digital workflow (not for raw) it's about organizing

[usm]

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Hi!

I'm not sure if this is the wrong place please move it where it should be.

It's about sorting or organizing photographs on the hard disc.

 

Since I started with Photoshop 1.5 I organized my files on the hd more or less by the date.

I learned to put the year/month/day before the name or subject.

For my work as a graphic designer this still works fine.

 

For the photograph thing I think it should be different because:

I have a lot images from family and friends - they are private but they are mixed together with the professional images, sorted in folders by date an event on a hd.

 

Problem: I can easily find images, for example, from a christmas party in 2008. But it is hard to find images from, for example, architecture in the year 2006 because they are in different folders.

I don't wan a use this image libraries from lightroom - I'm not sure about catalogs in captureOne which is my preferred raw-converter.

 

The catalogs from C1 are not touching my hard disc order, so they leave my files where they should be but it is just inside capture1.

Or should I use the IPTC informations/keywords this should work in photoshop or other programs? But not on the system it self. Or using tags in apples mavericks?

 

Also I have a cumulus database with 100.000 files from the archive. I just heard that cumulus canceled the development for the single user version. I somebody using cumulus 8.6 on a apple mavericks computer?

 

May be there is a discussion.

Thanks and greetings.

[esquire53]

Hi,

Yes quite a problem.

I copy from SD to HDD with YYYYMMDD and import to C1 or Aperture and export the files as jpg with low size/resolution and the same folder name.

Now I import those jpg to iPhoto and you have a fast way of looking at the pictures.The only draw back, if the date setting in the exif if different from the folder, the files pop up at a different location.

 

I tried the Media Pro from Phase one with the trial version, but it never convinced me as a decent tool to organize pictures.

 

After that, I just move on and process the pictures in C1 or Aperture

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If you are already using Photoshop why not just use Adobe Bridge and add tags?

 

Steve

[usm]

If you are already using Photoshop why not just use Adobe Bridge and add tags?

 

Steve

 

For the raws I'm using C1. When adding IPTC keywords in bridge they are not showing up in C1 and vice versa.

[Dougg]

My file management system is an outgrowth of what I used in the 1960's with film. Then I had a 4x6 file card for each roll with information about the gear, the subject, the processing, and the disposition. The same file number went on the page holding the negatives, and I'd make a contact sheet, both these pages going into 3-ring binders.

 

With the advent of a computer in the 80's, the file cards were transcribed onto records in a database... which of course is searchable for data and descriptive text.

 

I continue this "roll-based" arrangement with digital files. Each card or project or day's take is considered a "roll" and gets its record in the database. The database substitutes for adding tags or keywords in LR. The raw photo files are given date-based roll and frame numbers (as an aid to this I reset the camera's frame numbering just before formatting the card), then the raw files go into folders named with matching roll numbers for easy sorting. All this before they see LR. So I'm using the Mac's Finder for file management, just what it was made for!

 

Full-size TIFF files output from LR go into a subfolder with the raw files, the basis for printing and scaled jpegs. Selected jpegs of upload size go into one huge folder, where they are made visible with the browser feature of GraphicConverter, a capable editing tool itself.

 

So, through time-tested methods and inertia, I don't use any other specific file management software... trying to keep it relatively simple!

 

Doug

Edited January 30, 2014 by Dougg

[kdriceman]

Hi!

 

I'm not sure if this is the wrong place please move it where it should be.

 

It's about sorting or organizing photographs on the hard disc.

 

 

 

Since I started with Photoshop 1.5 I organized my files on the hd more or less by the date.

 

I learned to put the year/month/day before the name or subject.

 

For my work as a graphic designer this still works fine.

 

 

 

For the photograph thing I think it should be different because:

 

I have a lot images from family and friends - they are private but they are mixed together with the professional images, sorted in folders by date an event on a hd.

 

 

 

Problem: I can easily find images, for example, from a christmas party in 2008. But it is hard to find images from, for example, architecture in the year 2006 because they are in different folders.

 

I don't wan a use this image libraries from lightroom - I'm not sure about catalogs in captureOne which is my preferred raw-converter.

 

 

 

The catalogs from C1 are not touching my hard disc order, so they leave my files where they should be but it is just inside capture1.

 

Or should I use the IPTC informations/keywords this should work in photoshop or other programs? But not on the system it self. Or using tags in apples mavericks?

 

 

 

Also I have a cumulus database with 100.000 files from the archive. I just heard that cumulus canceled the development for the single user version. I somebody using cumulus 8.6 on a apple mavericks computer?

 

 

 

May be there is a discussion.

 

Thanks and greetings.

 

 

I don't have C1, but I do have Lightroom. You can tell LR to leave your files right where they are, leave the names alone and still have it catalog all the files. The organization can be done at the LR level without altering the files. Even if you don't tag them you will still be able to use the EXIF/Metadata to sort, arrange, find etc. And if you decide to go in and tag them you have even more power to organize them.

 

It would seem that C1 could do the same. LR is such a powerful file management system and will do it without altering the file or the location if you want. I don't see any reason not to use something like this.

 

 

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