I often take a large number of images in a short period of time of a specific event, like the Magnolia Mirror or Freedom Day 2000. I have developed the following routine to cope with these images.

1. Transfer images from camera media to computer.
2. Quickly browse through the images using Irfanview.
3. At this stage delete delete and rotate.
4. Delete all images which are unusable for photographic reasons:
   • out of focus
   • too dark
   • too light
   • missed subject
   • intrusions by people, cars or other objects
5. Rotate images which has been taken in portrait orientation
6. Decide on a name for the series.
7. Rename all images in the series according to the name with a serial number added to the end. For less than 100 images a two-digit serial number is ok; for more than 100 images use a three digit number.
8. Always number in the order the images was taken. Digital photographic standards retain little enough information about the image parameters when the photo was taken. This is the least that can be retained with little effort.
9. Multirename by ??? makes renaming and seriation easy
10. Always number using 01, 02, 03 etc. This will ensure an orderly sort when sorting on filename and/or extension.
11. Archive the images to a permanent storage area. This can be another directory on the harddrive, or cd-rom (best option) or stiffies.
12. Selection of usable images. Not all images are usable even though they are photographically perfect.
    • Not relevant to the subject at hand
    • Duplicates
    • Subject matter too small
    • Esthetically unpleasing
13. Copy the usable images to the workarea. The complete set is now safely out of the way, and accidents can be recovered easily.
14. Create relevancy rich thumbnails.
15. Resize large size images where needed.
16. Code thumbnails.
17. Link to large size images where needed.
18. Add text information to thumbnails.
19. Thumbnails should preferably have the following information, especially if it is not apparent from the context in which the image is used:
    • Name of the event or place.
    • Date the photograph was taken.
    • Names of people visible on the image
    • Description of the image.

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