It is very common to have hundreds and thousands of digital photos, in the same way their scattered management is common as well. If you also have the same problem and you are still very unhappy because of your unorganized photos, do not worry it is never late. Let’s start with a new photo management technique that can help you to organize photos like any professional photographer do. There are many photo management tips that you can apply to your photos and make them completely managed and organized.

Need of Organizing Photos:

It is very easy to manage photos in your new digital camera or mobile phone. You may take lots of images at a single time for a perfect pose and can delete some of them if you do not like. However, when the collection of your perfect photos grows with time, it becomes very difficult for you to manage all the albums and it results in unorganized photos. If your photos are properly managed, you will never miss them and easily find them even if they are very old and also you can upload them online easily without searching.

Let us Discuss Some Of The Most Effective ways to Manage Your Photos:

Transfer Photos Into Computer

The first step to organize your photos is to copy them to your computer from digital camera or mobile device. Initially you have to check that whether the photos have proper naming or tags and ratings. In  next step delete all the junk photos, it will not only clean your photo collection but also save your memory disk. It would be difficult for you but after that, you will feel easier to manage your images.

When you name your image collection, it follows the same trend for all of them so that it will be easy for you to differentiate them. Name them according to exact event and if you store them according to date it would be easier for you in future to find them. Always follow the standard format while naming the images according to its extension file format. When you start naming folders the always name them according to general category such as people, events, vacation, holidays, sports, seasons, months, and years. It is always better to name the photos at the time of import.

When it comes to Smartphones then photo management becomes trickier. It is better to tag every photo, so that you do not have to organize every photo by date. Always make sure that you do not save junk photos in your Smartphone and your entire collection must be very specific according to your priority. Remember that all of your photos are organized according to date.

Import Photos:

There are many applications available in your computer, whether it is Windows or Mac that keeps your photos organized. If you do not edit your photos much, then only a simple program can manage your photos. Some of them are:

iPhoto

iPhoto is a Mac based application that is to manage photo file. It is an inbuilt application of Apple notebook; it is a part of the Apple iLife suite. It includes with iMovie and GarageBand. This application is available for all iOS devices to manage, edit and sync photos to the desktop application.

Microsoft Windows Photo Gallery

This is an inbuilt program in Microsoft Windows that allows users to import and organize their photos automatically. It includes many features with it that can help the user to make their images perfect such as crop, red-eye reduction,  retouch, straighten, color balance, exposure, etc. the users just have to use the buttons and they can use all the features easily.

Users can also upload their photos on social sites with the help of Windows Photo Gallery, such as Facebook, YouTube, etc., as there are many plug-ins available.  It also allows captions, descriptive tags, flags, geo-tags, ratings, and many more. Microsoft also provides features integration with the Microsoft Sky Drive for Windows users.

Picasa

Picasa is purchased by Google in 2004 and they offer this application for free. Picasa a compatible with both windows and Mac operating systems so it is the best app for those users who use both of the operating systems as it integrates features with iPhoto on OSX. It includes all of the features of a photo gallery and allows users to create and manage an album.

Back Up Photos

To take backup of your images is the most prominent feature to save them from unprecedented data loss. Backing up photos in a hard drive can never be a proper security as it can corrupt any time. The best way to save an image is to store them in a place where you can access them even if you do not have your hard drive.

Some of Backup Applications Are:

iCloud

This is available for iOS users and allow storing automatically saved and retrieved data across the device or through the web browser. The user can turn on the iCloud storage for photos in his device and enable the option to automatically upload new photos to My Photo Stream. Then all the photos will store in My Photo Stream within a certain limit provided by the company.

Google Drive

Both iOS and Android users can use Google Drive to take automatic backup of their photos. Here users get 15 GB free space to sync his all files for mobile apps and the desktop application. IOS uses have to manually upload their photos but Android users can have options to upload their photos automatically on the Google drive.