Digital File Gathering Methods: A Comparison
- Meg Macintyre
- Solutions
The method you use when gathering digital photos and videos from your clients Sources can have a significant impact on the outcome of your digital organizing project. Expert-level digital organizing requires that all photos and videos are gathered from all your clients’ Sources while preserving folder structure. This article compares four solutions and methods commonly used by Professional Photo Organizers and Photo Managers. It also includes a method
Comparison: Searching for Identical Duplicates with PhotoSweeper and Duplicate Cleaner Pro
- Meg Macintyre
- Solutions
This article compares the Scan Settings or Scan Criteria for identifying Identical Duplicates and examines how the available settings/criteria affect which photos are displayed in scan results.
PhotoSweeper is the most feature-rich duplicate removal application for Mac. For PC users, Duplicate Cleaner Pro is the most powerful. While these two applications perform the same task, there are significant differences in how they work.
Although he biggest difference between
PhotoSweeper is the most feature-rich duplicate removal application for Mac. For PC users, Duplicate Cleaner Pro is the most powerful. While these two applications perform the same task, there are significant differences in how they work.
Although he biggest difference between
Undated Photos Part 2: Identifying Undated Photos
- Meg Macintyre
- Metadata, Solutions
How do you identify Undated photos in your clients' digital photo and video collections? If you've read the article "Undated Photos Part 1 - The Unseen Menace", you know there may be many more than you previously realized! No professional photo organizer or photo manager should be delivering a digital collection to a client that includes Undated photos - unless they are identified as such and separated from the
The Megabyte Method Demonstration Series Part 1: File Gathering
- Meg Macintyre
- Megabyte Method
The Megabyte Method is a new approach to organizing digital photo and video collections. It is so different that many people are skeptical of it. So, I decided that the best way to get people’s attention was to record my screen while organizing a collection so that people would be able to watch a video of me working. This article and the corresponding video include different information, so it is
About the Megabyte Method Demonstration Collection
- Meg Macintyre
- Megabyte Method
The collection I will be working with in the Megabyte Method Demonstration Video Series is a scaled-down version of a large and complex collection I organized for a client a few years ago. The project specifications are included in this document because without clear specifications, one cannot appreciate the necessity of many project tasks. Specifications are always part of the agreement between myself and my client.
Undated Photos Part 1: The Unseen Menace
- Meg Macintyre
- Metadata
Undated Photos are a menace! There have been Undated photos in every digital collection I have ever organized. If you have never identified and separated out Undated photos in your clients’ collections, you probably don’t realize how abundant they are. They are difficult to identify using applications commonly used by professional photo organizers. They are difficult to separate out while preserving folder names that may include dates or date