organize my digital photos

but for now, I still have plenty of really bad, out of focus, icky photos to delete. Another 144 bit the dust tonight and I won’t miss a single one of them. It is good to begin to feel a sense of accomplishment for a long-standing goal. A good start to the new year.

More of those blurry, poorly lighted, awful photos are gone from my collection now. This really is the easy part. Flipping through the collection and realizing that I have 10 nearly identical photos of the Christmas tree from a couple of years ago…seriously, it is time to get rid of the digital clutter now that the actual clutter is gone.

I just went and deleted almost 200 of those really blurry, badly lighted, and awful photos that always get loaded along with the great ones. It only took me about 30 minutes and, so far, the decisions of which ones to keep and which ones to delete have been quite easy. I can do this! I will do this!

Okay, I have ignored this one long enough. I can do this. This is VERY achievable. I am thinking that for a few minutes each morning, or maybe a few minutes each evening, I can go through my photos and get rid of the duds (there are many) and the duplicates (also many) and that will be a start. Then, when I have gotten rid of the ones I don’t need, I will start the organizing and tagging and sorting. I think I will go do a few right now.

I started on this for a few hours this weekend. Started going through my photos and deleting the ones that aren’t worth keeping and tagging the ones that are. I only got a couple of hundred done but it is a start and I look forward to doing more. It is a nice, no pressure activity!

time and patience and perhaps a bit of study, since I really don’t know much about Photoshop. But I have started. According to Photoshop, I have 3029 photos in my catalog. Many of them are not worth keeping. Some of them are duplicates. All of them need to be organized. I started last night when I put together a collection to transfer to my new iPod. I love having some of my favorites with me all the time! Hmmm…maybe I should think about making this a challenge goal and have it done before we go to California this summer. We’ll see…