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01/17/2005 08:10:05 AM · #1 |
I would like to know, how does you people do this?
Do you store the original photo (whithout processing) and all the procceced one? how do you manage this? using different filenames, directories, any software?
Just curious.
Im just starting to take a LOT of photos... and i have a mess. Im using Gallery (web photo album).
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01/17/2005 08:31:15 AM · #2 |
I create a new folder within a photo folder for each shoot. I also have a folder that I call publish which I use for my challenge photo's once edited.
As these folders grow I will burn all of them onto a CD or DVD and then delete all the ones on the hard drive and start again.
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01/17/2005 08:42:49 AM · #3 |
I start a new folder each month.
And I create a new folder in that folder and name it some relevant name to do with the photos I just downloaded.
For example, the latest folder is called "January 05" and yesterday morning after going out for a photo shoot, I created a new folder called "dpc architecture" and dumped those photos in there.
Within the "dpc architecture" folder, I will sometimes make another two folders one with the "originals" and one with "copies" and I make sure I just work on the copies so as to not accidentally save over an original.
At the start of each month I make a new folder and save the last months folder to cd.
This way I'm current with the back up of my photos and they are being kept in quite good order.
I've only started doing this six months ago.
I wish I had started four years ago though.
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01/17/2005 08:43:46 AM · #4 |
On my hard disk right now I have the following directories
2005
2005/2005_01_01
2005/2005_01_01/RAW <- holds ALL the RAW images straight from camera
2005/2005_01_01/JPG <- holds ALL the jpg images converted from RAW
PSD
PSD/2005 <- holds all the photoshop files (PSD) including the layers
PUB
PUB/2005 <- holds all the jpg images converted and published from the photoshop files
As soon as I have enough to fill a DVD the whole directory structure gets burnt to 2 copies. Then the source files are deleted from hard disk.
Once they are on a DVD I use Extensis Portfolio to index and categorise them.
Hope that helps
Falc
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01/17/2005 08:53:48 AM · #5 |
Under C:
1-Original Photographs by Date >Delete unwanted / Move wanted to folder [2]
2-Original Photographs to Keep >Burn to CD
3-Edited Photographs For Print
3-1-Print Size 1.25:1 >Burn to CD
3-2-Print Size 1:50:1 >Burn to CD
3-3-Print Size Other >Burn to CD
4-DPChallenge Photographs
4-1-Original >Move from folder [2] or CD and place here
4-2-Edited Full Size for Print >Keep for uploads to DCPrints
4-3-Submission Photograph >Upload for Challenge
And then I have other folders for personal portfolio, etc.
Message edited by author 2005-01-17 08:59:20.
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01/17/2005 09:08:01 AM · #6 |
I use iVIew to Catalog, keyword, etc.
On the drive I have something like this
Catalog/2005(whatever the year)/01 Architecture(the month and what shot for)/RAW files(turn into PSD after processing) or PSD files (the Originals (RAW's) I move to an Original file and burn to CD, then to DVD twice, then erase after processed)/Edited
Burn the Processed ones to CD-RW then DVD twice after I have enough to fill. I have those all on an external hard drive that I leave them on for now (backed up to another hard drive of course).
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01/17/2005 10:47:15 AM · #7 |
Each year i burn a cd / dvd
My structure is yearmonthday_name
On each folder i have de originals and some subfolders: /edited and /tests
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01/17/2005 11:26:09 AM · #8 |
I have a directory for each year, and then a subdirectory for each day and then a subdirectory for raw photos under that, looks something like this.
As soon as I transfer the photos from the camera to my computer they get copied to a separate drive, these are my archive copies and I never change them. When I get over 4.4 GB of archive photos they get transferred to a DVD. This way I can get back to the original photos if I ever need to. Once a year or so I make a new backup of of all my photos onto DVDs.
I then use ACDSee to both view and organize my photos.
edit fixed link
Message edited by author 2005-01-17 11:26:52. |
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01/17/2005 11:32:57 AM · #9 |
This confused me at first...how do I organize all this stuff? Should I put partly edited photos here, finals here, blah blah blah?
Here's the system I ended up with by folder name (+ is subfolder):
Archive (Ultimately, this is where all of my non-garbage photos end up, including .psp and smallsize versions of these photos - organized by shoot)
+ January 2005
++ Jan 2 - Mom & Dad
++ Jan 3&4 - Toronto
++ Jan 4 - Early thaw
++ Jan 4 - Sidewalk
++ etc, etc...
+ February 2005
+ March 2005
+ etc, etc...
Photo-A-Day (smallsize duplicates of my PaD project, for easy slideshows)
Portfolio (What I believe is my best work)
Processing (This is sort of a dump folder into which I copy photos I know I'd like to edit very soon - usually only contains about 10 photos at a time)
Stock (Photos I've set aside for stock photography - helps me keep track of where I'm sending what photos)
Street Photos (A separate portfolio of street photography)
I'm normally quite anal about getting stuff organized properly so at first I assumed I should have separate folders for my "out-of-camera" files, my .psp files, my final versions, etc. but I found it's easiest to keep everything together and identify what it is in the name of the file...so there might be 6 IMG_5024 files but each one is together and identified in the file name:
Ex:
IMG_5024 (straight from camera),
IMG_5024 - First Snowfall.jpg (after editing),
IMG_5024 - First Snowfall - small.jpg (small version edited),
IMG_5024 - First Snowfall.psp (photoshop file w/ layers),
IMG_5024 - First Snowfall - revised crop.jpg (different crop),
IMG_5024 - First Snowfall - b&w.jpg (black & white version),
etc.
Also, when I first load the photos onto my computer off of my camera, I just dump them on my desktop...Every few days I clean up the various CANON150, CANON 151, CANON 152, etc. files off of there and organize them into the archives.
Every month I try to burn the archived photos onto cd's...I really need to get a DVD burner. Now that I'm actually taking a reasonable amount of photos (PaD project), I'll have about 1-2GB to archive each month...
Message edited by author 2005-01-17 11:39:30.
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01/17/2005 11:42:09 AM · #10 |
I use iPhoto to do all and more of the archiving I need.
It keeps both original and copies of all the changes I ever made, sorts by year, role, keyword, rating etc.. One click in the search field shows all the photos I took at a specified date or within a range of dates.
Pesonal folders I create (called albums) sort by catagories.
All this is integrated with a host of other functionalities (whatever anyone could conceivably want to do with a photo).
Message edited by author 2005-01-17 11:47:05.
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