Sorting photos

[Dolby]

I'm busy sorting some of my photos and wondered if the 'modified date' (right click photo > properties) is the date I took them for sure? Is there anyway I could have changed this modified date by mistake?

 

[Dolby]

Oh - I've just answered my own question : no

I have some Christmas photos with a date of 31 December. How can I find out for sure when photo's are taken? What is the modified date?

 

[bwana]

Check the EXIF information if its available.

EDIT:

In Windows XP and later Microsoft operating systems, a subset of the Exif information may be viewed by right clicking on an image file and clicking properties; from the properties dialog click the Summary tab

 

[Dolby]

Perfect - thanks

 

[Dolby]

I have one or two photos here that I do know the date, but the EXIF isn't updated (I probably hadn't set the date on the camera ...).

Is there anyway I can edit EXIF?

 

[nihilist]

Don't reply purely on EXiF data.

Setup a nice system for your photos.

For example, under My Pictures, make a folder named Photos
under Photos have a year, and within there a folder with dates + short description.

So you'd have a system that looked a bit like:
My Pictures\Photos

[FONT="Courier New"][FONT="Lucida Console"][FONT="Fixedsys"]
├───2002
│   ├───04-00 G-string shopping for my mom
│   ├───15-06 Getting arrested 
│   └───16-14 My goatse collection
├───2003
│   ├───01-17-24 Vacation with Xenu
├───2004
│   ├───05-12 MyADSL Lingerie Party
[/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]

It's a bit overboard, but once you have that in practise you won't have much trouble finding your stuff

 

[bwana]

Don't reply purely on EXiF data.

Setup a nice system for your photos.
...

It's a bit overboard, but once you have that in practise you won't have much trouble finding your stuff

Nice but why not use one of the freely available photo organising apps like Picasa?

 

[nihilist]

Because:

1) If you want to switch to another system, you might have some problems migrating your collection.

2) I prefer to do it myself

And I'm sure Picasa will still use your photos in the above mentioned filing system.

My -2c

Nice but why not use one of the freely available photo organising apps like Picasa?