GoVaughn.com Insurance has been taking digital photographs of homes and businesses that we have insured since 1996. Our photo collection has become quite large. We had one of the first digital camera produced the Cannon Elph.
We use several different methods for cataloging our images but still with all the pictures that are being taken today it can be a daunting task.
Personally I have been using for a long time a program called ThumbsPlus. I like this program because it gives me a quick an easy way to manipulate photographs and organize them. Cerious Software Inc is a small company I have been using various versions of this software since April of 1999. Since they are small sometimes support can be difficult. However most of the features and problems with the software I have been able to fix using their online help.
One of the biggest issues that I have with organizing photographs how should you organize folders and directories? Do you file photos by date, location, people in photograph or what.
One software that seems to be helping with this is Google Picasa. The coolest feature I think they have is facial recognition. How many times have you gone looking for a picture with someone in it and couldn’t find it. This software searches your photographs and makes a list of all faces. Once you give a particular face a name it searches and matches all like faces with that name. If you have issues with privacy of Google you might try another service that is doing a similar thing Fotobounce.com.
What are some tips you have for organizing the ever growing collection of digital photographs that we are accumulating?
I use Picasa for my photography business. Facial recognition is very cool. I did a facial search for a little baby i shot a few weeks ago. It pulled up all of her shots as well as the ones I took of her brother when he was 6 months old! Nobody could blame the milkman for her!!