There are thousands of photos backed up here on this external harddrive. All neatly sorted into dated, named folders. There are so many good ones lost in the pile of crap (possibly 1000 crap to 1 decent one). I would like to produce a "best of best" folder. Previously I've gone through hundreds at a time and put xx at the start of the filename, then searched for xx afterwards, then copied to a "best of 2008 etc" folder. Its a bit dull doing htat, but it works. Is there a better program on windows 7?
Is there some good better software out there or has anyone any good suggestions? I've noticed there is something on the laptop that lets you rate/tag the photos.
The ideally program would allow me to get the family around the laptop (perhaps plug it into the tv) and we'd view them all one by one on a slideshow (over a series of weeks/months an hour at a time). It would be great if we could all shout out a number between 0 and 9 and I'd just press that number on the keypad and then on to the next picture and the picture would be rated 0 to 9. We'd the decide which to keep. I'd tag up the best and look after them.
Thanks for looking.
I intend to do best of best folder, then make sure these are backed up more rigourously and printed out or put on the screen saver on the pc.
p.s. binning them all isn't an option (before someone says it)
Thanks for looking.
You can add tags to image files (and music and videos too) and search on the tags. And add ratings too.
Sounds like you need to be able to make playlists but for photos. No idea if you can do that.
Windows live photo Gallery does what you want I think. But Picasa would too!
Tags, you can use Windows Photo Gallery (in Vista) or something from Adobe (Elements?).
Adobe Lightroom has an excellent filing and filtering system. Could be a task to sort all your old stuff, although it will be with any program, but it'd make current and future work incomparably simply. It's also excellent for digital development.
I'm just starting to use lightroom, looks really good for this type of thing.
I'm just starting to use lightroom, looks really good for this type of thing. It's very different to other Adobe products (and that's a good thing IMHO :-))
Agree Lightroom would do the job but may be a bit pricey for the OP if they aren't going to go further into digital processing.
Yeah, that's a good point. Lightroom is not cheap, although if your eligible for educational discounts the cost is c.£80
Picassa from google is pretty good and free. It won't do the number rating thing but you can organise into collections and "star" your favourite photos.