Kodak Archiving
Tomorrow is May 16, and that is the last day I can move photos from my KodakGallery archive and storage account or they will be deleted. For the last year or so I have submitted photos from my Kodak Easyshare camera to the online account resource using the software. But to choose what to archive and what to download from a body of photography work in files ranging over a year is a time consuming task.
Going through the files made me think how much more I wanted from a file storage utility account. The KodakGallery required me to buy a sum of products purchase in exchange for storage. But it just so happened I had started another one for a client. The problem was, as much as I liked many of the groups, only some of the images really made any sense for me to keep. Various projects had finished, Â either the final stage of completion or various clients had no need for any further stock images.
So, it is left for me to go through the albums one by one. I remembered the day trips I had taking all these different suites of images. I remembered the pathways I traveled to get those shots. And now I had to decide just like King Solomon which babies would live. I didn’t have time to download each high resolution image and resize it. And I didn’t want to tax my new laptop and its operational functions by exploding its memory storage capacity.
Now would have been a good time for some of those tags attached to the images for sorting. Just tabbing through the images to see which ones I wanted to keep took more time than I could afford.  If there is anyone who doesn’t know the difference between a tag and a keyword, it’s that the tag is what the author uses to search images and arrange them for sorting. It allows for easy organization in folders for ftp download and publishing.
The archive task cannot be ignored. For situations like the above, a few tags blanket applied to groups of uploads would have eased the pain and simplified the task. Working the KodakGallery utility is very memory intensive. Multi-tasking a full size image resolution gallery is impossible. Â But the full size resolution is what microstock sites demand. Learn my lesson, tag and minimize vefore storing.
