Set up your digital photo albums

So you are ready to set up your digital photo albums.

You have two options on this page. You can click on the video and you will see a visual demonstration of how to set up your files for storing your digital photos (ie your digital photo albums). Alternatively you can scroll down and get the same information in the form of text and screen shots

Most people will want to set up Holiday Photo Albums, Wedding Photo Albums, Family Photo Albums and other titles under which to store their photos.

You have to start thinking of the storage of digital photos as a physical thing just like storing "real" photographs. You wouldn't just take your holiday pictures and throw them anywhere in your house. If you do, you will never be able to find specific photographs again when you need to.

Instead, you set up your digital photo albums on your hard drive before you download the photos to your computer. So lets get started.

Every new PC comes with a folder called "My Pictures". To locate this click on Start and then My Pictures

When you click on My Pictures the folder opens on screen. It usually has one folder of sample pictures in it already.

We now want to make a new folder specific to our needs in the MY Pictures folder. To do this, go to File then New then Folder

When you left click on Folder a new folder waiting to be named appears in your My Pictures folder.

To name this folder, you just type the title you want to give it and either press enter or left click anywhere in the blank space in the folder. In this case, I am calling my folder "Camera Pics March 2008".

You repeat this process, creating folders each time you want to download photos from your camera. If you get into good habits doing this you will always be able to locate your photos based on when they were taken, or by the event at which they were taken.

Another method for creating folders is to right-click in a blank part of the my pictures folder, go down to New and then Folder

This gives the same result as before. A new folder opens, waiting for you to give it an appropriate name.

You are now able to set up folders for your photos, Congratulations!

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Therefore, the first thing we do before we import a set of digital pictures is set up a folder into which we will put them. These folders will be our digital photo albums

After you set up your folders, it's time to download digital photos you have taken and store them for sorting and viewing

With your photos downloaded to your folder, you will want to view them. You can use your computer as a photo viewer

There are a number of programs that you will regularly use to view and edit your photos. You will need to create desktop shortcuts to these programs. This avoids having to go Start / All Programs and then select the program each time you need it. Learn how to create desktop shortcuts

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