May 17
While playing with iPhoto the other day I realized that I have a lot of garbage clogging up my digital memories, making it hard to find the pictures that I really want to see. A quick check shows that I have 19,403 pictures sitting on my computer!! Uh yeah, that makes it a little hard to find the exact one that I’m looking for, so I think its time to cut down the stack.
Now I’m just trying to figure out what the best way is…
- Should I outright delete the pictures I don’t want?
- Should I save the ones I don’t want just in case?
- Should I just use iPhoto’s feature to hide certain photos?
I’m really torn between my options right now… I’m thinking that #3 is probably the safest, but #1 would clean things up big time.
The next project will be geotagging all my photos… I’ve downloaded a mac app called Geotagger that will supposedly do the trick along side google earth, but I’ve yet to try it out.
May 17th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Geotagging with Geotagger and Google Maps is really easy, just time-consuming. Make sure to get the crosshairs to help you pinpoint the location: http://craig.stanton.net.nz/software/files/crosshairs.kmz
As for cleaning up your library, I’d recommend that you get iPhoto Library Manager (http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/). It lets you split up your photos into multiple libraries. I keep mine separated by year. I’ve got about 15k photos on my machine, but with IPLM, iPhoto only has to deal with a few thousand at time, max.
May 17th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Thanks for pointing out that crosshairs thing. Thats definitely going to make it easier to know exactly where I’m geotagging a photo.
I’ll check out the library manager here in a bit.
On a side note, I read somewhere that if you geotag a photo after its been imported to iPhoto, you can’t get iPhoto to recheck the file and grab its coordinates… is there any way around this?