If you are anything like my mother (love ya), all of your photos from the past 102 years are ceremoniously dumped into your "My Pictures" folder. There maybe some attempt at organization with a few files labeled with things like "Thanksgiving 2007" or "Uncle Bob's visit." And... the naming convention of each image is the same name the camera gave them, something like... IMG_12345 (sure, I remember that day)!
There are plenty of ways to be more organized. But, here's how I do it (it's actually pretty simple)...
A folder for each day...
In my "My Pictures" folder I have a folder for each day that I took pictures as well as folders for previous years. The folders are named with the following convention... YYYY_MM_DD. (I do it this way so that they can easily be organized consecutively.) I usually have this folder set to "thumbnail view" but here's what the naming looks like...
File Naming...
This is super easy too. After I move my images onto my computer they are re-named (automatically) by date. The convention is shockingly similar to the folder naming with a sequence number added... YYYY_MM_DD-001 One caveat here, you will want to have a program that names the files for you. It's likely that the program that came with your camera could do this. If you don't have software that can do this you could try Picassa from Google for free. Here's a link to the renaming help page... Picassa Renaming Help. No promises from me though, I haven't actually tried it so let me know if it works for you.
That's it! Like I mentioned, there are plenty of other ways to organize. This is how I do it and it works really well for me. I highly recommend finding and using an image organization system that works for you!
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