[DM-MUG] Topic of Meeting

[Darcy Baston]

My method is to create parent groupings:

Places
Events
People

And then in those, subdivide them:

Places:
-DSM
--Apartment
--Work
--Parens
-Ontario
--Sudbury
--Toronto
--Ottawa
-NJ
--Hacketsville

Events:
-Birthdays
-Parties
-Outings
-NatureTrips
-Biking

People
-Friends
-Family
-Inspiring

Wherever a photo crosses between multiple classifications, like a picture of
my mother at her birthday party (Sudbury,Family,Birthday), I assign all 3 to
the same picture.

I used to do this in iPhoto but gave it up several months ago to accomplish
the feat with greater performance in iVew Media. IVM also lets me watch the
movies my camera takes from within its interface full screen, resized or as
thumbnails. 

It's got built-in smart albums for viewing assets by media type too, so I
can quickly look at all movies without having to scroll through pictures.

It has a user extensible drop down menu for "actions" that I can apply to
photos and I filled that menu up with Automator scripts (resize to 1024,
email, archive, set as desktop etc.)

Since IVM is collection based, I can maintain multiple libraries on any
media (external HD, CD, DVD, etc.) as a further global classification when
things need to have their own unique drill-down approach. Assets can exist
in multiple catalogs too. Works great!

Darcy


On 5/27/06 3:39 AM, "Victoria L. Herring" <vlherring at herringlaw.com> wrote:

>> 
>> 1. How to organize a growing photo library (keywords, albums, etc.)
> 
> this is a topic that is covered in books even!  I've been researching
> it myself as my own library has grown, but it is a great topic and
> one that we could also cover in the graphics program I spoke of
> earlier.  I like your Q and ideas too by the way, John = just making
> a quick slide show would be a good topic.
> 
> I think topics that are 'how to' or 'hand's on' are more interesting
> to general membership and if kept to single topics can be helpful in
> the 2 hrs. we have.  So one topic on using Keynote to do a slideshow,
> or using iPhoto to do a slideshow, or what 3rd party apps. are there
> to do such, might be a good focus.