How do you organise your Scanned Stamp images?

Well organised! tobben63     Good idea for a new thread

Nowadays I am too busy creating and populating DYI pages, so not much scanning done of single stamps. However I did it earlier, and plan to do it again for certain older stamps. I name each scan individually based on year and catalog number so that the scans appear in a logical sequence, like Tobben did  for his date-stamps:



To reduce the time needed for scanning single stamps, I am currently simply taking photos of entire album pages, and keep them available on skydrive for later reference and available from anywhere. This can be useful at auctions etc when looking at purchasing more stuff. The pages are named individually so that they appear in a logical manner:



For the files structure itself, I am reorganizing my file structure in parallell with reorganizing my WW collection. Earlier all countries etc were simply sorted into albums and folders from A-Z:



However (as explained IN THIS THREAD )  I am reorganising my WW collection and therefore also the file-structure into Continents and Regions. The new file structure is thus changed into a multiple layer structure: 
- Continents
- Regions
- Countries
- Countries Sub folders

 One of those sub-folders are dedicated for photos/scans etc, as plotted below

I scan images of stamps typically only for the purpose of posting on a website like this one so I have a lot of them on a jump drive that I periodically reformat so I can add more images. Out of curiosity what are your reasons for scanning and saving images of the stamps in your collections? I guess I am wondering if this is something I should or want to do.

darkormex - Speaking for myself - I started scanning single stamps solely for using the scans to create 'digital collections' on virtual album papers (pages that never existed in real life).

I am saving images of my album pages on skydrive for several purposes:
- Easy accessible for reference when considering to buy more stuff
- I am working offshore (=far away from home) so convenient to have my collection 'available' remotely
- Just in case the worst should happen - loss by fire or robbery etc - images are good for insurance
- My main trading partner (my brother) can access my images and see if he need to hang on to his own duplicates to fill holes in my collection 
- convenient to have images readily available for participating and sharing examples in this forum

All great "personal ways" to inventory - I keep 3 backups of my WW inventories, 1 on my HD, 1 on a USB Key, 1 in the cloud backup.

The majority of my images are reference information. I have not got to the point where I scan album pages or individual stamps except when I am posting something. I do plan to scan later this year.

For any reference information, I use Microsoft OnnNote to organize the information. OneNote, like Evernote, will automatically OCR any images so text in images can be found via a search. OneNote uses notebook like aspects with groupings like notebooks, sections, pages, and sub-pages. It also can store documents as attachment and with preview.  This is a view of page from a notebook. Of course, there is an mobile version of OneNote (OneDrive stored on OneDrive) so can access from anywhere.  You also have a browser add on to get screen clips (article, region, whole page). The page below was obviously clipped from another forum and never revised the title.

"How much time does it take as part of your overall work on stamps"

Answering for myself, only taking images of complete pages, I would say less than 1% of the time.
The advantage of doing complete pages is that the stamps are readily identified and one can see the entire series, years etc. I hardly ever buy single stamps anyway, too many holes to fill!!!

This is a very useful thread. Thank you, everybody!
I scanned primarily my maxicards, per country: USA1.jpeg,..., USA800.jpeg, etc.
Ideally, I would have time to index the same worldwide maxicard collection, but with other titles/tags, such as Tiger1,..., Tiger50, etc.
Occasionally, I scan other interesting items from my collections.

I can see also that by scanning the page, I have the option later of cropping out individual stamps if I decide to organize myself that way in the future.

My screenshot above also tells me, third item from the bottom, that the very elusive candle label from Netherlands (?) posted elsewhere here, was screenshot saved by me, and re-posted as a "can you ID this?" on PhilaSeiten.de (PS in my filename) on my favorite German-language forum.  

This helps remind me where items were posted by me or others; I include "NOT MINE" somewhere in the filename if it's, you guessed it, NOT MINE!!!!! Or "I bid...(price)" if I have hopes of winning some sort of auction item.  Saves me the embarrassment of posting the same item twice, years apart.  Done that, but no more!!!!!