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Organizing Images Anonymous
Hey guys, how do you organize your hi-res images?

I just saved everything in one folder since I first came to /hr/ years ago, and now I have over 9000 pics (9.446 to be exact, about 7GB, although some are probably low quality and /wg/ material)

What would you suggest to clean up this mess, /hr/?
>> Anonymous
First check for duplicates. VisiPics is good for this.
Then decide on categories. Make folders and sort.

I am not sure which image management software is good. ACDSee looks OK.

I am also wondering about image tagging. I have heard it mentioned but don't know much about it. Anyone have any ideas?
>> Anonymous
I'm gonna say basically the same thing as the other guy.

First, check for any duplicates. A good program for this is Pixels (by ByteSurge), or DupDetector.

Then, make a couple of general folders (3D, Photo, Handdrawn etc), then a bunch of subfolders in each (People, Animals, Landscapes), then more and more until it's down to only around 100ish images folder.

For the actual sorting process, get Pixort. It goes through a folder of images, and you just have to hit a number on your numpad to tell it which folder to sort each one. If you dedicated a weekend to this, you could probably get through all 9k this way.

As for tagging, I find that it's largely useless. It takes way more time than just sorting into categories, and is pretty difficult to search too. Even worse, there are very few programs that can tag an image, and most of those do it with their own db files - so if you upload a pic, it won't carry the tag info. Shit sucks.
>> Anonymous
>>419404
Thanks for the advice.
>>419393is me.

Something I think would be nice is using something like piclens to sort images, using throwing gestures or something. Maybe they'll add this one day. Bumptop may be able to do this.
>> Anonymous
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OP here, thanks for the help guys.
>> Anonymous
definitely for organising use ulead photo explorer
>> Anonymous
bump for good advice
>> Anonymous
while everyone is being helpful Im curious what image viewer you'd all recommend? I use IrfanView. But I don't like it's mouse controls in full screen mode.

But the bulk of image viewers have auto-resize, and no option to turn it off, which is annoying.
>> Anonymous
GQView is nice, and has a robust dup detector built in.
>> Anonymous
Standing at 99022 images, and 130.7Gb is taken up on my HDD.

Use a mixture of GQView and Dolphin (KDE file manager)
>> Anonymous
This is more about how to categorize than what program to use. I do art, so I have a lot of reference images. I organize folders by subject matter, regardless of resolution.

The best way, IMO, is to make big categories, like "people", "vehicles", "character designs" or whatever. Try to have just a few categories, like maybe a dozen or less. Base your categories on what you have the most of, not what you think the categories should be. Don't be too specific, you can always subdivide folders later.

Also, consider making a "sorting folder" for images that don't really fit into a category. If your top-level folder has one or two images in it, you probably were too specific.

You'll know your categories are good when you can almost instantly figure out what folder you should put a given image in, which is why you should be pretty general in the first place. In the end, it's about making your files easy to find.

It will take a while, but ultimately, it will save time.
>> Anonymous
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how about for OS X?