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06/15/2003 09:19:00 AM · #1 |
I was just wondering how people are managing all those pictures...
do you folder them by dates? - do you rename them by date and put them in one folder?
or maybe nothing by dates?
personally, I take every photosession and put compress it in a .rar file, that makes my backup before I post progress anything...
I would like to heare if someone has a good "system" on his/hers files...
just a thought...
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06/15/2003 10:02:58 AM · #2 |
| I set my camera to never reset the file name, so each of my photo taken with this camera will not accidentally over-write any previous photos. However, I sort them by date taken. This is automatically done by the bundled software, so I just keep to it. |
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06/15/2003 10:09:44 AM · #3 |
Eveybody is searching for a good one. I have folder by date with the main topic in the name. After 6 months group them by months (the date folders in the month).
In each of my folder I have a subfolder called 'base' than contains the image straight from the cam. It's convenient to work on them and find them but not easy becasue you mix good and bad. I am thinking of a duplicate structure 'worked' images and 'base' image.
I do not think it's a good idea to compress for archiving, you cannot really do better than jpg or raw ot tiff (with the compress option) and there is a risk to lose all the archive. I think it's better to always be able to access each file individuall. Plus cataloging system might work better (but it's secondary).
I archive on 2 different external hard drive and thinking about a DVD burner.
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06/15/2003 10:23:00 AM · #4 |
My folders are by shooting date and pic are by number (all done by the camera software). I keep the psd files in the same directory where i attach a 'helpful' name to the number. My final output are in their specific destination directories (my websites, portfolio x, etc).Then i store them on a CD for backup. Also just started with a little notebook where, by date and subject of shooting session, i make a few shorthand notations (by pic number) of some of the images that i really like to remember. Do this because i use pics a lot for photoshop digital art .
All in all, not a satisfactory system and by this winter i will be drowning and looking forever to find that specific picture that i want to use for something. Understand there's a very good program, called Portfolio i believe, that cost a few hundred dollars. At some point, that will be a worthwhile investment but for right now i spend my photog budget on more critical things. |
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06/15/2003 12:18:08 PM · #5 |
I have a folder "Image Libray One" to hold all my original photos and videos. I download all my photos into subdriectories, in my "Image Libray One" directory, named by the Date Downloaded (which is done by software).
If I am going to edit the picture I copy them from this subdirectory to a separate appropriately named folder (subject name), like "DPC Liquid", where I rename/edit the photos. I always keep the unaltered original photo in the "Image Library One" directory.
Every now and then I back everything up to CDR.
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06/15/2003 12:19:59 PM · #6 |
I have CompuPic 6.2: //www.photodex.com/products/compupic/windows/features.html
I download from the camera into a "DOWNLOADS 2003" folder by adding a subfolder identifiable by date or name ("Memorial Day Weekend," etc.).
Then in CompuPic, I run a slide show of what was in the camera, and quickly delete the ones that are really trash and rename and move the ones I want to post-process right away into into other specific folders. I keep everything else in the "DOWNLOADS" folder for possible future use.
CompuPic has pretty decent editing tools, which makes it very easy to play with an image a little to see if I want to work with it further.
It also has tools I really love -- for instance, you can rotate multiple images all at once while they're in thumbnail view.
Mostly I love it because I can see all the images I have on file pretty instantly. I love keeping it open while I work in Photoshop since I tend to make 5 or 6 versions of the same image while I'm working and it's just plain easier to view them altogether in CompuPic than in Photoshop.
CompuPic costs $40 -- there's a CompuPic Pro for $80, but I don't see anything in the product description that would make it worth the extra money to me:
//www.photodex.com/products/pro/features.html
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06/15/2003 01:30:41 PM · #7 |
I use iPhoto //www.apple.com/iphoto/, which comes bundled with every Mac. I use it for auto-importing, organizing. viewing, editing, archiving, sharing, burning directly from iPhoto, slideshows and exporting into movies.
iPhoto saves all the information you have about each photo, including date, album (either folders or books), film roll, keywords and comments. I have as many folders as there are (sensibly) categories of pictures. Once I've archived/burnt photos, I can view them in iPhoto by inserting the disc they?re archived on, and the disc appears in iPhoto as a library with all my albums, titles, keywords and comments intact. I can search through my archived library and find and share photos just as I can in iPhoto.
