Questions tagged [curation]
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What's a good strategy for choosing which photos to keep?
Each time I upgrade my camera, the bigger file sizes (especially shooting RAW), my bigger memory cards and happier trigger finger mean that my new photos are consuming way more space.
I even have a ...
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What software is focused on reviewing and organizing images?
If I wanted to just view, sort, and organize (via tags or folders or both), what programs are geared toward doing this quickly?
I know I could do this in most any photo editor, but it's not ideal for ...
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How can I better organise and file my photos?
At present I meticulously add metadata as EXIF tags to my photos using Microsoft Pro Photo Tools, which also lets me place them accurately on a map. The thing is I tend to leave photos in a folder ...
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What storage solutions are there for working with large volumes of digital photo data?
I'm dating a professional photographer that has been accumulating digital images at an alarming rate (thousands of high-res images per month).
Does anyone have any recommendations of external and/or ...
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How many photos should I keep?
When I started with digital photography, I used to keep a copy of ALL the photos I took on a backup drive, "just in case". As the years have gone by, I have become more ruthless, permanently deleting ...
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How do you select the 10 best images from a set of 300? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What's a good strategy for choosing which photos to keep?
I have read that photographers are rarely the best editors of their own images. As digital cameras make it so ...
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I've 'lost' a photo. I know I have it but I don't know where — how can I find it?
A friend has requested a full-res copy of a photo I posted on Facebook a few years ago. Back then I just had a point and shoot, I didn't organize my photos well, and since I have started organizing ...
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How do I identify the object of a picture I've taken?
Sometimes I have a picture which I don't know, or which I have taken a long time ago. So how do you identify unknown stuff on your image?
For example I saw this picture, and what is the best approach ...
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Methods (mechanics) to select a set of pictures from large amounts
When I return form a trip, I typically bring 3000 - 5000 shots per week. For showing them to friends and family, that is obviously too much, so I need to reduce the count down to something like 100 - ...