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How would you sort 20000 unrelated pictures?


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I've accrued around 20000 images of internet randomness, and their disparate file names have finally triggered my OCD. I'm at a complete loss at a practical structure and method for batch sorting and renaming them. My lazy inclination is to rename by creation date, but after meeting people who sort their porn by color and emotion (don't ask) and others with too much time sorting their image collection by subject (i.e. img \bears \ bear tongue \beartonguelong.jpg ), I feel like I should... do better.

If no exiting program can automate this, I think I'm going to have to write or try to convince my developer friend to write a script to determine the RGB value of each picture and rename them as RGB scales so I can search them by rough color ranges. i.e. R24G10B01.jpg for all images with R240-249, G100-109, B 10-19. Maybe too much work for something like this. Either way, I'm just polling to see if there's any organization structures for random pictures I'm not thinking of.

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For those inquiring, apart from occasional inspiration / reference for design work, they get played as a random slideshow in my living room. Juxtaposition of design, photography, cats, funnies, boobs, boob design, photography of boobs and funny boobs is a hit with the guests. And thanks for the offer remixedcat, I'll make a two button keyboard for Angel with BOOBS and GTFO, but I imagine she'd sort all the cat erotica into the BOOBS folder.

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How would you sort 20000 unrelated pictures?

I've accrued around 20000 images of internet randomness

I wouldn't, they are already sorted on the internet.....kinda good place to leave them

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I did this with 13,000 images. I used a database program. You can use iphoto, acdsee, picasa, what ever. I use ACDSee. I do not use a folder stucture. I use a database. So when I want to find something. It is tagged. It took many hours to fix but when it was done. BANG so easy to find what i want now.

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  1. Upload the images to a webserver.
  2. Write a script to access Google's Custom Search API and search by image, you can use this for free 100 times a day (alternatively you can get 1,000 requests for $5, max of 10,000 a day).
  3. Look for a familiar result; use results from typical image hoarding websites that you can grab a tag off. If no familiar results found mark to tag manually.
  4. Set up a cron job to run the script once a day for 200 days.

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Ok here is a more complete reply.

I used http://www.myphotoindex.com/ this works great and is a stand alone software. Not updated in a while but works good for tagging and making a database of tags for your stuff. Like I said I did this for 10s of thousands of my photos. I use for reference or inspiration. this software worked great for me then i moved to ACDSEE Pro and use the database and keywords there. This way at least the keywords can be seen in lightroom and windows if I decide to change software.

How I tag. Example: This is short list. I do everything from color, ethnic, theme, body type, body parts, clothing, etc. 20k of images will take you weeks and many hours but worth it if you look through your collection often and try to search.

*Color

-- black

-- blue

-- red

--etc

*Model

-- legs

-- eyes

-- boobs

-- etc

*Props

--guitar

--teddy bear

--etc

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I did a simple average colour + HSL sort once on a folder full of random images (a thumbnail service). It could be done much better (interesting colour vs. average colour for starters), but it worked pretty well.

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