FORGOTTEN TREASURES

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We've been doing a big house clean up over this long weekend and while doing it I found lots of old photo magazines stashed in various (some very odd) spots round the place.

One of tehm was an old copy of Better Digital from 2002.  As I turned the pages there was a full sheet of 4 panorama hot air balloon shots from Canberra,  I thought "gee those are goodm why have.t they captioned them?".  Then I realised they were my pics, it was some I'd printed out and slipped in and 'cos it was shiny photo paper it had really stuck in the spine.

I think I better review my old CDs of images.  I'm never satisfied with my work, but coming on these ones 'by surprise' gave me a very pleasant one!

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It is very worthwhile revisiting older images. While sometimes it is cringe material, others provide insights into the ongoing learning process.
While I bothered to store most of my older trannies (slides) into plastic sleaves, I have hundreds of prints still in the original folders and envelopes as they were returned from processing. It so much more difficult to bother to organise this later, and I wish (with the benefit of hindsight) that I had put them into albums when fresh.
The modern equivelant is not taking the time organis(z)e digital files according to some consistent format.
While we are quite methodical with our porfessional Portrait image filing and back up, I am still guilty of just piling the personal work into a folder, relying on date order to find material.
While I have not used Adobe photoshop elements for some time, it had a time-line feature, which I liked, where you could uses a slider on a time scale to view thumbnails. I found this to a very intuitive system. You could also quickly tag images with keywords by highlighting an image. I wish the feature had carried over to Photpshop CS3. The Adobe Bridge application in CS3, is very powerfu, but not quite so intuitive.