timfarnsworth

I don't really need editing software since Epson has some already.

Have figured out some of how Adobe Bridge works.

The only issue I may have now is how to figure out how to get it so photo files can be edited or metataged from a remote source.

Such as mom editing picture tags without software or over complicated.

One idea I have it to upload x number of pictures onto flickr or similar , have them add data or info there , then re-download it onto my pc storage, then do another set after that one gets completed.

I don't know how Bridge and Flickr work together.

Or maybe I need to mess with Bridge more to figure some details out.

What are thoughts on this way of doing it?

Why are you scanning and then archiving all your family's old photos? Including your grandparents? Who's going to look at them? IS anyone interested in looking at some vacation trip your grandparents took? Are aunts and uncles really going to look through all these pictures to help you tag them? Don;t they have enough of their own albums they don't want to look at either? Would it be better to just scan some of the best? No one is ever going to look at 10,000 photos on a memory card. Why not just keep the albums for memory sake? What's wrong with just looking at the albums?

I know a few said no one cares about these images or why would they be dropped into boxes.

The images come from times were albums were the thing and times were you would hand someone a envelope of pictures to see the Vacation or event.

Albums are starting to get in bad shape and images of my Aunts, Uncles etc are aging.

My extended family lives in different states and have extended families of there own that continually grow.

Preserving these photos in digital form is what my ultimate goal is.

I don't know all the answers to your questions and I'm not sure what the best software/storage solutions are. It depend a lot on how many photo's you have, what the quality is and what the quality you want them to have. I would break your questions down into 4 parts:

- storing the scanned images securely

- organizing them (initially) yourself (?)

- publishing them somewhere online so that people can view them and add comments/tags

- updating your image tags based on comments/tags by others

 

Storage: have at least 1 (removable) backup drive or 1 backup drive and 1 cloud backup.

 

Organizing: Adobe Lightroom (part of the 'Creative Cloud' package) will do the job fine and will help you do quick basic adjustments/enhancements. For example to faded or color casted photos. Adobe Bridge (free) does much the same as Lightroom on the organizing side (rating, tagging) but you'd need to use different software for any adjustments/enhancements to photos.

 

Publishing: multiple options here (Google, Flickr, FourSquare, etc). As far as I know (I may be wrong), publishing to an Adobe gallery is the most reliable way of maintaining tags during publishing/synch.

 

Updating tags: It's likely that people may enter different tags/comments for the same photo's. In many 'solutions', you would need to manually update your tags. Adobe may allow tags added by viewers to be synched automatically. Check this.

 

I'm not sure what software you already use or what your budget is. Something well worth considering is a year's subscription to the Adobe Lightroom plan ($10/mo). This includes Lightroom CC, 1TB of cloud storage and your own portfolio website. The Creative Cloud Plan includes Lightroom + Photoshop + 20GB of cloud storage which may me enough storage anyway.

 

Since all Adobe products use the XMP format, you can use Bridge and Lightroom interchangeably. If at the end of the year (when the photos look in good shape) you could drop the Lightroom subscr. and continue using Bridge (free) with the meta-data (tags).

 

Hope this helps,

 

Mike

Thanks for the ideas on publishing and cloud storage.

The Adobe plan sounds good but only problem would have is if people do not update them and I end up getting stuck with a ton of images that are on the site with no updating.

Don't like that it would cost money to do so, but do understand storage isnt free, and the XMP format may end up helping and if I can get the tags to stay while updating formats I can also update locally.

Good ideas I will look into it further.

If it were me, I wouldn't count on cloud storage. If you have a lot of big image files it will take a long time to load and you will probably exceed the free storage limit. What might make sense would be to upload small JPEG files to a cloud source for people to look at and identify places, dates, etc. and then go back and add that to your full size files. At that point, I would distribute thumb drives or DVDs to everyone who needs them and make a set of M discs for yourself along with storing them on a hard drive for convenience.

Sounds like a good idea, but what software or organizing software do I use for that. I can throw 10,000 thumbnails on a cloud source and name it unique but not sure how people would change or add data to it. Or are you talking like a cloud service like flickr or similar? then add tags or data ?

Currently I have many boxes pictures ,newspaper clippings and photo albums . Everything from wedding photos to backyard play. This is coming from my Grandparents and parents. Brought a Epson v600 scanner online. Here is the questions I am wondering.

What do I use to tag the photos with. Searchable database by date,person, event etc. Example. Some are graduation photos.

What do I use to store the photos. I can number them onto a HDD or store the database onto a HDD but ideally it would work the best to do a online storage such as dropbox etc. One of the main problems I have with flickr or other similar storage options is that I would have to pay yearly for a extended family thing. And what happens when I get to the point that I cannot pay them or they shut down. Then all my images are lost.

Also what database or tag source would have to be able to edit from different sources, such as aunts and uncles that know more about the picture then I do.