Playing with Picasa

Saturday  in the early evening  Mystie

I blame it on Elly. She’s thinking of buying a computer and brought up the subject of photo organization, a subject that has been on my mind for 2 years. It dawned on me today that photo organization is one of those projects that grows and grows — the longer you wait, the more photos you will have to weed through.

My computer only has our photos through 2008, and we’ve been without a working camera for several months. Now we have a camera again and a new baby coming, which means an influx of pictures is imminent. So, I thought I’d at least take a look at how I might organize things on iPhoto and if Picasa would be useful. Before I knew it, my photos were organized! Really! It wasn’t that big of a deal after all because the technology actually worked and worked together.

And now I have an online album that will not only keep the relatives happy (I hope), but might even make it easier to post pictures, too.

Let’s see

Yup, pretty easy.

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   16 hours, 45 minutes after the fact, Connie responded:

   Mystie, this picture is toooo funny!! I love it!

   Picture organization is one of my on going projects too. I am now facing 25 years worth of paper photos that need to be scanned into computer memory for posterity’s sake. It seems overwhelming at times, and I keep toying with the idea of splurging and having a professional do it for me!

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   1 day after the fact, Brandy Afterthoughts responded:

   Ha! Great picture! ;)

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   2 days, 3 hours after the fact, Elly L. responded:

   Well, I’ll take the heat. :-) Good for you… if only 1000 pictures were so easily weeded and organized..

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   2 days, 4 hours after the fact, Mystie responded:

   Connie, yes, at least I’m glad we went digital before Hans was born. We’ve since lost any pre-Hans photos (if we even took any….), but all baby pictures are on the computer and much easier to manage than boxes of film and glossy prints.

   Elly — Well, today I copied our picture archives onto the Mac and went from ~200 to almost 3,000 pictures. And I’m still missing 2007. And there are suspicious gaps in the dates, although it is certainly possible that I really did go for 3 months at a time without taking pictures. :) Mostly I have several hundred photos of each of the children’s first three months, and then smatterings here and there in between. Anyway, I think it will take me some time to slog through the archives. It’s a sitting-down job, though, that’s good for cloudy days, and now that it’s started there’s definitely a momentum going.

   So far it’s seemed like a job that appeared to be more difficult and time-consuming that it has turned out to be. I hope once you start in on yours it’ll be the same! Maybe you should wait for that last-month-of-the-pregnancy-and-you-don’t-want-to-do-anything stage, too. :)

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