What are some effective ways to manage a large number of photos?

Everyone uses pictures in different ways and manages them in different ways. As a photography enthusiast, I use pictures to manage pictures mainly in the following aspects: first, storage. Second, classification. Third, editing. Fourth, search? In order to manage these pictures better, I chose a software package for myself. BR is used to manage pictures, PS is used to edit pictures, and AI is used to print out.

The first aspect: the storage of pictures, two aspects, one is the storage location, and the other is the storage habit.

First, the storage location, if there are not many photos, you can store them on the computer hard disk, if there are too many, you must find a mobile hard disk dedicated to storing pictures. That's what I did. My notebook uses a 256G solid state drive, which can ensure my reading speed and portability. Then there is a separate 1T mobile hard disk to store pictures. This has two advantages. First, managing pictures with BR makes it easier to find the location of the pictures. Second, the security and privacy of the picture can be guaranteed when the picture is not processed at ordinary times.

Second, the habit of storage. Having good storage habits will make it easier for you to find pictures in the future. Good habits mainly mean: 1, and pictures are stored in a separate folder. Take the photos taken today for example, and create a folder named 20171211-xxxx? The date is in the front, and the shooting behavior is briefly introduced later. In this way, when you look for this group of pictures in the future, you can search by name if you can't remember the time, or by time if you can't remember the name. And it is easy to find. 2, try to simplify the storage, which means that anyone who presses the shutter twice at the same time will keep the one with good effect. The other involves deleting the original file.

The second aspect: the classification of pictures, classification is very important, good classification will make your future index more effective.

First, the level establishes its own star standard. When you get a set of pictures, you will roughly classify them. Some of them are very good and worth keeping. You can save the original document and mark it with five stars. If the effect is average, but it has certain reservation significance, you can mark it with four stars without saving the original file.

Second, label and mark the pictures. These are easy to do with BR. Generally speaking, if you tag each picture carefully, it is very easy to search by using the name of the place and the name. Then, it will be very convenient for you to index in the future.

The third aspect: picture editing, there is only one thing to say about picture editing, that is, when editing pictures, you must remember to edit the backup of the original picture, not the original picture. Keep the original pictures at any time, and delete the temporary files during processing.

The fourth aspect: search. If you have formed your own strict habit when you saved it before, then the search will be easy. What we want here is only the skills to deal with software, so we won't explain it here.