![]() There are two approaches to making this process more enjoyable.ġ) Buy a very fast computer (generally an iMac or iMac Pro), with enough fast SSD storage to contain this growing library, and plenty of RAM memory. It is so much harder when this time is spent in frustration with a slow computer, or worse, one that keeps crashing when a large library is open. It takes a lot of work to keep very large libraries organized. They can also restore damaged photos.Īfter your photographs are scanned, I can help you organize them in PHOTOS. It is important to note that these services can scan odd-sized mementos like newspapers, certificates, and diplomas as well. It can be a slow process, sorting through albums and loose photographs, and organizing them for scanning. I use two companies for such purposes: Memories Renewed, and DigMyPics. I have decided it is even harder to risk those treasured memories to fire (or other natural disaster). It is hard to send off your shoe boxes of old photographs to a company that will scan them for you. I also merge any other libraries that I find along the way. I scour all your computers, external drives, and other media for loose images and video files, and include them in the library. It often makes more sense to do this with you until you get the hang of doing it yourself.Īt other times, I am asked to consolidate many iPhoto and PHOTOS libraries into one all-inclusive super-library. I can do all this for you, but with a large library, this can be a very time-consuming project. Sometimes most of their media is in iPhoto or PHOTOS, and they want me to train them to create folders and albums, delete duplicates, and generally make sense of their collection of images and videos. My clients often ask me to help them organize their photos. WORKING WITH PHOTOS (organizing your collection of images & videos) But when we think of libraries, photos usually means images and videos, and videos take up a lot more space than photos. My clients mostly talk about how many photos they have. There must also be plenty of free space to deal with a large library. Your Mac must be fast enough and have enough memory to keep up with the size of your library. ![]() One PHOTOS library can theoretically contain a million or more images/videos. By default, we also put a copy of the photo or video inside the library as well. When we add (or import) media, we are storing information about that media in the library structure. PHOTOS keeps track of the images and videos we put into it. That database is stored in a container called a library. PHOTOS, like iPhoto before it, is basically an organizational database of all the media we add to it. By the time PHOTOS came out, iPhoto began crumbling under the weight of the massive amounts of digital photos and videos we were beginning to create. PHOTOS retained most of the features of iPhoto, with the exception of the frustrating and somewhat unpredictable iPhoto Events. PHOTOS (I am going to capitalize the word PHOTOS when it applies to the application.)ġ3 years later, after many improvements to iPhoto, Apple phased it out and replaced it with a program called PHOTOS. Just as writing became an arguably better and easier process with word processing programs, dealing with photos finally came of age when our computers got visual photo organizational tools. I could make them bigger, zoom into area and see the detail, or even perform basic editing functions like cropping. And if I did organize them, I could look at groups of them. Even if I didn't organize them into albums, I could look at them. Dealing with photos became a visual process.
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