I need to organize medical photos. They are pre-op and post-op photos. What is the best way to organize them. should I use iphoto or is that too much trouble.

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I need to organize medical photos. They are pre-op and post-op photos. What is the best way to organize them. should I use iphoto or is that too much trouble.

I need to organize medical photos. They are pre-op and post-op photos. What is the best way to organize them? should I use iphoto or is that too much trouble? Since they occur on different days, organizing by event does not seem appropriate. Also, organizing by face is not always possible as some are close up photos of an individual eye. Surely, this has been done before, and I don't want to spin my wheels reinventing this.

iPhoto '11, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Jun 10, 2013 9:10 AM

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Yer_Man

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Jun 10, 2013 9:19 AM in response to Jambo57

Who can tell with that amount of information to work with?

iPhoto is not limited to Events or Faces as organizational tools - Albums, Keywords, various forms of metadata can be leveraged for use as well, and these are often more flexible. Really it's up to you to look at the tools available and see if they suit your usage scenario.

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Jambo57 Author

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Jun 10, 2013 12:17 PM in response to Yer_Man

Terence, thanks for your reply.

Example: patient m123 has 5 photos on one date. One month later they have five more photos.

Can I organize them by patient ID number? I'm not sure what field to put that in. It doesn't make sense to have this by album as thousands of albums may be hard to manage. Is anyone out there using iPhoto's for pre & post surgical photo organization?

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Jambo57 Author

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Jun 10, 2013 12:18 PM in response to Jambo57

Correction: pre & post surgical

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Yer_Man

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Jun 10, 2013 12:22 PM in response to Jambo57

You could use the patient ID as a keyword or part of a title. The a search using a Smart Album will find them all. But really, only you can answer these questions for yourself.

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