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June 26, 2008 3:26 PM PDT

Indecent Exposure 11: Indexing exercises

by Lori Grunin

With the help of Aimee Baldridge, a former CNET editor, we tackle critical keywording questions and other crises of photo management.


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EPISODE 11

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Hey there, enjoying your podcast from Sydney, Australia. Question for the show: What are your recommendations in regards to digital photo management? Here's my situation. I'm currently using iPhoto to store my photos, but I'm quickly running out of disk space on my mac book (I'm a father of a 1yo daughter - need I say more!). I have a file server at home which I would like to archive older photos to, but still be able to easily access them. I primarily use the photos to make prints and DVDs with iMovie. I understand that you can create a separate iPhoto library but switching between the 2 is a pain. Would Aperture solve this issue for me? I'm a point & shoot person (Sony DSCT100) looking into getting an entry level DSLR. Cheers, Peter


Archival DVDs?

I'm looking into archival DVDs for my major event photography (weddings, etc.: raw photos w/ Lightroom catalog). Is there a major difference (besides cost) between silver and gold DVDs? Also, should I be giving my clients archival or standard DVDs (considering cost and longevity)? Thanks for your work on this podcast and on cnet. Matthew


Fun with keywords

I have a question for your guest about keywords. I've recently begun applying simple keywords to my pictures so that I can filter using Lightroom and find certain things like weddings, lakes, sunset, etc. I wish I had been doing this all along so that I could sift through my library of photos more easily if I need to find something in particular. I'm wondering if your guest for next week has some quick tips on keywords like a fast way to add them, or how detailed to be when putting in keywords, etc. Thanks so much. Love the show. -aaron


Senior Editor Lori Grunin has been covering digital imaging for two decades, but her memory's kind of sketchy on the details. You can hear about it every week on Indecent Exposure, the podcast she co-hosts with Matt Fitzgerald.
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by JayMonster June 27, 2008 10:23 AM PDT
Was Aimee just really quiet or was there something wrong with the audio? Between Aimee sounding very quiet, and Lori... well not... it was a very difficult episode to listen to.
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by atfr June 27, 2008 11:06 AM PDT
How you not talked about Picasa, is a grate photo and video management system, captions, tags anything you want and has direct buttons for photo sharing and blog publishing.
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by JayMonster June 30, 2008 10:53 AM PDT
I have to disagree atfr. Picasa, is in a word... awful. Well, dated might be another word. Picasa, is a cute little program, but even the new free LiveGallery from Microsoft bests it now in ease of use and in ************. Of course neither of these can hold a candle to a full blown system such as ACDC or Lightroom.
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by caffemacchiato June 14, 2009 12:32 AM PDT
Two topics keep surfacing, children (careful) and cats (extra careful).

Curiosity got the better of me, and I love the 'Ferdy' picture in SmugMug.
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