I generally keep under 1,000 photos within the app and burn anything in excess of that on CD. My photo CD's are sorted by date.
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06/15/2003 02:03:31 PM · #8 |
I store them in a directory until there is enough for a CD, then I make 2 CDs (One for home, and an offsite copy at work). Then I move them to another directory on the hard drive and start deleting everything that I probably won't want.
Not a great system, but it works for me. They end up on a CD by date.
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06/15/2003 02:37:25 PM · #9 |
| I'll put in another word for iPhoto by Apple. Internally, it stores all photos in folders organized by date. Individual "Albums" are folders with a collection of links to the photos. These are UNIX symbolic links, similar to "shortcuts" in Windows. This makes it easy to find photos outside iPhoto. |
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06/15/2003 02:43:23 PM · #10 |
I set my camera so it doesn't reset the file naming every time I remove images from the stick. I store all the unedited images out of the camera in one folder, special events/shoots in subfolders if necessary and then I have a 'formatted finished photos' folder where I store the edited, final .jpgs.
Burn to CD every month or so.
James.
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06/15/2003 03:29:34 PM · #11 |
I create a folder with the name of the event and date and then copy all of the original images into that. Then inside of that folder I create a new folder named 'Edited'. Using ACDSee for my viewer I view all of my originals and as I see ones that I really like I copy those to the Edited folder. Then I go into PS and work on the photos in the edited folder and just keep them at their original size. If I want to resize a photo for a specific use, such as Dpchallenge, then I will create another folder for that inside the main folder. With this method I have the untouched originals and any edited versions in the same main folder. I normally keep all the photos with their numerical identifiers so that it makes it very easy to go back and find an original photo if I want to re-edited the iamge again and plus it keeps all the photos in chronilogical order. I currently have an old computer with a very small hard drive so it is necessary to back up quite often. On the front of the CD's I write each folder name so it is easy to find a particular event. In addition to that I have a separate folder title 'Best Photos' that contain subfolders named 'Action-Sports', 'Family-Portraiture', 'Animals-Wildlife' and etc where I copy the best photos into the corresponding categories for easy finding and viewing. I have currently only been burning one CD for backup because my burner is slow but eventually I will probably be making more than one copy just to be safe. Fortunately the best photos are usually in a few different places so they end up on more then one CD. It's not the best but it works for me.
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06/15/2003 07:47:36 PM · #12 |
timj, i used to have folders with specific subjects. It made it a lot easier when i was doing digital art six months later and would be looking for an image that would make a great background or would be a nice addition to a composite image. Unfortunately, with the new G3 i have been so busy shooting that i haven't even found the time to process all that i wanted to, let alone create very usable folders, i.e. not having to waste a lot of time looking for that suitable image that i might have taken way back when and that i sorta vaguely remember. As i said, i will be drowning by this winter.
My PIE demo expired recently and was wondering whether to subscribe (other than giving me Exif data PIE didn't do all that much for me) or just buy ACDSee. What are the main benefits of ACDSee? Hope someone responds since i need to buy something really quick. |
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06/15/2003 07:51:11 PM · #13 |
I open a new folder every month and place a number in front of it.
12 June
13 July
That way it's always in chronological order.
Then create a new folder for every upload "June 01 -- add a good description of content"
I've found this method very effective to locate files.
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06/15/2003 08:05:29 PM · #14 |
I'm paranoid about losing files so here's my process...
