Sorting & Organising Photo Collection

[The-Calli-Kid]

Fellas. Can anyone point me towards some information on sorting and organising my progression Photos accumulated over the past 4 years?
What format works best for naming etc, etc. Also, I remember reading about an archive type program some time ago but cant seem to find info again??

Thanks
CK

[kcpoole]

I have a strict directory Structure I Use and name all my photos with the EXIF "date" data from the camera
The format of the photo files is JPG from the camera, and I have a script that will extract the Date from the data already attached to the image by the camera, and then renname the files with that data. It will do individual files or a completed directory

The format I use is
4 digit year-2 digit month-2 digit day_image number eg 2009-09-05_img0015.JPG

this way when you look a t a directory full of photos, the directory name tells you what the tree is, and the files are by default listed oldest first so progressions show up easily.

eg
Azalea
Tree number 1
Tree Number 2
Bougainvillea
Tree number 1
Foto1
Foto 2
Tree Number 2

I use Linux but you could use the similar tools to do the same on Windows or MAC os
Google for "extract EXIF data" and you will find what you need to get you started, jhead is the software to extract the EXIF data

Code: Select all

#!/bin/sh
#This script Renames ALL the files in the directory using jhead
# Install Jhead before using this script. sudo apt-get install jhead

for i in *; do jhead -n%Y-%m-%d_%f $i; done

Ken