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This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Where to start cataloging over 90,000 pictures. (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Correct_Signal_@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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I’ve been taking pictures since I was a teenager now my kids have grown up an I have over 90k pics.

I’m also digitizing Slides, 8mm film, printed pic etc.

Any ideas on software , techniques, steps, cool ideas to organize this and maybe put them to some use ?

Thank you 🙏

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[–] suburbanbeat@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi! I'm going through the same process right now. Not quite 90k, but I'm cataloging about 25k photos that I took between the ages of 12 and 36. My process has been roughly thus:

Organize photos by year in individual folders for each year. This was a manual process that took forever. No way around it!
Organize by season within each annual folder - Winter, Spring, Summer Fall.
Use OSX batch rename function to rename all files according to year and season.
Use Lightroom to resize everything to 4x6 inches at 300 DPI. The early digital photos are way too low-res to be usable and the newer digital photos are unnecessarily high-res. Resizing everything this way makes them print-ready and at a size that makes them practical to post or share right away.
Use Photoshop + Dehancer to add light film emulation using the Image Processor function. Added Gaussian blur to older, low-res photos to mask digital artifacts. Those photos are blurry, but with heavier film emulation they could pass as super grainy 110 film shots or something.
From there I tagged the photos that I thought were the best within a given year. I was left with between 400-700 photos per year that I thought were better than others.

[–] Correct_Signal_@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Good ideas thank you. Good luck with the project