thaaanks alot !! i was really stressed out abt dis! i have SO MANY pictures all dumped in one folder 😅 and its filling up reaaaalli fast! thanx to you i shall organize it the way u suggested 👍👍
very simple --- very helpful... now to organize my 100 thousand photos from years gone by... (its an understatement of how many I need to go through) ugh, but finally a way to straighten out my mess.... :) thanks
Just want to add that with the shake reduction filter, I have been able to make many old photos clear that were blurry from movement. If the picture was blurry from being out of focus this will not work. But don't discard all blurry old photos until you have tried the shake reduction filter in Photoshop CC.
Great tip!!! It is so helpful to organize the photos from my camera over the years!! My question is, what about the non-event daily shots if I wanna archive them on a backup drive? There is no specific event. Thanks!!
Yah I have been struggling with this too. I have been creating a folder each month called 2017-03 Individuals for example and been putting all the random individual shots in that folder. Hopefully this helps :D
This is a great system and I appreciate how simple it is. I however have a different problem. I have a photo project that doesn't make sense to organize by time. It's a multi-year project that all focuses on one city. I tried to organize into folders by subject of the photo, but what happens when you have multiple subjects, for example a portrait in front of an iconic building. Do I put it in the portrait folder or the iconic building folder, or do I make a duplicate of the photo and have it in both?
I have a similar challenge with my Photography portfolio, as each year I have 100's to 1,000's of photos that get added to it. Sometimes one photo would be appropriate from multiple portfolio uses and once you have a multitude of those situations it becomes very complex to organize. I'm thinking that while this is different from your situation the challenge is the same. For this I use a Lightroom library dedicated to my portfolio and then I use smart collections and keywords to tag photos to be auto added to multiple collections. So in your case I would recommend adding the photos by date to a main folder. For example FOLDER (Project Name) > FOLDER (2020-06-10 City Photos). Then add all those folders of photos to a Lightroom Library, and then create keywords for the project that represent the groups you want to classify each photo into. Hope that helps :)
Currently this is something I'm struggling with as I don't have a solution that I think works well. I used to keep them in the same structure just in a different folder, but that got really messy (with imports, edits and sharing to apple TVs etc). I currently have a separate digital video library and a folder for each date/event with all the video in that folder. Let me know if anyone else has a good system / suggestions as I would love to learn how to do this better.
Simple, yet excellent, but what about the photos that I have done post production work to? Those are the ones that tend to get scattered for me, because of sharing/uploading them and whatnot.
Thanks! I'm really glad you enjoyed the video. I guess it depends on how you edit your photos. I personally use Lightroom and I do any additional post-production in Photoshop. In this case, Lightroom automatically creates a new PSD file with the same name and appends it with the word -Edit in the same folder. It also groups and imports it to Lightroom and groups it with the original. For any software that works externally like onOne or SnapSeed, I edit the photo and then save the finished image as a JPEG or TIFF. Then I add it back to the main folder and manually append it with -Edit and then re-import it to Lightroom and then group the photos together. When I’m dealing with exports of my edits to Facebook, my blog, to vendors, people I photograph or print labs I have an additional file structure that I work with and I’m currently working on an entire course on this for photographers. Hopefully, this helps answer your question. Cheers Jeremy
Thanks for the fast reply! I also use Photoshop and Lightroom. I've decided to make two sub folders within a specific folder. ex. "2017-04-02 Nephews Bday" once inside the folder, I have a "RAW" and "Processed" subfolder. I will experiment around with these methods and see how it goes, as well as what you mentioned, thanks again!
