{"id":19579,"date":"2015-05-21T11:42:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T15:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/?p=19579"},"modified":"2015-05-22T11:56:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T15:56:17","slug":"mediastorm-guide-to-organizing-camera-phone-pictures-with-alfred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/21\/mediastorm-guide-to-organizing-camera-phone-pictures-with-alfred\/","title":{"rendered":"MediaStorm Guide to Organizing Camera Phone Pictures with Hazel"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re like me, you probably take lots of pictures with your phone. Organizing thousands of images can feel overwhelming.<\/p>\n

Apple has tried to makes this a seamless process with the introduction of iCloud and the new Photos<\/a> app. As convenient as it is to automatically upload all your images to the cloud, Apple\u2019s service has one glaring omission. You can not delete individual pictures. It\u2019s an all or nothing solution.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019ve created my own workflow.<\/p>\n

With my phone connected to my Mac, I use Apple\u2019s built-in utility Image Capture<\/strong> to download all pictures to a specified folder. I make sure to delete the images from the phone as I download, ensuring that I don\u2019t end up with duplicates.<\/p>\n

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Next, I use Noodlesoft\u2019s<\/a> Hazel ($29) to automate organization.<\/p>\n

Hazel is a system utility that applies specified rules to a given folder. In this case, after I\u2019ve downloaded my images to my pictures folder, I use two Hazel rules.<\/p>\n

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The first, automatically moves any downloaded camera movies to my movie folder.<\/p>\n

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The second, automatically sorts JPG images with less than a 4000 pixel height in to a subfolder based on the month in which it was taken.<\/p>\n

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So my images are automatically organized like so:<\/p>\n

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At the end of each month, I send myself an automated reminder to copy the last month\u2019s folder to Dropbox<\/a>, where I keep my backup. To date, I\u2019ve used about 12 GB. For $100 a year, I receive 1TB. Remember, these are camera photos, not RAW pictures.<\/p>\n

To view my archive from my phone, I use Dropbox\u2019s wonderful free app Carousel<\/a>, which alleviates the need to store all of my images locally, thus freeing up space.<\/p>\n

Of course, there are lots of other great photo services available. Here\u2019s a recent roundup from The Verge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d love to hear your strategies in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re like me, you probably take lots of pictures with your phone. Organizing thousands of images can feel overwhelming. Apple has tried to makes this a seamless process with the introduction of iCloud and the new Photos app. As convenient as it is to automatically upload all your images to the cloud, Apple\u2019s service […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":19584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[748],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorials","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}