Suggestions on organizing in iPhoto

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in Mac Software edited January 2014
I wanted to find out some of your opinions on a basic approach to organizing images I am considering doing with my images in iPhoto '08...any pros and/or cons you can respond back with would be appreciated!



I am looking at my events in iPhoto and I see about 7 different one's for each of 7 different weddings I've attended; I see about 30 total events for each of the major family holidays over the last several years (X-Mas, Thanksgiving, etc.); and so on and so on...



I was thinking about perhaps keywording each of the images in each of the wedding events using the names of the people who got married, then simply merging all 7 wedding events into a single event (perhaps creating an album out of each before doing so)...I'd then do the same thing for each of the family holidays (merging 30 events into a single event, after keywording appropriately and creating albums out of each event as necessary)...



Anyone have any thoughts on this approach? Pros? Cons?



Thanks!

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  • Reply 1 of 3
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    Originally Posted by m021478 View Post


    I wanted to find out some of your opinions on a basic approach to organizing images I am considering doing with my images in iPhoto '08...any pros and/or cons you can respond back with would be appreciated!



    I am looking at my events in iPhoto and I see about 7 different one's for each of 7 different weddings I've attended; I see about 30 total events for each of the major family holidays over the last several years (X-Mas, Thanksgiving, etc.); and so on and so on...



    I was thinking about perhaps keywording each of the images in each of the wedding events using the names of the people who got married, then simply merging all 7 wedding events into a single event (perhaps creating an album out of each before doing so)...I'd then do the same thing for each of the family holidays (merging 30 events into a single event, after keywording appropriately and creating albums out of each event as necessary)...



    Anyone have any thoughts on this approach? Pros? Cons?



    Thanks!



    That would work but have you thought of just creating an album for each wedding? Then create a folder titled 'weddings' and keep all the albums in them. You don't have to viewl photos by events.



    Just a suggestion.
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  • Reply 2 of 3
    Your suggestion basically re-states what I'd tried to convey I'm considering doing...???
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    Originally Posted by m021478 View Post


    Your suggestion basically re-states what I'd tried to convey I'm considering doing...???



    Well cool then.



    I would skip the keyword part then. It is generally good to ad as much meta data as possible but at some point you get diminishing returns for the effort expended. I would only add a keyword if it provided addition info that you may want to sort by at a later date.
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