If you are more of a visual person and would like to organize your folders and files using different colors, than check it out how to use color labels in Mac OS X.
Photograph files taken with a digital camera also carry certain Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF) data where you can see the camera settings that were set when the photo was taken.
If you want to make a clean install of the new OS X Mavericks or even the older versions of Mac OS X, than I strongly suggest you to create a bootable OS X key or a drive.
Without too much fuss, Apple released a new version of its OS X operating systems for Mac computers. The great thing about it is, that it's completely free for the existing Mac OS X users.