I don't need to dig out the old vcr etc.Īs for the old home videos, I made the concious decision about 5 years ago to transfer all of them to digital for exactly the reasons you outlined. The other nice thing about digital is that all it takes is a codec to read something. Proprietary mail storage files are not really comparable. And the best thing about digitised photos is the don't degrade like the physical versions. Jpeg has been the standard for years now, I doubt very much that it will become inaccessible anytime soon. We now have 13 of these books and we will start on 2014 shortly. It's a lot of work, sifting through the images, editing and cropping them and then finally putting them together in a 40-60 page book. We actually print them using a company that makes coffee book style books. What we do is put together a highlights book for each year. Another chunk are essentially duplicates where I have taken 20 photos to capture a moment. I have just over 60gb of digital photos now. It was only 110 years ago but I found the differences incredible and much more relatable in photo form then in a book. Most of them were of random life, and even though I didn't know who the people were it was a fascinating insight into how they lived.
#PHOTO GALLERY TRANSFER TAGS TO DIGIKAM FULL#
One of the best finds I ever had from my great grandparents was a suitcase full of old photos taken around the turn of the century. But don't trash the rest! Storage is cheap so there is no reason you shouldn't keep everything.
If you want to create a best of album to pass on to your kids then by all mean to that. The problem is that while initially they may seem awesome and great time savers, you will ultimately want to group the photos based on social, aesthetic and political assessments, and no automatic system can ever handle that. Be very wary of *any* automated system based on a database or tagging system.
#PHOTO GALLERY TRANSFER TAGS TO DIGIKAM SOFTWARE#
I don't bother with links or any other garbage, 50-500MB of duplication doesn't matter a damn, and the backup software has de-duplication so doesn't care either.įinally, I've done this for almost 15 years and it's basically worked perfectly for me and I have a fantastic collection of photos going all the way back. I may also do a low-res copy of that folder (and call it "web pick") and then I can email them easily to friends. I make a folder called "pick" and put them in there. If I have a folder of photos and want to make a small sub-selection. If I go on a big trip then what I do is create sub folders with the date (using the same format) for each event or grouping or experience that I captured. This allows me to have multiple groups of images on a given day, say a lunchtime function and a dinner party.įor groups that span multiple days I do this: This post may give me away to some of my friends, but I create folders using this template: I second this vote for using the file system to organise your images.
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