THIS IS A POST FROM 2011 I HAVE NO IDEA WHY IT HAS POPPED UP AGAIN.
I am smack bang in the middle of a 10 week online class with Stacy Julian (Big Picture Classes) called FINDING PHOTO FREEDOM
The first step in the process was to rate and purge a pile of printed photos then sort them by a 3 star rating system. All 2 & 3 star photos are then stored in binders. (All 1 star photos go into cold storage). So far I have only purged 2008 - June 2011 digital images and about 600 pre-1990 printed images. I have managed to toss/delete well over 13000 photos from my collection! I went from 7490 photos in the 2008 folder alone to 3743!!!
I have created a simple table chart in WORD where I can tick off each step in my digital workflow as I complete it (purge/rate/tag etc).
I set up tags way back in 2008 in Windows Photo Gallery (part of Vista) after reading Stacy's Photo Freedom book (now out of print). You can see some of my process here and here (btw if anyone has any of the plastic Homemaker boxes to sell I may be interested). I have changed the categories a wee bit after advice from Stacy and Coaches in the FPF class and have been busily tagging all 2009 - June 2011 digital images. There a many different programs available for keywording/tagging and organising photos eg PSE, Picasa, iPhoto, Lightroom, Bridge etc but I am sticking with WPGallery as it is simple to use, came free with Vista and all tags/ratings are held with each photo.
I am now going through the Category Drawers I set up back in 2008 to purge and rate those photos.
