Sorting Digital Images

A full day of recording rock art will create several hundred images. Organizing the images imvolves uploading the images from your camera media, rotating those that require rotating, sorting the images by cluster/panel or other category, selecting the images to be used for computer recording, creating backup copies, and transmitting or uploading the images to the DigitalRockArt application.

Performing these tasks requires both digital camera and computer expertise as well as the software to do the job. You may have received software with your digital camera, operating system (Windows, Apple OS/X, or Linux), purchased specialized software, or downloaded open source software from the internet.

This page describes the tasks and software that may be used on a Windows based computer. If you have are familar with alternative software that will do the job, you should use whatever alternative application you are comfortable with.

It is assumed you have recorded a rock art site using the DigitalRockArt form and have several hundred images on your camera media that are in no particular order, and only a few of the images have cluster number data within the image.

Alternative Software

You may wish to find and download free copies of these software packages. Some of these packages may have both free and commercial versions. In general, this will all be lightly used and the free versions have all the capability that is required.

Irfanview:: If you have Windows/XP and are familar with the Windows Image and Fax viewer, this is the adult version. It has similar ease of use but much more capability.

Upload the Camera Media to the PC