Remember when you had to manually tag every photo in a gallery?

Back in 2019, I was helping my aunt organize about 800 digital photos from a family reunion. Manually naming and tagging everyone was taking forever. I tried a free AI tool called PhotoPrism, which promised to auto-tag faces. I uploaded the whole folder, and after a couple hours, it had sorted almost everyone correctly into groups. It even recognized my cousin's kids from when they were babies. Has anyone else found a good way to handle old photo collections without spending a whole weekend on it?

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jake_martin163mo ago

Manually tagging 800 photos sounds like my own personal hell. I got stuck doing that for my mom's vacation pics once and my eyes started to cross after an hour. The AI getting the baby pictures right is wild, though.

campbell.robin3mo ago

That reminds me of my uncle's endless slideshow nights.

the_thomas26d ago

Slideshows and tagging photos back to back... that's a double feature in the family history channel I'd probably fall asleep through. My own tagging skills are so bad I'd probably label a picture of a dog as "Grandma" and just hope nobody noticed. At least AI can't accidentally mix up my vacation shots with my uncle's 1987 fishing trip... yet.