One of the big problems with mobile photography is that we take hundreds and thousands of photos and then it takes forever to find them. This is probably one of the things we waste the most time on: image research. That’s why we’re going to recommend apps and the best method to order and delete our photos on the mobile.
We take so many photos that we immediately fill the phone memory and start deleting without being sure that we have saved all the information correctly. The best advice I can give is to think before you shoot, but I know that’s impossible.
That’s why we are going to see some tips to keep everything well organized and some applications that can be useful to find any photo when it is requested or needed.
The organization of our photographs on the mobile
We risk a lot by saving our photos only on the mobile. The first thing I would recommend is to always make a backup to avoid losing them. Right now we have several options, ranging from occasionally downloading them to a USB stick to save them on the computer to relying on cloud services.
The problem is that the space we have by default is usually scarce. Of course you can pay to have more space, but it’s not about filling without rhyme or reason, especially if you’re trigger-happy. It doesn’t matter how many teras we have, if we don’t find what we’re looking for, it’ll be like we have nothing.
Adobe Lightroom
- Price : Free (paid version)
- To download : android
I always say that one of the best options for organizing our file is Adobe Lightroom, as long as you have a Creative Cloud subscription. Automatically, all the photos are downloaded to the computer and there we can organize them without any problem. In addition, it provides us with automatic backup, and without the need to pay more.
The keys to properly organizing our photographs are few:
- Forget arranging datesbecause unless you have privileged memory, it’s impossible for you to remember what you did on February 13, 2012. do it automatically.
- Do not use default names who have the photographs and are looking for a system that allows us to give a personal and non-transferable name to our shots, to avoid many problems in the future.
- Back up essential photos and avoid duplicates no matter what.
- Use the labels or keywords to easily find our photos.
For example, I haven’t found an app that can rename multiple photos at once. It is something that should come by default in all of them, as it happens in the desktop versions. Doing it one by one can be a nightmare and will cause us to give up immediately.
Another thing that I recommend is to delete the photos that we don’t like when the weather passes, never hot, at the time of the trip. And especially at a time when you can be focused. It wouldn’t be the first or the last time we delete files we don’t want.
Regarding the use of tags or keywords, geographic location is easily solved with GPS data, but words that describe the image must be used. And always follow three rules to avoid conflicts:
- All lowercase.
- Without accent.
- Always singular.
In this way we will avoid the possible problems that applications that use English as a base and do not recognize the singularities of our language can cause us.
Obtaining these four points is something difficult to do with all mobile applications, but we will see what are the best options we can find.
F-Stop Gallery
It would probably be the only app you would work with if you weren’t so attached to Adobe Lightroom. It has a free version and a paid version.. The Pro version has a very nice option worth paying for, which is the option to write .XMP metadata for later sharing in Adobe Lightroom or Capture One.
F-Stop Gallery
- Price : Free (there is a paid version)
- To download : android
But if you don’t need this extra, the free app offers some very useful features. Of course, you can easily delete any file. You can also generate tags and organize by albums. And best of all, the search system is instantaneous.
Google Photos
Google Photos is an application that delivered with all our mobiles. And it’s better. After giving all permissions, and thanks to metadata and localization, manages to automatically organize all our photographs in folders according to the site where we made them. And of course, remove anything unnecessary.
Google Photos
For example, it creates folders with the themes you photograph the most: Hiking, Cooking, Birthdays or Wine, to save the labels of the ones you like. And of course, depending on the geographical location. It impresses the control and information that dominates…
The painting
This is one of the apps that surprised me the most. In addition to being organized in the same way as the previous application, allows you to create private folders that only you can see in case you don’t want someone to see your food recipes, for example.
The painting
One of the things that I liked the most is that it allows you to change the size of the photos to adapt it to any social network. And it allows you to categorize directly by tags or keywords, something fundamental.
Maybe if you have been using your mobile for a long time and have thousands of photos, you may be too lazy to start organizing them. But when you change terminals, do not hesitate to put into practice what we have described here. This will be the only way to find our photos without wasting time.
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