101 QUICK AND EASY SECRETS FOR USING YOUR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS- P7:Millions of people around the world have many photos stored on their laptop and desktop computers, external hard drives, CDs and DVDs, and flash drives. Most images are just sitting there idle, waiting for the world to see them. Some have been unused for years. Up until now there has been no guide to help people find ways to use these photos. | 16 Preparing Your Photos for Use Make sure you include some info about your photo title date time rating and keywords in the Information box at the bottom left of the iPhoto window. iPhoto uses this information to categorize your image files. You can also create Smart Albums by words from the text you ve included in your photo descriptions in the Information box. The Smart Albums can then be images with any some or all of the following specifications dates events keywords filenames your ratings of the photographs and or any aperture or shutter speed you shot at. Oh and if you make a mistake with an album you can delete it by using Photos Delete Album. Managing Your Photos in Picasa Do you have photos that are everywhere on your computer so many places that you can t seem to find what you want If that describes you the best solution for viewing your photos is Google s Picasa. It s a program you download onto your computer that automatically scans your hard drive for folders with images in them sorts them by date or other parameters and displays them in a window on your computer. To get the program go to . In this photo-use idea I ll go over how to use Picasa to manage your photos. In the next photo-use idea I ll explain how to edit your photos in Picasa. In Chapter 2 I ll go over how to share your photos using Picasa web albums an online platform that works in tandem with Picasa. If you look at Figure you ll see that Picasa lists folders handily by the date they were created listing the most recent folders first. The program can categorize the folders pictures by the year they were taken listing the most recent year first. The contents of folders can be sorted by name or by size Folder Sort By . In the figure you see the list of folders in a frame on the left side of the window and the images in that folder on the right. You can click and drag one or more photos from the right frame and put them into any folder on the left. Unlike in iPhoto .