You address the creation of folders, but you also need to address the renaming of the photo file. My approach is to have the file name format as [Topic] [Sequence] Description [(exif)] date-taken Topic is an optional field and allows the collection of common photos Sequence is an optional field that keeps photos in the order that I want Description is of the contents of the photo - note that even though the file name is limited to 256 characters, if burning to a CD/DVD is may be limited to 64 characters (exif) allows me to add additional information of the contents in the exif metadata for RAW, TIFF, & JPEG file, useful when taking a photo of a group of people and I want to list the names of everyone in the photo date-taken lets me know the date that the photo was taken, I show in YYYYMMDD format, if month or day is unknown then I enter those values as "00". All of this is important when searching the files to see what is on what file and is used in conjunction to establishing a good folder system.
Renaming files would be a headache if you're trying to consolidate files from different drives, clouds, computers when you're trying to find duplicates... and THEN organize files into a folder structure, and THEN trying to weed out duplicates to delete them, after files have been renamed. YIKES! It would be like doing the work multiple times.
+JM Photography *(TRANSLATED BY GOOGLE)* Great video. Super efficient organization method! How do you rename when you do not know the correct date or approximate date of an old photo, for example? Do you also use tags (metadata)?
I usually just pick a date based on my Calendar, my best fit guesstimation. As for really old photos I just use the year and approximate month and then append with a number code. For example 1999-04_001 as I find there were so many less photos during this time that it is unlikely to have over 100 or 1000 photos taken in one month. Hopefully this helps and thanks for checking out our video :)
Jackie Rose I find it easiest to start by going back to the beginning of last month or the beginning of this year. Practice with those photos first and then keep all your photos you take organized to. Then work backwards in time year by year as you have time. Meaning once you have 2015 organized, then work on 2014, then 2013 and so on. I find this helps make it a little more manageable. :)
So, I would like to also organize by people and be able to search my name. Like I would like to see all the photos with my daughter in them, Is that possible?
Yah it totally is. I prefer to do this within the software that I'm using to view the photos as opposed to within the file structure itself. It can be done in most of the major software is used to view photos. For example like Photos for Mac, Aperture [which is now been discontinued], iPhoto [which was replaced by Photos for mac], or Lightroom. From these applications I'll add keyword tags to any photos I want to be able to easily search later on. You can take people using the face recognition options that some of the software is offer however I prefer keyword tags as they enable me to search the photo outside of the application as well. Hopefully this helps 😃
I sure do. I use a program called better rename 9. It's awesome and I use the following structure. YYMMDD_001 Description (Location)-MMMDD_YYYY so it looks something like this 160609_001 Family Reunion (Banff Springs Hotel)-Jun9_2016. This structure provides all I need in terms of being able to organize photos from multiple days in the same folder. To being able to see all the essential info about the photo without opening the image.
JM Photography Nice!! Thanks a lot! So the first date is the start date of the event and the second one is the actual day? Like 160609_001 Family Reunion (Banff Springs Hotel)-Jun9_2016 160609_008 Family Reunion (Banff Springs Hotel)-Jun10_2016 160609_045 Family Reunion (Banff Springs Hotel)-Jun17_2016 Right?
Marco Milone no the first and last date are exactly the same. The first one is a date code to organize everything in the correct order alphanumerically and the second date is nearly there for ease of reading. I like having The second one there but it's not really necessary.
how do u propose to organize pics when there are pics taken from multiple cameras? when I go on trips with friends or family, we end up taking photos from different cameras and share them. how do I organize these?
So this one is a little more complicated as it requires so preparation. If the camera’s are photographing different events throughout the day, just add in folders like you would for a multi day event or complex single day event. That’s the easy one :) If they are photographing the same event then I use a folder with the event folder for each camera to download to. Then I use a renaming program to merge the photos together using their EXIF time data, the software i use is called A Better Finder Rename 10. Above I mentioned preparation, in order to do this efficiently you need to sync the time on all your camera’s. If that wasn’t done or was done incorrectly I use A Better Finder Attributes 6 to correct for out of sync time codes. Hopefully this helps :) Happy sorting!
Priyanka Prithviraj Both pieces of software are free for the first 30 days and then there is a cost for it however the cost is quite reasonable as I believe it's only $15 for a license.
