The document provides a step-by-step guide for organizing and sharing digital photos. It recommends renaming photos with relevant and descriptive names, creating a folder system with categories and subcategories to separate photos by content, and using free photo organization software like Picasa to further organize photos into albums. Picasa allows tagging photos with keywords, editing photos in batches, and sharing photos online through Google's Picasa Web Albums or other sites like Flickr. The final steps are to back up organized photos for protection.

1. Organizing and Sharing Your Digital Photos

2. Last week…

3. This week…

4. Maybe this is you…

5. Got pictures?

6. Got LOTS of pictures?

7. Got a cluttered desktop?

11. Can you find images easily this way? No!

14. Gather all your images together.

15. You did digitize them. Right?

16. Step 1: Rename Your Images

18. DSC000023.jpg 2007-Xmas-Tree.jpg Turns out to be a photo of the Christmas tree from 2007 Rename to…

19. 2007-Xmas-Tree.jpg Relevant and Descriptive of the image contents

20. Also searchable 2007-Xmas-Tree.jpg

21. “ That’s great, but I’ve got TONS of images!”

22. Step 2: Create a Folder System

23. Create a root folder for all your images Use the “My Pictures” folder Or create your own like “_pics”

24. Separate your images into categories by content

25. Create Folder Trees

26. Create Folder Trees Vacations Separate by category Holidays Pet Pics

27. Create Folder Trees Holidays Easter Thanksgiving Christmas Further separate into sub categories Separate by category

28. Create Folder Trees Holidays Easter Thanksgiving Christmas 2005 2006 2007 Keep separating until there is a reasonable amount of images left Further separate into sub categories Separate by category

29. Mystery Pictures ? Misc images

30. Develop your Digital Images? To be developed

31. Now your organized But wait… It gets easier

32. Step # 3: Using Image Organization Software

33. Windows Explorer Does the job, but not very well

34. IrfanView Free copycat of Explorer

35. XnView Free and slightly more capable

36. Creative Memories Memory Manager Much Better but costs $40

37. Picasa This free tool by Google is amazing

38. Picasa Overview

39. Picasa searches for every image * on your computer. * and also video

40. Any folder with images will show up in Picasa Create albums Star your favorite photos

41. Edit Options

42. Batch Edit

44. Tagging (Keywords) Christmas 2007 tree

46. Picasa compliments your folder trees and naming system.

47. It does NOT replace it

48. Step # 4: Share Your Photos

49. Picasa Sharing Options

50. Create a “Gift CD” or DVD Can play on any computer But can only play on DVD players that read data disks

57. Picasa Web Albums Google’s online image hosting and sharing Site Free with Google account

60. Now your photos are online

61. Alert others your photos are online

62. Geo-tagging (map your photos)

63. Uploaded photos icon

64. video… flick r

65. Last Step: Now that your organized: Back up your images!!!

66. Ways to back up images - Upload online - Burn to CD/DVD - Copy to external drive

67. Questions