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Digital workflow?
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With about 2,000 images now on my hard drive, I’ve decided it’s time to get organised. While this will involve a purge (of Stalinist proportions), I’m still left with looking for the best means of organising the remaining files, and I’d be interested to hear how other people do it. I know you can tag with PhotoShop (or Paint Shop Pro in my case), but what I’m really thinking about is how people organise their folders and the path, or life-cycle, of an image from camera to hard disk to post-processing to printing/upload to PI/Flickr/whatever.
Input appreciated!
Paul
Mine goes something like this:
Import to Lightroom from the card (don’t move, copy, etc)
Filter through the images and remove the non-usable or rubbish images from the card
Remove the catalogue from Lightroom once this is done and then import to my photo hard drive by moving the images
I also create an identical path as below on an external HD
I catalogue by year primarily
I then breakdown to sub folders for Location, Sport, Event, Personal, Studio or others if required
I then create a sub folder again based on a title familiar with the parent folder, for eg, Wexford for Location, Cycling for sport, Smoke for Still Life or whatever fits best at the time.
I then rename all images with a header, and date and image number, for eg “Wexford_23-Mar-2009_001”
On import to Lightroom I apply general keywords then go through the catalogue to add particular keywords to help search afterwards.I will process in Lightroom and leave them there until I need to export as a print, or web image.
If I have to go to PS I will save a copy in Lightroom to help source it and now also copy a backup version on the external HD (after I lost 1 years worth!).There are other catalogue software tools out there such as Microsoft Expression Media or Picassa (free) that will do similar for you.
Alan.
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