Organizing Digital Photos: A Picture-Perfect System

Holidays offer plenty of opportunities to capture priceless moments. We asked the HGTV.com Image Team to share their top tips for taking the best pictures and then storing them wisely.

By Leslie Judson
Filed under: Organization, Holiday

Use the macro setting on your camera for extreme closeups. On the camera, the symbol for the Macro setting is usually a tulip. Photo by Ed Szymczak.

9. Reformat your memory card from the camera. This simple step makes a big difference in photo organization. Reformatting cards this way maintains the file number sequence established by the camera, so you’ll never have duplicate file/photo names.

During the holidays especially, pets have all sorts of new things to grab their attention. Have a camera ready to capture all of their naughtiness. Photo by Michele Haley.

10. Many photo applications and photo-sharing sites allow users to tag photos with keywords so that you can find photos easier in the future. Also, many online photo-sharing services read these tags and expose them to their own search engines, so that friends and family have help finding photos when they visit your site. Tag as often as time allows.