Organizing and Viewing Your
Digital Photos

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The key to organizing your digital photos is sorting them from the beginning.

I begin by saving a folder to my desktop called "Camera pix," but it can be named anything. Inside this folder, I put a folder for each month. Inside each of those folders I make new folders as I need. For example, In my Camera Pix folder for last year I had a folder called December. Inside my December folder I have three other folders, "POL" for Parade of lights, Christmas, and "Misc."

The end result is a well sorted digital photo album. Whenever I back up my data on CD, I include that Camera Pix folder. As soon as the Folder reaches 650 MB, I put it on its own CD. If you use this method, make sure that you back it up in some fashion on a regular basis. It would be terrible to lose months worth of pictures if your computer crashed.

HOW TO MAKE NEW FOLDERS:

1. Move your mouse over an area of your desktop that does not contain an icon.

2. Click ONCE on your RIGHT mouse button.

3. A menu will pop up, in that menu select NEW --> FOLDER

4. A folder will popup on your desktop, by default the name of this folder will be "New Folder"

RENAME THE NEW FOLDER:

1. Click once on the folder

2. Click once again on the name of the folder - this will allow you to rename the folder - just type the name.