Synopses & Reviews
If you're like most digital camera owners, you really need to organize the photo collection on your computer. After all, how easy is it to find particular pictures in that sea of images? Managing Your Digital Shoebox offers you ingenious yet easy-to-follow guidelines for managing thousands of photos so you can quickly find and use a picture you took last week, or last year.
Many people like you rely on software programs that file your photos automatically. But what happens when a better program comes along? Can you transfer those files? And what about today's storage devices -- will they still be in use five years from now? Or next month? Managing Your Digital Shoebox puts your mind at ease by addressing those concerns and much more. With this book, you will:
- Learn a photo-management strategy that's not dependent on specific software or hardware
- Discover the seven most important things you need to do to keep photos organized, available, and secure
- Get clear directions for setting up your computer, camera, and external hard-drive
- Keep your images safe and well-organized no matter what technical advancements may come along
Managing Your Digital Shoebox is a fun reference for any hobbyists or casual photographers overrun by their own image archives. From the moment you take a photo, you'll understand what to do to store, share, and print the image -- and enjoy it for generations to come.
Synopsis
To help consumers who are overwhelmed by the number of digital images they take, this beautiful four-color book offers a powerful set of guidelines for managing photos.
About the Author
Sarah Bay Williams is determined to educate the everyday photographer on how to organize and enjoy their photos for generations to come. Her book, Managing Your Digital Shoebox: How to Organize, Find and Share Your Digital Photos, is based on the premise that the ease of taking digital photos should never, ever, compromise the ability to find them in the future. As Communications Photography Coordinator of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (presenters of the Oscars©), Sarah built from the ground up their communications photography department, managing hundreds of thousands of digital photos taken by professional photographers for the Academy's growing historic collection. She is now a Ralph M. Parsons Curatorial Fellow in the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.