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How Do You Organize Photos? I Mark the Ones I want to Find and Re-Use

By John Mosier

Real Estate Agent with Realty ONE Group Mountain Desert DRE #SA554748000

July 10, 2012 08:16 AM

I find that management of my photos consumes a large part of each day. Lately I have been naming them starting with a tilde "~" or carret "^" or sometimes with a "+" character. I favor these special characters because they do not carry special meanings. I can then do a search on them using ~*.jpg or ~N*.jpg, for neighborhood photos or ^A*.jpg for Animals for example.

Since I am a listing specialist, I have many property photos that I use in MLS Listings and Virtual Tours. I have also been naming property photos ~01roomname.jpg or similar to make them sort the way I want them to sort. This approach also separates the photos that have been cropped, resized or otherwise corrected from the original photos which I store in the same directory.

Does anyone have tips on how to better organize photos?

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John Pusa

Glendale, CA

John - Thank you for sharing detailed quality information on how to organize photos. I mark the ones I want to find and re-use.

Jul 10, 2012 09:58 AM

John Mosier

Realty ONE Group Mountain Desert - Prescott, AZ

Prescott's Patriot Agent 928 533-8142

Thanks for your comment, John. How do you mark the ones you want to use? After I mark the best ones as described in my blog post, I copy them into directories and subdirectories according to topic.

Jul 10, 2012 01:46 PM

Tim Bradley

Contour Investment Properties - Jackson Hole, WY

Commercial Real Estate Expert in Jackson Hole, WY

I throw them all into iPhoto, and then assign keywords. Every property photo gets its address as a keyword. Additional keywords could be interior/exterior/room name/city/ etc. Then all I have to do is search by keyword and all the photos I want show up. Wildlife photos get keyworded "wildlife" and also the name of the animal.

The keyword search function is awesome.

Jul 11, 2012 08:17 AM

Thanks, Tim, for your suggestion. Tagging the photos is probably the best answer. It appears that there is no Windows version of iPhoto and that Picasa seems to be the favorite for this function on the PC. I tried Picasa a few months ago and not like it too much. I will try it again.

Jul 11, 2012 08:29 AM

Lee Jinks

Jinks Realty - McAllen, TX

I guess you'll just have to get a Mac.

Jul 11, 2012 09:46 PM

Mike West

Heritage Oak Properties - El Dorado Hills, CA

El Dorado Hills, CA CDPE, CNE, Licensed Loan Origi

I put them into folders. When I go on vacation I may have many subfolders. Boy do I have a lot of folders!

Jul 23, 2012 05:46 AM

Yes, Mike, I also have a lot of folders. A tree organization really does help.

Aug 01, 2012 06:17 PM

Is anyone having success with Picasa?

Aug 01, 2012 06:19 PM

How Do You Organize Photos? I Mark the Ones I want to Find and Re-Use

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