How To Effectively Organize Your Photos

We’re all messy in some way or another, and when it comes to taking photos, you have to keep things sorted out. Otherwise, you’ll find yourself trapped in an infinite loop of never-before-seen pictures!
If you’re a photographer, or someone who’s planning to become one, taking more than 1,000 photos a day is inevitable! So I have created this post to help you out. And if you follow these 4 easy steps, your photos will be as organized as bees in a bee hive.

Step One: Get Yourself A Photo Management Program

The Finder in Mac and the File Explorer in Windows both help a little when you’re organizing your photos, but if you have a whole bunch of them, it’s going to be really hard to find what you’re looking for when you need it. I recommend installing Adobe Bridge, which works for both Mac and Windows! But the iPhoto in Mac will do just fine.
What you do here is pretty simple; first you connect your camera to your laptop or computer, then on the screen a little box will pop up asking you if you would like to import photos, import them using Adobe Bridge or iPhoto.

Step Two: Put Everything in A Folder

After you’ve imported your photos, always create a new main album/ folder and label it by either the date, the event, or anything significant that will help you remember the folder contents. In that main album you have to make two different folders with the names RAW and Edited. Now for those of you who are new to photography, RAW is the original unedited photograph. After editing the selected photos save them in the edited folder.

Step Three: Tag Your Photos

Tagging your photos cannot be done by the regular explorer or the Finder, which is why you have to bring a specialized photo management program like Adobe Bridge and iPhoto. In these applications you’ll be able to multi-tag your photos by model name, event, place, and time. Once you’ve finished with all that tagging, you’ll be able to locate all your photos in an instant.

Step Four: BACK THEM UP!

After you’ve organized and tagged your photos, it’s always wise to back them up. Either save them on a hard drive or burn them on to CD’s or whatever makes you comfortable. This is a very necessary step, and should not be ignored or skipped!

Conclusion

In conclusion, doing all 4 steps will make it easier for you to manage all of your pictures. And that alone will save you a great deal of time and effort. Therefore getting a great photo management application, saving everything in separate folders, tagging, and backing everything up, are all necessary tools to organize and manage your photos in an efficient manner.