In line with your advice in this video, I think you would find great help in using Picular picular.com that in a more automatic and modern way will help you get your photos organized.
A good method of the past. Now, this is outdated as it requires a lot of time to organize locally with too many devices we possess. Syncing all to cloud is the best time saving option nowadays .
Since what you are doing is nothing to do with music, songs or dancing can you please concentrate on what you're doing or saying rather than on the high music. Thank you.
Thanks man. All tutorials should be like this-short, simple, right on point, and without stupid 20 seconds intros.
+Dufffaaa93 Thanks I appreciate it :)
I usually watch at 2x the speed and skip the intros. ...ain't nobody got time for that!
Are you being sarcastic?
I love people who make it simple as it is! Thanks JM! Much appreciated!
Frederico Gattás so glad you enjoyed the video 😃
I knew I was gonna do something like this, but I needed the validation from an expert and now for sure I'm gonna do it. Thanks!
I wish my brain worked like this! My life would be so much easier. I appreciate you taking the time to do this for unorganized people like me!
You are so welcome!
omg so easy and quick thank you
Very neat and organized way and doesn't need a special software for it. Thank you!
Such a great tutorial! Thanks JM, it's so easy to get cluttered, and this is a perfect way to avoid that :)
Andrew Cooney Thanks I'm really glad it was able to help :)
Comprehensive and super helpful! Very professional look and clear narration, thank you so much! :-)
Thanks Julie! glad you enjoyed our video :)
thaaanks alot !! i was really stressed out abt dis! i have SO MANY pictures all dumped in one folder 😅 and its filling up reaaaalli fast! thanx to you i shall organize it the way u suggested 👍👍
+Tazeen Firdous I wish you all the best organizing your photos :D Glad the video could help.
very simple --- very helpful... now to organize my 100 thousand photos from years gone by... (its an understatement of how many I need to go through) ugh, but finally a way to straighten out my mess.... :) thanks
You are very welcome, glad you enjoyed our video :)
Great video & folder structure, thanks!
Thanks and happy organizing :)
Short & sweet.
Thanks :)
Thank you so much
You're welcome :)
Nailed it man, straight to the point
Thanks I'm really glad you liked the video :)
Thank you! This is so helpful!
Thanks, I'm glad it helped :)
Thanks! A good way to start to organise my mess ;)
You're welcome, I'm glad it helped! Happy organizing.
Just want to add that with the shake reduction filter, I have been able to make many old photos clear that were blurry from movement. If the picture was blurry from being out of focus this will not work. But don't discard all blurry old photos until you have tried the shake reduction filter in Photoshop CC.
thx... also to easily manage and organize files neatly, google for FolderChanger
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Super helpful! Thanks.
Thanks Taylor :)
Excellent video!
Thanks 😃
Thanks this is awesome
You're welcome :)
underrated video and channel
Thanks :)
Great tip!!! It is so helpful to organize the photos from my camera over the years!!
My question is, what about the non-event daily shots if I wanna archive them on a backup drive? There is no specific event. Thanks!!
Yah I have been struggling with this too. I have been creating a folder each month called 2017-03 Individuals for example and been putting all the random individual shots in that folder. Hopefully this helps :D
@@JMPhotographyCalgary Sounds like a great solution! Thank you!!
the best idea thank you
Thanks Khalid :)
This is a great system and I appreciate how simple it is. I however have a different problem. I have a photo project that doesn't make sense to organize by time. It's a multi-year project that all focuses on one city. I tried to organize into folders by subject of the photo, but what happens when you have multiple subjects, for example a portrait in front of an iconic building. Do I put it in the portrait folder or the iconic building folder, or do I make a duplicate of the photo and have it in both?
