How To Automatically Organize Your Digital Photos

Consider this. More time is dedicated to keeping our closets, kitchen and garages organized than is spent putting our treasured photos in order. Not likely Visualize how upsetting it would be to lose your unique snapshots, never to be recovered or reproduced. Perhaps your husband accidentally tosses out those boxes of vintage family photos that are "just gathering dust in the attic" or your wedding photos are damaged beyond repair when a pipe bursts in the basement. You get the picture (so to speak).

Photo organization goes beyond preserving and accessing hard copy photos. There are the hundreds, if not thousands, of digital photos filling your camera's SD card, or dumped in a nondescript folder on your computer's hard drive. Where they can be found on your computer is anybody's guess.

Of course, none of us wants to lose our valued photos, yet we continue to put off this essential organizational task. If you are like me, you can always come up with excuses, which usually revolve around a lack of time, effort and interest to name a few.

It is high time we promote this rather mundane, yet important organizational task to its proper position of high priority on the "to do" list and get that photographic diary in order.

This would include scanning and organizing those photos from the shoebox in the closet, as well as capturing those photos from old albums that mom and dad used to meticulously manage the family's valued photographic memories. One of the benefits of living in the age of technology is that there are multiple photo software solutions to help make the task less burdensome. There is one, fairly new to the market that enables nearly effortless order to photo disarray.

Fotobounce is a free photo organization software application that you download from the Web. This photo assistant offers features to help make photo organizing and sharing simple. Although it is simple to use, it is undoubtedly a powerful organizational tool. Once installed, the software will search for and organize photos based on people it finds in those photos. This is intentional since most photos are comprised of people.

The cool part is that people in the photos are found via advanced face detection and recognition technology. As faces are detected, you are asked to identify and tag those people. This is accomplished by "training" the software to recognize a face by initially "putting a name to a face," and then letting the application continue finding other faces that look similar. These are displayed as suggestions. As you confirm or reject its suggestions, it further refines its ability to identify a particular person.

Organizing by people makes sense to me, as I find that I am often searching for specific photos of a person or group of people. Like many people, I have thousands of photos on my computer and add nearly a thousand more each year. Inevitably, I find myself spending valuable hours searching through photos to find a handful of specific ones. These may include photos of a friend for a birthday slide show, or perhaps I'm having a couple over for dinner this weekend and I want to show photos of our last trip to New York City on my digital photo frame. By using Fotobounce to tag my photos, I am able to find the photos I need quickly, making it more enjoyable to share photos with family and friends. Don't be surprised if, you find as I have, that it is as necessary to your photo organization as your shoe organizer is to your Jimmy Choo shoes!

Using Fotobounce for photo organization puts you in control of your photo album, enabling you to keep your photo "closet" tidy; however, I'll share these thoughts in a future article.

By: Laxman Samtani

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Laxman Samtani is an internet entrepreuner base in Toronto, Canada. To learn more about Photo Organization go to his website www.fotobounce.com