How to Organize your Digital Photos

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19 thoughts on “How to Organize your Digital Photos

  1. Hi Jeremy, I have to say I really enjoyed your video. I’ve taken a similar
    approach as you have, exporting all my photos from iPhoto to a manual
    folder structure on my external HD. In regards to the YYYY-MM-DD dating
    format, how would you organize pictures that were taken in different time
    zones? For example, I have photos I took in Japan, but the EXIF original
    date & time of those photos are read in the eastern standard time zone.
    What would you recommend doing in this situation?

  2. Was going to ask the same question. The way I have it is Year -> Month ->
    Day/Event. Those one or two images just go into the month folder. The
    problem however is if an event is long, like a Holiday for example, and
    spans from one month to another, you either have to have it in one month or
    the other, unless you’re willing to split it. I think I might switch to
    Year -> Month/Day/Event… and those single pictures will just got into a
    “generic” month folder named after a month(January, etc…).

  3. Hey latitudehopper, I totally agree that it’s not enough for a folder so I
    either combine the stragglers into a folder, or I just make them a part of
    the year folder and name them with the folder naming convention (i.e.)
    2011-09-26 Example.jpg hope this helps 🙂 Cheers Jeremy

  4. Hi Jeremy Thanks for your video. I noticed on this remake that you no
    longer suggest renaming the actual photos themselves as you did in the
    first video. Have you changed your process since the time you made the
    original video? I have not been in the practice of doing this last step but
    am questioning whether I should and wondering what your current thoughts
    are on this.

  5. That file structure looks like this 001 Description (Location) Jan1_2013.
    The new one that I have been testing is as follows 130101_001 Description
    (Location) Jan1_2013. It’s a little long but it really helps if you were to
    say create a photo book and needed to organize say your favourite photos
    from 2013. Like I said I’m just testing it and once I figure it out I’ll
    either write a blog about it of post a video. Thanks for subscribing to my
    channel 🙂 Cheers Jeremy

  6. Hey Pam, I still rename all my photos 🙂 I just omitted it from this video
    as that was the least watch portion of my first video and I decided to only
    focus on the file structure for this video. I’m currently working on a
    video about my naming convention however I’m stuck between two methods.
    First one (my previous method) looks cleaner but is only good when all the
    files from an event are kept together and are never mixed with photos from
    other dates.

  7. Yeah, that’s what I actually ending up doing instead. It’s tedious work,
    but having the correct original date & time really helps out with
    organization and archiving. Thanks for your help!

  8. Grain adds depth and detail, it’s much more attractive to have a bit of
    grain than have none. That overly digital look is bland and weird in mu
    opinion.

  9. Great video ! VSCO film is fantastic, sadly i can’t afford it for now. In
    my country it will cost me RM370!

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