It's Photo time!
There are two parts to this week's organization, digital and physical photos. Last year, I did well to get my physical photos organized. I use your basic photo box. I have one for negatives, one for my trans-Atlantic cruise, and one for all the photos that I have printed. Most of these, are DH's older photos from the pre-digital, pre-me age.
I am more concerned about all the digital photos that I have never had printed. I don't even have all of them stored on my laptop, because it would fill it up. Which brings me to the first, and most important task to do this week. If you do nothing, but this, you should feel proud.
BACK UP YOUR PHOTOS!!!
I have not lost any yet, but I thought I did, and that was enough to make me cry. Recent photos, I have: Copy on Laptop, copy on external HD, copy on old Desktop that is used only for scanning things and photo backup. I also should have a copy on CD/DVD, but I have been lazy in making those backups. I will work on them this week.
My primary project this week, is whipping the digital organization into shape. It had been awhile since I opened Picasa. The newer updates have made it extremely easy to tag photos with keywords. They also have a photo recognition tool, so it will identify faces and tag them with a name. This is what I started doing yesterday. So far, it is so so. It misses some people, and then you have to go add them manually. It seems like it doesn't recognize a person if they are holding something in front of their mouth, like food. The other big problem, is in Disney pictures it pulls out lots of faces, so I spend a lot of time telling it to ignore faces.
But it is going fast enough, that yesterday, I was able to get through all the 2009 pictures. Which included 2 Disney trips. I can do it while watching TV, and today is a big TV day. I hope that tagging my pics will help me with the organization so that when I pull out my swap items to use, I can do a quick check of how many photos I have for that event. I did this with the Gingerbread House at the Grand Floridian, and it seems to be doing good so far.
Here's the Wookiemouse link:
http://wookiemouse.blogspot.com/2009/06/organize-your-stuff-challenge-week-6.html
And remember:
BACK UP YOUR PHOTOS!!!