How to find your best photo
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We all have a lot of photos, a tonne, or a mega tonne of photos. But how do you find the best photos so that you can share them with all of your friends and family?
Let me share with you my tips on how to find the best photos in your photo catalogue.
Tip 1: Go to significant dates
We all tend to take photos around significant dates and events, whether it's a holiday that you've been on, a mega birthday or an anniversary. At these events, we're more relaxed, we're more candid, and we might have even put a bit of lippy on to make ourselves look a bit more fabulous. Also, at these events, we tend to have groups of people that we could want to find. So go to those years and months in your photo catalogue and check out what gems you have there.
Tip 2: Use your photo app to help
If you use a photo app, like Apple photos, Amazon photos or Google Photos, they have a clever AI system to help you find your best photos. Firstly there is the search function where they will check out what is in your photos and make it searchable, like dog cat beach or ball. Then you have the people facial recognition that they do, name all the faces that the app finds and you have your own gold mine of photos of particular people, and don't forget the places section in some of the photos apps, check out the GPS coordinates embedded in your photo and tells you where it was taken
Tip 3: Use the memories function
All the different photo apps have a memories feature and they have different levels of sophistication. From Amazon photos with just years to Apple photos, curating beautiful memory slideshows of particular events, things, places or types of activities like exploring
So check out what they think are your best photos!
Tip 4: Use programmes to help you
So if you don't use a Photos app, and all your photos are on your computer, there are some programmes out there that will scan your photos and suggest keywords that you can embed in the photos and then search on similar to the photo app AI. But also they can find faces and whether that face is smiling, or not and if their eyes open is key feature of a good photo
My favourite programme for this is Excire. There is a standalone version that sits on your computer called Excire photo, but if you're an Adobe Lightroom user, there is an Excire Search plugin that you can use to search all of your photos.
So you have found all those photos but how do you not lose them again, simple, for the apps add a favourite heart and for those non-app users on Windows add a rating in the file properties or on the Mac a bit of colour tagging. You'll never lose them in your ton of photos again!
What Next?
Are you still struggling and don't know how to get started with photo organising? I have put together a simple straight forward quick start guide to organising your photos which you can find here.