I use keyword and description tags in the photo’s metadata to put the species identification, any supplementary location info, and also tags to indicate what sites I’ve uploaded that photo to. Picasa used to have a really great feature that would automatically keep your online and local photos synced, but that doesn’t work anymore since Google ditched it. I also export my edited photos to upload them to Google Photos as an additional but much less comprehensive and synced backup. I use SyncBack to backup to an external hard drive. If I tried to keep the filename up to date with the species name or moved files around at later dates it would mess up my backup procedure and I’d end up with tons of duplicates. I just leave the filenames as the default and never change them. My photos are downloaded from the camera to the computer into year folders with a subfolder for each day in the yyyy-mm-dd format. I use it for downloading from the camera, basic edits and crops, tagging, searching, browsing, and exporting temporary cropped copies to upload to sites like iNat. I’m still using Picasa since I haven’t found anything I like as well yet. I change it once in one place in Lightroom, save all photos with any changed tags (smart folder) in one action, and all my photos are automatically updated. For example, I do not have to manually rename potentially hundreds of files when a genus or species changes name. Any typos or changes in geographic or taxonomic tags can be fixed in all my photos with the tag at once in Lightroom. With this method for 10000s of wildlife photos, I don’t manually name or rename any files. I like that filenames stay stable and tags change when identifications are updated.
I can then search for taxa and localities/regions of any rank easily in my OS’s file explorer or with Lightroom. Then Lightroom automatically tags all higher-ranked taxa above the one I tagged, and higher-ranked geographical regions (county, state, country, continent) containing the locality I tagged. For a photo of one creature, I manually tag only a taxon as the ID and a locality name, just two tags. The taxonomy hierarchy contains both common names and scientific names so that manually tagging one auto-tags the other. Photo tags: I use Lightroom with keyword hierarchies set up for geography and taxonomy. When my camera image counter flips from 9999 to 0001, the files sorted by filename still sort by date taken.
#Backing up picasa 3.9 database free#
A free app called Bulk Rename Utility makes this easy. Folders with this date format sorted by folder name naturally sort by date.įilenames: I prepend a YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS timestamp of date taken in the local time zone to each file originally named by my camera like IMG_3952.CR2, resulting in a filename like -14-35-36_IMG_3952.CR2. If you’ve got some programming skills, I can thoroughly recommend this as a long-term hobby project.įolders: Date and location, e.g., Patuxent Ponds Park. It started off quite simple, but I’ve gradually added more and more features, so I can now do almost everything I want through a single interface (editing, annotating, taxon searches, uploading, etc). It’s only a few megabytes, but when I consider how much time I’ve invested in maintaining it, that database is probably now worth more to me than the majority of my entire photo collection…Īs to the programs I use: I wasn’t able to find anything that did everything I wanted, so I wrote my own. It also means I can back it up separately (and regularly).
This makes searches and updates super-fast, and it’s very easy to re-organise the information whenever I need to. So I now keep all the extra information in a separate database. When I first started, I used the photo metadata to add extra information like geodata, locality, taxon, etc - but I soon found that performing complex searches or large updates could become very slow.
All my photos are organised by year, month-day, and time - for example 2019/06-25/11.53.28.000.jpg.
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