I have a similar challenge with my Photography portfolio, as each year I have 100's to 1,000's of photos that get added to it. Sometimes one photo would be appropriate from multiple portfolio uses and once you have a multitude of those situations it becomes very complex to organize. I'm thinking that while this is different from your situation the challenge is the same. For this I use a Lightroom library dedicated to my portfolio and then I use smart collections and keywords to tag photos to be auto added to multiple collections. So in your case I would recommend adding the photos by date to a main folder. For example FOLDER (Project Name) > FOLDER (2020-06-10 City Photos). Then add all those folders of photos to a Lightroom Library, and then create keywords for the project that represent the groups you want to classify each photo into. Hope that helps :)
Thanks for the tips!
Your welcome :D
good
Thanks
What about videos? Do you put it in the same directory?
Currently this is something I'm struggling with as I don't have a solution that I think works well. I used to keep them in the same structure just in a different folder, but that got really messy (with imports, edits and sharing to apple TVs etc). I currently have a separate digital video library and a folder for each date/event with all the video in that folder. Let me know if anyone else has a good system / suggestions as I would love to learn how to do this better.
Simple, yet excellent, but what about the photos that I have done post production work to? Those are the ones that tend to get scattered for me, because of sharing/uploading them and whatnot.
Thanks! I'm really glad you enjoyed the video. I guess it depends on how you edit your photos. I personally use Lightroom and I do any additional post-production in Photoshop. In this case, Lightroom automatically creates a new PSD file with the same name and appends it with the word -Edit in the same folder. It also groups and imports it to Lightroom and groups it with the original. For any software that works externally like onOne or SnapSeed, I edit the photo and then save the finished image as a JPEG or TIFF. Then I add it back to the main folder and manually append it with -Edit and then re-import it to Lightroom and then group the photos together. When I’m dealing with exports of my edits to Facebook, my blog, to vendors, people I photograph or print labs I have an additional file structure that I work with and I’m currently working on an entire course on this for photographers. Hopefully, this helps answer your question.
Cheers
Jeremy
Thanks for the fast reply! I also use Photoshop and Lightroom. I've decided to make two sub folders within a specific folder. ex. "2017-04-02 Nephews Bday" once inside the folder, I have a "RAW" and "Processed" subfolder. I will experiment around with these methods and see how it goes, as well as what you mentioned, thanks again!
You address the creation of folders, but you also need to address the renaming of the photo file. My approach is to have the file name format as [Topic] [Sequence] Description [(exif)] date-taken
Topic is an optional field and allows the collection of common photos
Sequence is an optional field that keeps photos in the order that I want
Description is of the contents of the photo - note that even though the file name is limited to 256 characters, if burning to a CD/DVD is may be limited to 64 characters
(exif) allows me to add additional information of the contents in the exif metadata for RAW, TIFF, & JPEG file, useful when taking a photo of a group of people and I want to list the names of everyone in the photo
date-taken lets me know the date that the photo was taken, I show in YYYYMMDD format, if month or day is unknown then I enter those values as "00".
All of this is important when searching the files to see what is on what file and is used in conjunction to establishing a good folder system.
This is great, thanks for adding in this additional info.
Renaming files would be a headache if you're trying to consolidate files from different drives, clouds, computers when you're trying to find duplicates... and THEN organize files into a folder structure, and THEN trying to weed out duplicates to delete them, after files have been renamed. YIKES! It would be like doing the work multiple times.
+JM Photography
*(TRANSLATED BY GOOGLE)*
Great video. Super efficient organization method!
How do you rename when you do not know the correct date or approximate date of an old photo, for example?
Do you also use tags (metadata)?
I usually just pick a date based on my Calendar, my best fit guesstimation. As for really old photos I just use the year and approximate month and then append with a number code. For example 1999-04_001 as I find there were so many less photos during this time that it is unlikely to have over 100 or 1000 photos taken in one month. Hopefully this helps and thanks for checking out our video :)
Great Video! Thank you,
Thanks I'm glad you enjoyed it :D
I have nine thousand pics and movies on my windows PC. And more in Picasa. I don't know where to start on how to get them organized.
