Rating, journaling and naming your photos

"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and endure a lot." --William Hazlitt



We all have our favorite photos. So why not give them 5 STARS? You can do that with Memory Manager. By giving ratings you can quickly call up all your favorite photos just by a click of the mouse. Like the photo, but not the best one, give it 4 stars and so on. I use my 5 star photos for my scrapbooks and when I'm ready to call them up and print or export to StoryBook Plus, I don't have to scroll thru all the other ones. HOW COOL IS THAT?! So how do you do this? Under Item Details to the right of the screen, simply click on the rating you want to give a picture or group of pictures. It really is that simple.

Have pictures and can't remember why you took them? Try journaling when you upload your photos to help you remember what you wanted capture when you took the picture. It is important to do this as soon as you can, even if it's just a few words. Memory Manager provides you with the perfect opportunity to do this. Under where you rated your picture, there is a box for you to tell the story. Filling this in also gives you an edge when searching for key words. Any words associated with a photo will help narrow any search you may do with words.

Renaming photos can also help with searches but is not necessary. When you snap that picture, your camera stamps that image with a lot of information, a 'name' being one part. Usually it's a series of numbers in a continuous, 'counting' format. If you so chose to change this name, it's in the same area as the rating and journaling box options. Also, if your date stamp in your computer is not correct, you can change that in the same area. Obviously you don't want to have to do this to every picture, so now would be a good time to check the accuracy of your date stamp if you haven't already.