I file everything in a directory by client name and year. On huge
projects involving thousands of images, such as the photo a day
project of my niece, I subdirectory by date.
Until this week I've been burning to cd or dvd but after 2 client job
losses because the dvd didn't burn correctly even though original
checks indicated it did, I decided to back up to a 500 gig LaCie hard
drive with everything sorted by client name.
When I do a job I sort through the original images and select, in
Bridge, those which are my favorites. I give them 5 stars (using
PSCS2). These go to a subdirectory called finals. Once the raws are
converted I put them in a directory called 'rawed' then convert those
to bw which go in a subdirectory called bw. Then I go back thru the
original shoot and look over the ones that didn't make the final cut.
If I see some that should be moved to 'finals', I move them.
Everything that isn't a final is then deleted so my directory
structure looks like this:
Smith2005
BW
Finals
Rawed
This entire folder including subdirectories then gets backed to cd,
dvd or now, the hard drive.
It works for me tho I'm sure some would have a problem pitching those
images which didn't make the cut.
Lea
On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:28 AM, William B. Ellis wrote:
Hi all,
. I'm finding after several 100's/1000's of images, it is becoming
a task to keep them organized and easily accessible. What kind of
file organizing software is being used out there.
Second question is how is everyone filing their disc storage media.
Disc boxes, pouches, individual boxes, a pile of discs on the
floor? I've got several 100 of these and the pile keeps growing.
Thanks for any help,
Bill Ellis
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