How to Organize Your Digital Photos

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For example, if I had a tag called ‘Uncle Joe’ attached to 30 pictures in my hard drive (regardless of their filename, which folders they were in or when they were taken), all I need to do is to search forrepparttar tag ‘Uncle Joe; in Photoshop Album. The program will automatically locate and retrieve those 30 pictures for my viewing pleasure.

OK, back to Photoshop Album. If you have existing tags, you can attach them to your photos by dragging and dropping them on individual photos. You can tell that a photo has been tagged if there is a small icon shown inrepparttar 116000 photo’s thumbnail.

If you don’t have an existing tag, you can create a new one choosingrepparttar 116001 Tag > New Tag option fromrepparttar 116002 menu. You’re allowed to specifyrepparttar 116003 category ofrepparttar 116004 tag (e.g. People, Places, Events) and can enterrepparttar 116005 actual tag keyword, along with a note for describingrepparttar 116006 tag. Step 4: Move Your Photos to Appropriate Folders Once you’ve tagged all your photos in Photoshop Album, it doesn’t matter where they reside inrepparttar 116007 computer’s hard drive. If you’ve just imported a new batch of photos, you can proceed to now move your digital photos to whichever folders you want. For me, I’d first rename any new photos in my ‘Unsorted Photos’ folder, then proceed to move them intorepparttar 116008 ‘Raw Photos’ folder.

Step 5: Edit Your Photos If Necessary You can perform basic image edits like rotation within Photoshop Album itself. Basic image editing functions like rotation, cropping and red-eye removal are readily available atrepparttar 116009 click of a button.

Step 6: Backup All Your Photos Regularly Within Photoshop Album, there is a function to regularly backup your entire photo catalog. All database information (in particular, tag information) will be backed up as well. You will want to get a CD burner, DVD burner or even an external hard drive to cater for this purpose. Conclusion Takingrepparttar 116010 time to organize and clean up you digital photo collection is a worthwhile investment. By tagging your photos properly, you’ll be able to retrieve images in a snap. No more sifting through folders and image files to locate that specific photo. Tryrepparttar 116011 above organization tips out and I’m sure your digital photo experience will be that much more rewarding. Good luck and have a great time organizing!

Gary Hendricks runs a hobby site at www.basic-digital-photography.com. Read his tips on digital photography and learn to shoot better photos with your digicam.


Top 10 Advanced Digital Cameras

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Sony Cybershot Pro DSC-V3 The Sony Cybershot Pro DSC-V3 is a decent advanced camera which is light and easy to use. With its 7.2 megapixel resolution and 4x optical zoom, it’s a great buy. Do noterepparttar colors can be a bit poor in some shots.

Canon EOS-1D Mark II The Canon EOS-1D Mark II is a new digital SLR aimed at professional photographers who want excellent customization options, great photo quality and impressive speed. This 8 megapixel camera is high on my list of recommendations.

Olympus C-8080 With its 8 megapixels and a 5x optical zoom,repparttar 115999 Olympus C-8080 represents great value for those hunting for a digital SLR. While it doesn’t sell as well asrepparttar 116000 Canon and Nikon SLRs, I think Olympus comes up with pretty decent advanced cameras too.

Konica Minolta DiMAGE A2 The Konica Minolta DiMAGE A2 is a hot favorite amongst professionals. From a feature and function point of view, it’s one ofrepparttar 116001 best digital SLRs I’ve seen. However,repparttar 116002 build quality lacks that nice and heavy SLR feel.

Sony DSC-F828 Featuring a whopping 8 megapixel image resolution,repparttar 116003 Sony DSC-F828 comes replete with a powerful 7X zoom lens and great camera optics. Very nice camera indeed.

Conclusion There are lot of cameras suitable forrepparttar 116004 advanced digital photographer, butrepparttar 116005 list above covers some of my favorites. I particularly likerepparttar 116006 Nikon D70 and Minolta DiIMAGE A2. One shopping tip to remember is thatrepparttar 116007 camera above tend to be more expensive thanrepparttar 116008 average point-and-shoot model. So do consider carefully whether you need to features before buyingrepparttar 116009 camera. If you're just starting out in digital photography, you may want to try a simpler and cheaper model first.

Gary Hendricks runs a hobby site at www.basic-digital-photography.com. Read his tips on digital photography and learn to shoot better photos with your digicam.


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