Re: [Leica] Organizing images

["mdelman" <mdelman@rochester.rr.com>]

You might try Thumbs Plus which provides thumbnail directories of your
photos. When you click on a folder or CD that contains photos.  However, it
won't automatically organize photos for you.

- -Mark
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Birkey" <dbirkey@uio.telconet.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 12:45 AM
Subject: [Leica] Organizing images


> Steve wrote:
>
> I have been saving my images (and data ) on CD-R 's that are beginning to
> pile up. What PC / windows program is optimal  to organize  photos from
> multiple CD's, on the PC  with a compact database of thumbnails?......
> I suspect this sort of  program must already  exist... if not (sheeeesh)
we
> need to get busy......thanks,
>
> *********************************
>
> I've been trapped behind my computer for the last couple of months
> organizing all of my digital images....  I had several hundred images with
> untitled as part of their filename on my two hard drives....  and several
> dozen CD's
>
> I'm using Extensis Portfolio and really like the way it works..... it's
not
> free, but quite often you get what you pay for.  It is fairly easy to add
> searchable keywords and you can customize views, catalogs and galleries
> etc...   You can rename files and move them easily as well.
>
> In my situation I often make CD's of images to send to various places
around
> the world.  I can put the browser software on the CD and set it up so the
> viewer clicks on an Icon and they can view and search through all images
on
> the CD.
>
> I can also give them a catalog of every image I have on file, but they can
> only view the thumbnails, if they click to view a larger image, it will
> prompt them to insert the CD the original file is located on.
>
> The biggest hurdle is organizing images is designing a filename system for
> your images to avoid duplicates... My system is a 3 letter subject code, a
4
> digit unique image code for that subject, followed by a single letter that

> refers to the pixel dimensions of the image.
>
> For example  ELS0025R  is an image of our English language service, it is
> image 25 and it is around 1200x1600 pixels... jpeg'd to around 1.3mb.
>
> ELS0025P is the same image as above, but is sized and compressed for a
Power
> Point presentation and runs around 120K...
>
> E-images are something that you have to be organized or you will be
reduced
> to tears in a short period of time if you have a lot of them.... and once
> you start shooting digital, it really gets insane.....   I know this from
> experience...
>
> Duane Birkey
> HCJB World Radio, Quito Ecuador
> Duane's Photographs of Ecuador:
> http://ecuadorphotos.tripod.com
>
>