Re: help with Photo gallery please - Follow-up Question
- From: "H Brown" <H.Brown@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:11:45 -0500
Hi again, KRK/ trebor
Yes
You could however try the Group By tag or Sort By tag features in Gallery
(right click) or in you Picture folder using the heading columns for Sort or Group.
After a search
for tag 1 using _natural language search._ Search perhaps using advanced
search, Windows logo key+F then tell search to Show Only: Pictures and
build a more complex search string that will return the results you are looking
for. (Open Advanced search and on the tool menu select help, View Help.)
Then save that search in your Searches folder, give it a good name like
"Trebor chill'n" where Trebor is all the pictures of Trebor and chill'n is
the value of tag 1. You can even assign values for the properties of you
saved search. All your doing by saving a complex search is saving the
string. So the next time you need to bring up "Trebor chill'n" , not tags,
working, cooking, dancing etc.etc. Open your Search folder, open the
subfolder "Trebor chill'n" and you can get a new search for all the photos
that match your search string. This would include any photos that you have
tagged and added to your Picture folder of "Trebor chill'n" since the last
time you used this search.
All that being said, Tag is a custom file _property_ that you create to
help _find and organize_ your files. You supply the value of the property,
Tag. However don't over look using all the properties in these files that
you can set a value for. If your using dozens of tags on anyone photo it
seems to me you would want to make sure that the value you set is useful and
meaningful to you and easy to remember. Seems to me tags would be easier to
work with provided you use all the other properties at your disposal as
well. Using all properties could make some of your Tags redundant.
May be you have hundreds of pictures with same Subject or Title that you
use the same tag value for. Perhaps 15 or so of these photos stand out in
ways that the others don't now, you have to decide on a custom property by
putting another tag value, as long as that tag value was useful and
meaningful to each of the 15 only. Or you may use another property like the
Comments: property. At any rate the whole idea of using properties with
keyword(s) values for those properties is so its easier for you to find
things later, out of perhaps thousands.
Its important is to use your Pictures Folder for all photos and categorize
using subfolders. Many times you may create a subfolder that only contains
subfolders with actual files. E.g. in your pictures folder you may have a
subfolder named Sunsets, in your Sunsets folder you have other folders named
Utah, Arizona, Florida etc. In Utah folders are photos of sunsets taken in
Utah. You may add even more subfolders to Utah folder, like Winter, Spring,
Summer and Fall. This is of course is to further categorize and be able to
narrow down finding particular files. You store your pictures in Pictures
folder that is a special subfolder in your User folder and it is indexed for
fast results when searching.
Just design your strategy/ policy using properties and assigning Values and
categorizing using folder and subfolders in your user folder. Then learn as
much as you can about using search in Vista and practice. Then remember
practice dose not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
H Brown
"KRK" <trebor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ut4jLjYyJHA.140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello & thanks to H.Brown, and Jon, for the help.
A follow-up Q if I may.
Can I use the same method to search for photos with tag1only, ie excluding
all photos with tag1 + any other tags. I can see how it might be done
using boolean algebra, but as I have dozens of tags it could be somewhat
messy ?
Thanks again for the help
KK
"KRK" <trebor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:u8SdAAzxJHA.4880@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello,
I use Windows Photo Gallery for all my digital photos. I use tags
extensivley. Many photos have 2, 3 or even 4 tags.
Sometimes I want to display all photos which do have tag1, but exclude
those which have tag2, i.e. (tag1 NOT tag2)
Sometimes I want to display photos which have (tag1 AND tag2), and
sometimes I want to show those with (tag1 OR tag2).
I'm struggling to understand how to use tags and the 'group' option to
show the files I need?
Thanks for any help / advice
KK
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