Mastering Photo Culling: 5 Software Tips For Organizing Your Images!

We all need to organize our photo collection. Hence, there is a need for excellent photo organization habits because once we adopt one method of working, we are stuck with it for a very, very long time. So, let’s ensure we get on the right track by adopting these 5 photo organization software tips!

This video has tips on the beginning half and my photo organization software methods. Some are good, and some are terrible. It is a work in progress, everyone 😒


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This is a guide to picking the right photo organization (culling) software.

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Here are the video chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:32 Why photo culling (photo organization) is important
00:51 Tip #1 Build a good photo organizing folder structure
01:33 Tip #2 Always rename photo files at import
02:20 Tip #3 Understand how meta data works (meta data is your friend)
03:22 Tip #4 Tag with keywords
04:07 Why I will never key word tag my photos
04:30 Tip #5 Rate your photos as soon as you can
05:16 Conclusion Strategize before you start organizing
05:48 How I work with my photo organization software
06:18 My folder strategy
10:46 Why I still do not use Adobe Lightroom Classic
12:37 Why I still use Adobe Bridge
14:01 My tagging strategy in Adobe Bridge
16:43 My Photo organization software wish list
17:30 Excire photo culling software
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