1. Download all files to my xdrive. Rename default download folder to date when photos were taken.
2. Copy files from xdrive to a dated folder in My Pictures.
3. Use ACDSee to batch rename the numbered files from the camera to include the date and time the photo was taken.
4. Adjust using PS7. Save to a descriptive folder (i.e. Pansy or Minerals). I maintain the number/date portion of the file name and add a descriptive name to the front.
5. Save completed and un-retouched files to cd-rom every couple of days.
6. Make back-up of cd at the end of the month and delete files from the hard drive (my xdrive actually has more room on it than my hard drive does).
I intend to buy a fire safe in which I plan to keep my cd backups. I just haven't done it yet. Maybe when I get paid at the end of the month.
Shari
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06/15/2003 10:03:27 PM · #15 |
Well, actually i also do as Jacko does by opening a new folder every so often, in which i store the folders by date. So, i have chronological and chronological. At this point it shouldn't be too hard yet to add descriptive names to the by shooting-date folders for the G3.
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06/15/2003 10:55:24 PM · #16 |
Two quick add-ons to everyone above:
1. I title folders by event, since the EXIF data can be used to sort by date if necessary later. Using dates to title folders becomes redundant.
2. I partition a portion of my Hard Drive (10GIGs usually) only for data. In the event of a crash, I know all I have to do is clone that partition and recover anything I haven't burned to DVD.
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06/15/2003 11:43:02 PM · #17 |
One answer:
Archive Creator
//www.pictureflow.com/ArchiveCreator/Pages/AC-Main.html
The fact that it writes an HTML-browseable (and therefore useable on just about any computer) photo gallery/index on each disc in the archive set is total gravy... it does all the other "required" things like spanning archives across multiple CDs/DVDs, supporting RAW images, etc. |
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06/15/2003 11:46:57 PM · #18 |
| I manage my photos much like I manage my other affairs in my life. Almost randomly! So my desk, office and home are usually cluttered, exciting places to explore! |
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06/16/2003 09:10:37 AM · #19 |
Originally posted by pedromarlinez:
Two quick add-ons to everyone above:
1. I title folders by event, since the EXIF data can be used to sort by date if necessary later. Using dates to title folders becomes redundant. |
Ahh, but my editors eat EXIF, so that would only work for my raw pics (and that, only for raw pics since I found out that EXIF existed - before that, if I rotated it, the EXIF is gone), not for my edited websized or printsized stuff.
Therefore, I rename with year, month, day, an ordinal (like 10 for the tenth shot of the day), and a descriptive word or title. I then store the big raw stuff that I've looked at and edited (if I want to, if it isn't crap) and the stuff I've decided I'm not going to make an edited version of in a separate subdirectory. All the stuff that's worth editing and done being edited goes both in a directory on my hard drive and in my online dump/portfolio on my website. In theory I will sometime make gallery HTMLs of thumbnails and suchlike. In practice I haven't gotten around to that, much. :->
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06/16/2003 10:34:46 AM · #20 |
Originally posted by eloise:
Originally posted by pedromarlinez:
Two quick add-ons to everyone above:
1. I title folders by event, since the EXIF data can be used to sort by date if necessary later. Using dates to title folders becomes redundant. |
Ahh, but my editors eat EXIF, so that would only work for my raw pics (and that, only for raw pics since I found out that EXIF existed - before that, if I rotated it, the EXIF is gone), not for my edited websized or printsized stuff.
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Really? I've never heard of that. Let me know what editors you use so I can avoid them. :)
P |
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06/16/2003 11:01:57 AM · #21 |
Originally posted by pedromarlinez:
Originally posted by eloise:
Ahh, but my editors eat EXIF, so that would only work for my raw pics (and that, only for raw pics since I found out that EXIF existed - before that, if I rotated it, the EXIF is gone), not for my edited websized or printsized stuff.
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Really? I've never heard of that. Let me know what editors you use so I can avoid them. :) |
I don't know which ones *don't*, other than Photoshop. I use ACDSee almost exclusively.
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