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To sort your Sony Alpha images, I recommend changing the folder name option (in the Settings 2 Menu) to Date Form, so that a new folder is created for each day you take pictures. Then you can just grab that batch and copy it to a folder on your hard drive, with no intervention from software at all. If you have a Windows computer, the Picture Motion Browser will do it all for you. I just sort mine in folders by day, in a larger folder by year. If you want greater control, just create subfolders under the year and name it with the number of the month followed by the event-something like “ 04-Birthday ” for all the birthday pictures in April. There are dozens of programs designed to better sort your images and make cataloging and retrieval easier. One of the best is also a great photo editor with professional pedigree: Adobe Photoshop Elements 6, available at www.adobe.com . Be careful what you pick, though, because programs change and companies go out of business. The last thing you want is to have your images spread across several programs that promised to organize your collection.
