Thanks to guest blogger Benjamin Brooks for the post.
I take so many photos every day and yet the hardest part is not taking those numerous photos every day, but rather managing all those photos and sharing them. The very first thing I do is to move all my photos from my camera to my computer, and then open them up in Photoshop. I adjust the exposure, brightness, etc and then if I’m feeling particularly picky, I even use the stamp tool in Photoshop to get rid of annoying blemishes on my face. Especially if I am saving these photos to Facebook, I tend to go through them in Photoshop and adjust them correctly so that they are not too dark or that the colors look right, since Facebook doesn’t have the best image quality and so anything I can do before uploading the pictures helps. The editing part is the most time-consuming since I have hughes net internet service at home and so the uploading does not take long at all. Then I create a new photo album on Facebook and take the necessary actions: give it an appropriate title, add photo descriptions, etc. Overall, photo management can be very time consuming but interesting in its own ways since the photos I am editing are photos of me, not of some other random person that I might have just happened to meet on the street. With so many satellite internet providers, photography has changed so much for the better.
I wish I had the patience to do all that. About 50% of the time I’ll do it with the pictures on my blog, but quite often I just upload as is, straight out of the camera. I’m sure I could get better photos if I took some time to edit them as well. I never edit my facebook ones (except the profile picture once in awhile)
Teresa — note that this is a GUEST post. I only edit “keepers”.
I do the same, I put all my photos on the computer, run them through Picasa but that’s it. I never used Photoshop, I don’t have time to learn it, lol !
I don’t like facebook at all, I subscribed to see a few pictures my son had put on facebook and suddenly I had over 100 people who wanted to be my friends ! 95 % I didn’t even know. The only positive thing which came out was that Mr.G. got in contact with his cousin he had seen the last time when both were 6 years old ! His son had discovered my name and thought I must be the wife of his uncle and it was true ! Strange isn’t it ?
Gattina — wow — you are popular. i’ve only been contacted by a few strangers on Facebook.
I agree that managing all the photos we take is really a challenge. Right now I’m scanning all our old photo albums and that’s really taking a doozy of a long time. However, I’m determined to do this. Photoshop does a beautiful job of fixing up those bad photos, too.
Kay — I don’t try to manage them ALL, but what you are doing is way different and much more valuable than what I do.
Editign ALL photos after download?
Nah.
I have nice little folders for each time I take shots, labelled with location and date, so they are easy to find.
When I need something I just hop over and edit the one I need
I should start deleting the ones I def. DO never need right away though…. uhm….
Nicole – -I don’t edit them all, either. Keep in mind,this was a GUEST post.
If you do it right away, it´s much easier to keep up. But I rarely have the time for editing. Only when I use pictures on my blog or fb, do I edit. But even then I sometimes just don´t have time.
Betty — yes, right away or never is usually the way I do it1 And I don’t do ALL the photos, just the “keepers”.
I love taking pictures and it is hard enough dealing with them if you have a slow internet connection.
Nessa – -tell me about it! Sometimes this one is so slow my computer gets bored and goes to sleep during uploads and downloads!
taking photos is fun; managing them, not so much