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As it's a tedious and less rewarding job, I tend to do this starting with the new stuff so that at least I'm not creating a larger pile every year. I've run into the exact same dilemma as you many times and this approach seems to help.Īnd, as far as tags go, my approach is to shoot (more, at least) in the spring, summer, fall, and tag in the winter. I've got a smart collection for every year that does this, so I can immediately look at that smart collection and quickly find the best shots from a particular year.

These are then automatically added to a smart collection within Lightroom that looks for anything with a rating of 4 or 5 stars. Then go through and add a star rating to the passable shots. Once that's done, filter it to show just the flagged shots.

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Lately at least, what I've been doing is any time I download a batch of shots into Lightroom, I immediately go through them and flag any 'passable' shots. Tags, flags, collections, and stars may be great for the person who assigns them, but a simple folder labeled 'Family Photos 2008' that's filled with JPEGs rather than RAW files is about as simple as it gets. If you are archiving photos for family members, it's also a good idea to make it as easy as possible for them to find things as well. What I've learned from the accompanying comments (thanks to all for your contributions, by the way) is that the more ways you have to find the images that are special to you and the easier it is to apply them, the better.

Gordon replies: As obvious as that might sound after the fact, when one is faced with the prospect of assigning multiple tags to more than 50 different images and having limited time to do it, it often doesn't get done. Toto: 'I'm curious as to why you don't use more than one tag.' ( To see all the comments, click on the 'Comments' link below.) Links in this post may be to our affiliates sales through affiliate links may benefit this site. Original contents copyright 2017 by Michael C. I’m open to suggestions, or even simple commiseration. This may not be the best way, but it works for me until a better approach comes along. Even if there are eventually 500 photos in this folder it’s still a lot easier to browse through than one that contains 60 times as many photos. The solution I’ve come up with is this: I immediately export a JPEG version of my “keepers” to a separate folder labeled as such. If I have trouble finding a photo it’s almost aways because I either didn’t tag the photo at all, I accidentally gave it the wrong tag, or the tag I used is less obvious to me now than it seemed then.

Unfortunately, I’m much too clever a fool for that to work. It also wouldn’t hurt to have a more foolproof way of tagging my photos. Had I simply tagged it ' street,' it would have been one of over 500. At present, this tag is unique in my catalog, so I found it instantly. I went for the obvious tag with this one: Jesus.

Clearly I need to edit this number down to a more manageable size, but that’s a story for another day. Now maybe you have 29,000 top-quality photos on your hard drive, but I don’t I’m just not that good. That doesn’t even count my pre-digital catalog of negs, prints, and slides. No doubt a large part of the problem is that I have over 29,000 photos in my Lightroom catalog. I have a crystal-clear picture in my mind of what it looks like I just can’t remember exactly where I filed it or how I tagged it.

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All I have to do is search for the tag in Adobe Lightroom, my cataloging and raw processing software of choice, and every photo with that tag will show up as a collection.Īnd yet, from time to time, I still can’t find a specific photo I’m looking for. So, for example, a folder might be labeled 04072016_New Orleans if that’s the day I uploaded the photos and most of the photos inside are from a trip to New Orleans. Every monthly folder has a folder labeled with the month, day, year, and a memorable main event. Every yearly folder has a sub-folder for every month, such as 01_2017, 02_2017, 03_2017 and so on. Practically all of my digital and digitized photos dating back to 2000 are in master folders, one folder per year. Instead I tagged it 'Mom's birthday.' It took almost an hour to find browsing folder-by-folder.Īs photographers go, I’d say I’m pretty well organized. Had I tagged it 'Maya,' I would have found it instantly. I shot this photo of my niece Maya at a family get-together eight years ago.