Organizing Photos – Windows Movie Maker
If you love to take photos, one of the challenges is what to do with them after you take them. Organizing photos isn’t easy. In the good old days of film photography, we had armloads of photo envelopes from the developer after every trip or event. You could pretty much tell someone’s basic personality by where those prints ended up. Some people just left them in the envelope. Others had great boxes full of happy jumbles of family events and stunning scenery, and the meticulous ones, like my mother had huge albums that could double as an effective weapon in case a burglar broke in. Each one was laboriously labeled with the year and/or subject matter.
Now that we have entered the digital age, the danger is to upload the photos onto the computer to free up space in the camera, and never look at them again. Especially if they aren’t prize winners. Here’s one fun solution. I took a pleasant trip with my daughter to an area all covered with interesting rocks, and explored a cave there as well. None of the photos were that great, but as a set they showed the feeling of the place quite well.
I chose the best ones and uploaded them into Windows Movie Maker. Windows Movie Maker makes it cut and paste simple to add effects, interesting fades from one photo to the next, and music as well. It took only about 10 min. to put together a quick movie that provides an experience much more like being there than one photo could have done. Next time you are ready to start organizing photos you might give Windows Movie Maker a try.