Just dumped using Photoshop Elements 11. While Elements has many nice bells and whistles, I decided to use Picasa and I love it. When you tag people in Elements, it does not display tags individually as you will find in Facebook. Rather all tags are displayed at the same time and many overlap each other. Picasa displays one tag at a time. Secondly, I have one folder that I have my photos from which I link Legacy to. If for some reason you have to restore files, it will create a new file and the pics will be linked to the new file. If you try to import your working file, you will see many duplicates. In my file, I have over 10,000 pictures. I really didn't have time for Element's foolishness.
Morris ________________________________ From: Sentz <ro...@nycap.rr.com> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2013 6:55 PM Subject: Re[2]: [LegacyUG] Organization of Photos, Scanned Documents and etc. JLB Just getting back to you after reviewing your powerpoint presentation on MRINs...interesting how your thought process evolved. I may incorporate some of your ideas as I formulate my new computer filing strategy. I have been considering purchasing photoshop Elements software. Would you know the advantages of using photo mechanic software instead Elements? Understanding LTools, Geosetter and XnView and what they do is on my list. At this point, I don't have that many individual records and haven't had difficulty finding multimedia files. Also, if I am understanding correctly, what is your thinking about not linking any images to Legacy, or just 1 photo for an individual. It's interesting to hear that some others only link some images, but not everything, which makes sense. Do you link any census images at all? Or do you just enter the census data? Cathy ------ Original Message ------ From: "JLB" <j...@jgen.ws> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com Sent: 3/15/2013 9:00:57 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Organization of Photos, Scanned Documents and etc. >I like the sound of the one folder method too. Why complicate things? >The only reason I can think of is that I want to make it understandable >to my non-techie family and likely inheritors. And I also want to be >able to easily find batches of specific files. > >Windows Explorer is a pretty sad excuse for search though. For instance >if I search 'Harris' it will bring up everything keyword tagged Harris >but also every folder with the name Harris in it and every location >that >has Harris in it. No subtlety there at all and it only recognizes a few >of the many IPTC fields. And, being Windows, of course names them >differently than the accepted standard. > >For tagging and searching, there's the free GeoSetter (location data >and >GPS as well as all the range of IPTC tags; keywords, captions, object >name (where I put type of records) source, copyright and much more. >http://www.geosetter.de/en/ > >Or XnView. http://www.xnview.com/ > >Photo Mechanic is also very good but costs about $150. >http://www.camerabits.com/site/ > >Anything that does batch tagging and detailed search (all of the >above-mentioned) is a real boon when you're dealing with thousands of >files. > >Adobe does some gawd awful things with metadata which I've mostly >forgotten now because I moved away from using it a long time ago. One >thing I do remember is that it strips out all maker notes. >----- >JL Beeken >JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists >http://jlog.jgen.ws/ > >On 3/15/2013 5:40 PM, Paul Gray wrote: >> Ron Walter, >> >> I think your approach (one big folder, use other tools to >> organize/find) is actually being touted by some as best practice. I >> use Adobe Photoshop to attach tags or keywords to all photos and >> documents, and then use its search functions to find them. However, >> you don't need a paid program like Photoshop, the free Windows Live >> Photo Gallery has similar capabilities. >> >> One advantage is that one can attach multiple tags/keywords/labels to >> photos. For example, I use one keyword 'gravestone' for all >> headstones/markers, and then add keywords for each of the surnames on >> that marker. Works equally well with group photos. I must admit I am >> in the process of doing this tagging, and I haven't yet actually been >> brave enough to move everything into one folder, but it is where I'm >> heading. >> >> Paul Gray > > > >Legacy User Group guidelines: >http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp >Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: >http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ >Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: >http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ >Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp >Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) >and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). >To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). 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