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1 - Organizing Your Photographs

Programs

Use the following programs to organize your photographs.

 Some Organizing

Photo Mechanic

Organizing & Basic Editing

ACDSee Photo Manager Windows

iPhoto Mac

Picasa Google, Windows & Mac, free

PaintShop Photo Express Corel, Windows

Ulead Photo Explorer Windows

Organizing & Intermediate Editing

Adobe Lightroom Windows & Mac

Aperture Mac

Organizing & Comprehensive Editing

Photoshop Elements:

Windows: Organizer Tutorial

Mac: Bridge Tutorial

Clean the House, First

Before you organize your photographs, you may want to find and delete duplicate photographs.

Go to Duplicates: Find & Delete.

Next, we'll look at four principles for organizing your photographs.