|
|
|
 Organizing Photos
Kris Butler,
ACD Systems
Is your collection too big to find photos fast simply by browsing
thumbnails? Want to find those special photos in your big collection
faster than ever before, without spending ages meticulously organizing all
your photos with unique file names, descriptions and a well-thought-out
folder structure? Who doesn't, right? Find out how you can with ACDSee
5.0.
One of the core benefits of an image management program like ACDSee is
that you can browse thumbnails extremely fast to get a quick look at your
collection and find the particular pictures you are looking for. But as
fast as thumbnail browsing can be, once you have more than a few hundred
photos, finding that special one you're thinking of can become a chore.
This is especially the case if, like many of us, you haven't taken the
time to build a logical folder structure, rename all your images and add
unique descriptions that can be searched on later.
While ACDSee still provides the ability to do all those things, it now
includes a much faster way of organizing your photos called "Categories."
This function lets you create categories for filing photos that make sense
to you and that you can easily browse. You can then assign multiple images
at a time to various categories without creating duplicates as you would
if you created new folders and copied images from other folders into them.
Also, unlike the Favorites function, which allows you to create folders
filled with shortcuts to images, thus avoiding creating duplicates,
Categories lets you see the contents of more than one category at a time.
Being able to assign multiple photos to multiple categories and then
browse more than one category at a time, all without creating duplicates
can lead to serious savings in both time and disk space for anyone with a
moderate to large collection. And, if you're snap happy with your digital
camera like we are, you know that the volume of photos can pile up really
fast.
Copyright 2005 ACD Systems Ltd. All
rights reserved. Article used under license by Ipswitch, Inc.
[_includes/bottom_nav.htm]
|
|
|
|
