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01/23/2005 05:20:00 PM · #26 |
Sure there are ways around it...but am I nuts for thinking this should just be part of what's included?
Another option would be to rename my folders as such:
Jan 2005 - Toronto Jan 4
Jan 2005 - Markus
Jan 2005 - Candles in Window
etc.
Like I said, it's weird that I have to find a way around this...
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01/23/2005 06:04:45 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by thatcloudthere:
Sure there are ways around it...but am I nuts for thinking this should just be part of what's included?
Another option would be to rename my folders as such:
Jan 2005 - Toronto Jan 4
Jan 2005 - Markus
Jan 2005 - Candles in Window
etc.
Like I said, it's weird that I have to find a way around this... |
Sounds like you've previously not had meaningful end folder names - which I think picasa seems to expect. If you encode the folder name in to the directory hierarchy, Picasa isn't going to help you much.
I organise my files on disk as ./Pictures/year/year-month-day_description
which works quite well in most software, including Picasa - having the date in the folder name like that means that sorting works, and the descriptions are meaningful too.
Message edited by author 2005-01-23 18:07:55. |
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01/23/2005 06:19:01 PM · #28 |
No, okay, I figured it out...I didn't think I could add a "Collection" to what was already there (Labels, Folders on Disk & Other Stuff) but you can. It's awkward to find, but by right-clicking a folder and selecting "Move to Collection..." you can select "New Collection" and create additional 'Collections'.
So I can have various collections (Jan 2005, Feb 2005) and the subfolders can be the various shoots (Markus, Toronto - Jan 4, etc.).
This works...
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01/23/2005 06:48:42 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by swagman:
Hmmm.. the part I like is you don't need a hierarchy. The program remembers where the image is. If I need to know a location, I can right-click the image for properties.
If it's an issue, perhaps you can use a code for each folder name? |
The edits you make do not alter the original picture unless you especially export the edited picture out from the Picasa program. All the changes you make are stored in an .ini file in the folder the original image is in.
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01/23/2005 09:57:30 PM · #30 |
For those of you who want a more hierarchal organization scheme I found this post in the picasa forums by one of the developers:
We have another secret way to do this. I don't think I told anyone yet (even people on the team, whoops).
Picasa treats "My Pictures\Picasa" specially:
If you make a hierarchy like this:
My Pictures\Picasa\Vacations\Cape Cod
Then Picasa will create a collection called "Vacations" and put your "Cape Cod" folder in it.
More interestingly, if you make a hierarchy like this:
My Pictures\Picasa\2004\Vacations\Cape Cod
Picasa will create a super-category called "2004", put "Vacations" in that, and "Cape Cod" inside that.
This turns out to be a generalization of the way we index Hello folders, but we haven't used it anywhere else yet.
mike
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01/23/2005 09:58:08 PM · #31 |
I also found another trick in the forums:
There is a way already to get one additional level of hierarchy (but it is not documented, you can find it somewhere here in the forum, though).
Let's do the following:
Create a new collection named Travel~UK (note the tilde symbol ~, it's important). Now take your albums 'London', 'Manchester', 'Plymouth' and put them in this collection.
Now create a new collection named Travel~Germany. Take the albums 'Berlin', 'Munich', 'Cologne' and put them in the collection Travel~Germany.
You now have a 'supercollection' Travel with collections UK and Germany with the albums in the respective collections.
But that's where it ends right now.
Hope that helps,
Prieni
I personally have not tried either of these methods yet but maybe I'll do it when I get home. Hope this helps somebody :) |
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01/23/2005 10:51:33 PM · #32 |
That's great! Especially the second trick. Now, with the "Super"-Collection Name, the Collection Name, plus the name of the folder itself I'm all set!
Archive~
Jan 2005
- Name of Photo Shoot
I can use the stars to identify the final edited versions and the keywords for descriptions as well as "stock", "portrait", "PaD", etc.
Now that we've gotten around that little problem, this is going to be great!
Thanks a million, clenny!
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01/24/2005 12:29:43 AM · #33 |
Originally posted by swagman:
eswik
Keep in mind my comment about saving images straight to CD; that way you can't mess them up. |
I know, I've been starting to make backups of my full size images on cds now. But is there anyway I can recover the original pictures on my hard drive before they were editted?
Picasa shows thumbnails of the original uneditted images [before the thumbnail loads into focus], so is there still a possibility that my original files are still here? |
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01/24/2005 06:38:41 PM · #34 |
eswik
I'm not sure with Picasa, but I'd suspect not. Puting them on CD before editing prohibits the computer from overwriting the file: you must save the edited version elswhere, otherwise the file is written over and permanently changed.
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01/25/2005 01:30:28 AM · #35 |
Originally posted by swagman:
eswik
I'm not sure with Picasa, but I'd suspect not. Puting them on CD before editing prohibits the computer from overwriting the file: you must save the edited version elswhere, otherwise the file is written over and permanently changed. |
Then how could Picasa have obtained a thumbnail of my original image? |
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01/25/2005 05:49:28 AM · #36 |
I've noticed Picasa maintains a thumbnail of photos from my CDs, even though I've put them an o ahard drive, and the thumbnail persists after I remove the CD.
I suspect Picasa saves a thumbnail somewhere on on the computer, otherwise it would disappear when I took the CD from the drive. Altering the photo file probably doesn't alter the original thumbnail 'snapshot' the p[rogram took of the file.
Again, I'm just speculating. |
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