Hi Jack,
I think the toughest are the photos that show more than one point of
interest. Say a picture shows how the convertible top mounts to the wheel
well, but it also shows the door latch. Lets say you want to put that in
folder "TOP". If you right click on the photo, choose properties, summaries.
Under comments you can add "door latch" You can do a Windows search for
latch and that photo will come up. If you have XP, try the preview function.
Right click a file choose "preview". There are scroll buttons to see the
next photo in a folder. I can usually scan an entire folder full screen in
the time it takes Photoshop to open and load the first picture. Now with
everyone's suggestions, it'll take you a week to decide which ones you're
going to use. ;~)
Greg
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Friends,
I've been collecting pictures of BJ8's in all stages of demolition and
(re)construction in order to have guidelines when I start assembling the
car. (I didn't take it apart myself, bought it in approx. 10,000
pieces). I installed an old stand-alone PC in my garage with the idea of
calling up a picture of a detail as soon as I hesitate. I'm afraid I
have some 300 to 400 pictures now and I try to organize them one way or
another so that I don't spend valuable hours trying to find that
specific picture of which I'm sure I've seen it before somewhere but where?
Hence this request: I hope I'm not the only one who tries/tried to
streamline his picture collection but how have you done it? At present
I've started grouping the pictures in accordance with their location:
Engine room, Wheels/suspension, Underside, Dashboard, Boot , Chassis,
Interior and their names now start with the capital E, or W, or U etc.
But sometimes this still creates too large groups. Any better ideas out
there?
TIA
Jack Aeckerlin, The Netherlands
1964 BJ8 29432
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