duplication of photos.  I found this in a Facebook group and saved it here for future reference. Highlights: DupeGuru a free cross-platform deduplication app for initial heavy lifting of dedupe efforts. Lightroom Classic with Teekesselchen, a free cross-platform plugin for second pass. Photosweeper for Apple Photos. Tips on How to Deal with Photos That Are Very Similar But Slightly Different It's all about the eyes.  If the eyes aren't in focus, delete immediately Keep the first one and get rid of the rest At the start of the emotion - When Ashley and I were going through Big Sur photos, this one stood out.  There was a photo of Nicole and Savanna, one when they were starting to laugh and another where they were in full on laughter.  Ashley picked the first one, when the emotion was first triggered. Go quickly from one photo to another and back and follow the first response each picture awoke.  Go with overall impression.  If you go into the details, there's always something in the photo that is worthwhile. Group: Advice from the Photo Organizing Pros https://www.facebook.com/groups/thephotoorganizers/permalink/2585836638394281/

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]]> 228 Apps for Photo Organization https://myscatteredbrain.com/2020/08/17/apps-for-photo-organization-2/ Mon, 17 Aug 2020 17:13:42 +0000 http://myscatteredbrain.com/?p=206 These are the primary apps I've considered or tried for photo organization.  More detail is available below. Adobe Bridge* Adobe LightRoom Adobe Elements Mac Photos* Google Photos* Dropbox* Forever * Products I currently use Mac Photos I use iCloud Photos which syncs photos across my phone and MacBook. Then I use the Photos app on Mac to do the first round of curation. I use the Favorites feature a lot so it’s easier to curate in Photos rather than having to find the favorites again in another organization app. Round 1: I put albums by Year/By Month and separate Personal from other stuff SmartAlbum criteria: By month Not in an Album Round 2: I use another SmartAlbum to find all photos for each week Mon-Sun. I find my Top 7, drop in an album and then put all the Top 7 in an Album for the year. Then I export these photos onto an SD Card and put in the digital photo album. SmartAlbum Criteria Top 7 by Week Top 7 All by Year - These I save to an SD card and put in a digital photo frame Dropbox I use Dropbox Camera Uploads to get the full files out of Photos. Otherwise, if you export from Photos, the file creation date is the current date Once in Dropbox, I use Adobe Bridge (previously Adobe tried Elements) to separate personal photos from Other Stuff and Real Estate Stuff and file them by year. Dropbox is used to hold the master files because it is the raw file and not exported where the creation date gets changed. Google Photos I let Google Photos backup the Dropbox Photos folder by year. Google Photos is just a failsafe. Other apps and notes I've considered and ruled out Forever - doesn't support Mac Adobe Elements - I’ve tried multiple version of Adobe Elements and it is insanely slow. If you turn off auto face recognition, it speeds it up significantly. However, so far, I found Adobe Bridge to be faster. It could be because I didn’t have a large number of photos in my initial test set, but it still seemed to be blazing fast. I don't like working on photos in the cloud.  This rules out Google Photos and Forever.  Forever has a standalone app but is not supported on Mac. Another reason I don't like working on photos in the cloud is because of needing to export the photos when you download them locally.  The creation date of the file is the current date not the date the photo is created, so when you sort via your computer's file system, it is all out of order. Summary Photos on iPhone/Mac – These are my working photos where I curate and organize the photos. Dropbox for storing the raw files.  Adobe Bridge to curate the raw files when they are downloaded onto the computer and separate personal, real estate and other stuff Google Photos – Final backup of photos for Just in Case Info For My Family When I die, my family should be able to access photos here: Dropbox Photos Folder SD Card in digital frame for my favorites Photo by Vitaly Sacred on Unsplash

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