Undated Photos Part 2: Identifying Undated Photos
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 main collection.
This article and the corresponding video examine if and how one can identify Undated photos using: Directory Opus, Adobe Lightroom Classic, Adobe Bridge, Mylio, Finder, File Explorer, Apple Photos and Photo Mechanic.
Undated Photos Part 1: The Unseen Menace
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 clues. It is difficult to find dated versions of Undated photos with many duplicate removal applications. If not found, they will be displayed by the Date Created or Date Modified in the client’s organized collection.
Photo Dates and Terminology – An Introduction
If you’re a professional photo organizer or photo manager, it’s essential to understand photo dates.
Unfortunately, most professional photo organizers have been exposed to misinformation about photo date metadata in courses, webinars, blog posts, and YouTube videos. A great deal of that misinformation is a result of misuse and misunderstanding of terminology like Capture Date and Date Taken.
Different software and different systems use different photo date terminology. In this article, I will provide a little bit of information about photo dates, but I will focus on explaining the terminology that is commonly used, and that is commonly misunderstood.
What Does it Take to Master Digital Photo Organizing?
This is the first article in a series about what it takes to master organizing digital photo and video collections.
Mastery requires knowledge, skill, experience, and the right applications. Only those who understand metadata and who use applications that enable them to do tasks accurately and thoroughly can become masters and deliver expertly organized collections to their clients.
Introducing the Megabyte Method
The Megabyte Method is a workflow for organizing digital photo and video collections.
It’s the result of many years of researching, experimenting, and testing different software and methods. Every aspect of the Megabyte Method has been developed to help professional photo organizers work smarter, not harder, and be more successful.
The Megabyte Method Demonstration Video Series will document the organization of a digital photo and video collection. The demo collection is about 70% of a real collection I organized for a client a few years ago.
Is Photo Organizing Stuff Right For You?
Do you want to organize digital collections more accurately? Do you want to organize digital collections more thoroughly? Do you want to organize digital collections more profitably? Are you willing to consider new software and methods? Are you thinking of becoming a professional photo organizer? If you answered yes to those questions, Photo Organizing Stuff is right for you!
What to Expect at Photo Organizing Stuff
Photo Organizing Stuff articles and videos will cover a wide range of topics of interest and importance to professional photo organizers and photo managers, but the focus will be on the technical aspects of organizing digital photo and video collections. If you are looking for assistance and advice about starting or managing a photo organizing business, you will not find it here!
There will be content relevant to both Mac and PC users. You’ll learn about applications for Mac only, applications for PC only, and applications that are available for both operating systems. There will be a great deal of content focused on examining the results of the extensive software testing I do so that you can reach your own conclusions about the applications and methods you want to use.
Why I Created Photo Organizing Stuff
I created Photo Organizing Stuff to provide current and aspiring professional photo organizers and photo managers with the high-quality technical information and courses they need to organize digital photo and video collections accurately and thoroughly and be successful in their photo organizing business.
But more importantly, I created Photo Organizing Stuff because clients of photo organizers deserve to have their digital collections expertly organized.
There are courses, podcasts, YouTube videos, webinars, blogs, forums, and Facebook groups where one can find information about the technical aspects of digital photo organizing. Unfortunately, most, if not all, contain factual errors and misinformation. Due to the abundance of such information, many technical themes continue to be misunderstood. If you are doubtful or disagree with that bold statement, I’m not surprised. It can be difficult to accept that not everything you have read, heard, or been taught is correct.