Jackie Rose I find it easiest to start by going back to the beginning of last month or the beginning of this year. Practice with those photos first and then keep all your photos you take organized to. Then work backwards in time year by year as you have time. Meaning once you have 2015 organized, then work on 2014, then 2013 and so on. I find this helps make it a little more manageable. :)
So, I would like to also organize by people and be able to search my name. Like I would like to see all the photos with my daughter in them, Is that possible?
Yah it totally is. I prefer to do this within the software that I'm using to view the photos as opposed to within the file structure itself. It can be done in most of the major software is used to view photos. For example like Photos for Mac, Aperture [which is now been discontinued], iPhoto [which was replaced by Photos for mac], or Lightroom. From these applications I'll add keyword tags to any photos I want to be able to easily search later on. You can take people using the face recognition options that some of the software is offer however I prefer keyword tags as they enable me to search the photo outside of the application as well. Hopefully this helps 😃
Great video!! Do you have any tips for file renaming too?
I sure do. I use a program called better rename 9. It's awesome and I use the following structure. YYMMDD_001 Description (Location)-MMMDD_YYYY so it looks something like this 160609_001 Family Reunion (Banff Springs Hotel)-Jun9_2016. This structure provides all I need in terms of being able to organize photos from multiple days in the same folder. To being able to see all the essential info about the photo without opening the image.
JM Photography Nice!! Thanks a lot!
So the first date is the start date of the event and the second one is the actual day?
Like
160609_001 Family Reunion (Banff Springs Hotel)-Jun9_2016
160609_008 Family Reunion (Banff Springs Hotel)-Jun10_2016
160609_045 Family Reunion (Banff Springs Hotel)-Jun17_2016
Right?
Marco Milone no the first and last date are exactly the same. The first one is a date code to organize everything in the correct order alphanumerically and the second date is nearly there for ease of reading. I like having The second one there but it's not really necessary.
JM Photography Thanks!
how do u propose to organize pics when there are pics taken from multiple cameras? when I go on trips with friends or family, we end up taking photos from different cameras and share them. how do I organize these?
So this one is a little more complicated as it requires so preparation. If the camera’s are photographing different events throughout the day, just add in folders like you would for a multi day event or complex single day event. That’s the easy one :) If they are photographing the same event then I use a folder with the event folder for each camera to download to. Then I use a renaming program to merge the photos together using their EXIF time data, the software i use is called A Better Finder Rename 10. Above I mentioned preparation, in order to do this efficiently you need to sync the time on all your camera’s. If that wasn’t done or was done incorrectly I use A Better Finder Attributes 6 to correct for out of sync time codes. Hopefully this helps :) Happy sorting!
This is very helpful. Thanks so much. Are the software's free or are they a paid version?
Priyanka Prithviraj Both pieces of software are free for the first 30 days and then there is a cost for it however the cost is quite reasonable as I believe it's only $15 for a license.
Awesome! thanks for all the help. I hope at least this year I can have all my photos organized.
Thank you. Do you rename the actual photo files with in the event folder?
Yes we rename all our image files
@@JMPhotographyCalgary How you rename them ?
good instruction to carry out task but music was a bit loud to hear clearly
Thanks Ron Singh for the feedback regarding the music we will keep that in mind for our future videos :)
In line with your advice in this video, I think you would find great help in using Picular picular.com that in a more automatic and modern way will help you get your photos organized.
A good method of the past. Now, this is outdated as it requires a lot of time to organize locally with too many devices we possess. Syncing all to cloud is the best time saving option nowadays .
Helpful - apart from the really, annoying, pointless, irritating background music. Please - just the info.
Yes I have worked on improving that in my newer videos :)
Since what you are doing is nothing to do with music, songs or dancing can you please concentrate on what you're doing or saying rather than on the high music. Thank you.
Yes I have worked on improving that in my newer videos :)