Software which will let me view all photos taken in a certain year?

[blizeH]

Hi,

I've always used Picasa for this, but the date sliders weren't very reliable and the software is now unsupported so I'm looking for a more permanent solution.

 

Each year I like to create a photobook, and my workflow within Picasa was pretty simple:

 

1. Create a view of all photos taken within a specific year
2. Add selected photos to an album
3. Export photos ready to be imported into the photobook software

 

The problem is, I haven't found any software which lets me do this. Windows Explorer within Windows 10 has a lot more functionality but I can't select specific dates. Photoshop isn't built for managing photos, and the Windows 10 Photos app is very limited.

 

Can anyone please recommend some software which will do this? Thank you!

[MikeChipshop Member]

Google Photos? Breaks it down by date automatically. Of course you say Picassa wasn't reliable and i always found it very reliable. Was all your meta information up to date on the images?

[blizeH]

Thanks Mike! Google Photos is a really good idea, though I feel like it could be clunky to have to upload everything then download it? I'm probably overthinking it, but I like the idea of a desktop app.

 

My main problem with Google Photos is that if I delete or edit photos on my computer, it doesn't update them on Google Photos, they just stay the same

[MikeChipshop Member]

Yeah it's more of an archival thing, bloody good at it though. You can link it with your Google Drive account so that all the photos are physically available to you off line on your hard drive, and then use the Google Photos online dashboard to remove photos across the board (including your hard drive).

 

I agree though, uploading everything can be a pain if you're on a limited connection (or have a cap), for example i have a maximum of 0.30MB up, which is painful.

[Dot Matrix]

Windows 10 Photos app can create albums too. I've been using that to create and backup albums to OneDrive.

[Draconian Guppy]

windows 10 can by default create photos album based on year/event

 

https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=organize+photos+windows+10&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

[blizeH]

Thank you all so much for the replies guys. I'm using Lightroom at the moment but finding it pretty overwhelming.

 

Going to try using Windows 10 photos now and it's much simpler, though I can't see an option to create an album based on year

 

Will then use Google Photos as an online backup of sorts, I love the auto awesome stuff they have too

[xendrome]

This is assuming all the photos have the correct data meta data.

[Torolol]

if the photos files are in local storage and it hasn't been tampered,

i would simply use windows search feature to specify the modified date.

[xendrome]

5 minutes ago, Torolol said:

if the photos files are in local storage and it hasn't been tampered,

i would simply use windows search feature to specify the modified date.

Modified date changes every time you touch the file, like rename the filename.

[+virtorio MVC]

You can use Windows Search on the Date Taken field, specifying a date or date range, and then save that search for future use.

[Torolol]

13 minutes ago, xendrome said:

Modified date changes every time you touch the file, like rename the filename.

Thats depend of the OS tho, like this one certainly do not:

D:\LOST>DIR
 Volume in drive D is Data
 Volume Serial Number is 162D-CCF1

 Directory of D:\LOST

08/12/2016  08:04 PM    <DIR>          .
08/12/2016  08:04 PM    <DIR>          ..
01/10/2016  08:45 PM    <DIR>          DwnlData
09/07/2011  08:03 PM                 2 TXT.BIN
               1 File(s)              2 bytes
               3 Dir(s)  119,760,867,328 bytes free

D:\LOST>REN TXT.BIN ADD.TXT

D:\LOST>DIR
 Volume in drive D is Data
 Volume Serial Number is 162D-CCF1

 Directory of D:\LOST

08/12/2016  08:04 PM    <DIR>          .
08/12/2016  08:04 PM    <DIR>          ..
09/07/2011  08:03 PM                 2 ADD.TXT
01/10/2016  08:45 PM    <DIR>          DwnlData
               1 File(s)              2 bytes
               3 Dir(s)  119,760,867,328 bytes free

D:\LOST>

The "09/07/2011" do not changes on rename file operation.

[Torolol]

"Touch" while it wont change the content, did tamper with file attributes directly as it was designed to change the date/time from files

D:\LOST>touch --help
Usage: touch [OPTION]... FILE...
Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time.

  -a                     change only the access time
  -c                     do not create any files
  -d, --date=STRING      parse STRING and use it instead of current time
  -f                     (ignored)
  -m                     change only the modification time
  -r, --reference=FILE   use this file's times instead of current time
  -t STAMP               use MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss] instead of current time
      --time=WORD        access -a, atime -a, mtime -m, modify -m, use -a
      --help             display this help and exit
      --version          output version information and exit

STAMP may be used without -t if none of -drt, nor --, are used.

Report bugs to fileutils-bugs@gnu.ai.mit.edu

D:\LOST>touch 07072016 add.txt

D:\LOST>dir
 Volume in drive D is Data
 Volume Serial Number is 162D-CCF1

 Directory of D:\LOST

08/12/2016  08:04 PM    <DIR>          .
08/12/2016  08:04 PM    <DIR>          ..
07/07/2016  08:16 PM                 2 ADD.TXT
01/10/2016  08:45 PM    <DIR>          DwnlData
               1 File(s)              2 bytes
               3 Dir(s)  119,760,867,328 bytes free

D:\LOST>