There's a drastic change in the number of pictures we take of every memory. What tools/flow do you use to organize and build a db of photos? Maybe even backups too.<p>There are ways to organize movies, shows, music that I've come across but nothing solid for photos.
I've struggled with this for the last 18 years, and quit my tech job to build a solution. It's in closed beta right now, but I'm going to send out another wave of invites next week. Read more and sign up here: <a href="https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/</a>
I just dealt with this crap storm of a project last month. We had 40k photos scattered across three laptops, old hard drives, and sd cards. First I just crudely copied all of the folders on to an external hard drive and ran a freeware duplicate remover to clean out about 20% of them. Then I used a python script to go through this giant pile of pics and copy them in to folders by year and month based on the created date. It also added yyyy-mm-dd to the beginning of each file name. Now we are slowly going through month by month and adding simple tags in the file name (event, location, names). It’s far from perfect, but I didn’t want to deal with keeping everything synced in a database or locked in to a certain OS or app, plus it should still be searchable in 15 years when we are all running Windows 30 and Mac OS Ozarks or whatever.
At the moment, I use iPhoto and iCloud photos. But this method does not scale.<p>I would love to have a more scalable cross-platform solution. Maybe something like Adobe Lightroom that didn’t require a huge monthly subscription, plus all the storage costs.
1) Photos taken from my mobile phone (android) are backed up to "Google photos". This allows me to search by dates/objects/people/location etc. Google also allows me to cast (screensaver) it to the television using chromecast.<p>2) Photos taken from DSLR are backed up to the folder on external drives(2) and also synced with google photos.<p>This set-up is working fine for many years. I haven't explored any other tools in recent times.
I created <a href="http://gallery.hd.org" rel="nofollow">http://gallery.hd.org</a> back in the day (a) to make photos available for free when there weren't many eg for school projects and (b) to origanise my own photos!<p>I am not taking many at the moment, so it's been less of an issue...
I mostly have them backed up using backblaze. I just dump a lot of them into my hard-drive from time to time.<p>Also, google now offers unlimited photo storage (as long as you are okay with compression) if you have google photos. Its free.
I sync them to my laptop and keep them there for 30 days. Within those 30 days, I either post them in Whatsapp/Facebook stories or send them to family/friends. Then, I just delete them.