It's been on my To-Do list forever now. I know will organize it by events, but I also have a lot of other photos that aren;t really events just a single random photo. I don;t really have it organized right now, but it would be interesting to see how everyone else does it.
Looking for better ways to organize my photo library, how do you organize yours?![]()
I use Aperture 3 instead.It is a tool really designed for professionals, but even as an enthusiast consumer... I am loving it.
The only reason I am mentioning this is for those of you who feel the need to do much more than is possible with iPhoto... Aperture 3 is really a spectacular application! It is reason enough to switch from a PC to a Mac.
/Jim
This. It was annoying when they introduced Events because Events groups my photos completely at random. Then when I got a new computer and imported three different past iphoto libraries into the one iphoto it imported multiple copies of each photo, thumbnails of each photo, removed date/time information from many photos, the Faces feature creating additional photos of just faces in my library (??) for even more useless redundancy (as if having four copies of everything wasn't enough, now i have four copies of everyone's face from every photo) and now my iphoto library is effed. Photos from the last ten years, I'm going to have to spend days putting things back in some kind of order. I'm thinking of starting over in aperture simply because iphoto is such a mess of crap features I'm afraid it's going to collapse in on itself and create a photo singularity that would be even more difficult to reorganize than it is now.My photo library is a total mess. With the tons of photos, if you didn't organize them when you first imported them, this thing just gets unmanageable.![]()
This. It was annoying when they introduced Events because Events groups my photos completely at random. Then when I got a new computer and imported three different past iphoto libraries into the one iphoto it imported multiple copies of each photo, thumbnails of each photo, removed date/time information from many photos, the Faces feature creating additional photos of just faces in my library (??) for even more useless redundancy (as if having four copies of everything wasn't enough, now i have four copies of everyone's face from every photo) and now my iphoto library is effed. Photos from the last ten years, I'm going to have to spend days putting things back in some kind of order. I'm thinking of starting over in aperture simply because iphoto is such a mess of crap features I'm afraid it's going to collapse in on itself and create a photo singularity that would be even more difficult to reorganize than it is now.
Yeah. But when it comes to organizing tens of thousands of photos that way I get kind ofExactly. I refer back to my other post. Create folders in pictures for all your photos and if you want to view in iPhoto drag and drop the folders into Events.
Yeah. But when it comes to organizing tens of thousands of photos that way I get kind ofand tend to find something else to do. At this point my digital photo collection is located firmly in the Procrastinate/Avoid section of my brain just cuz its so fxr'd partly thanks to iphoto's cleverness.
Thanks Jim, you have just inspired me even more to change to the Mac. I have been reading reviews of Aperture 3 and drooling. I have 25000 photos that need sorting on my PC. CBA on that machine. Gonna get an imac 27" for my photo work next week.