All my backup is to DVD. One set for my house and one set stored
remotely. I also keep all my keepers on an external hard disc
attached to my home computer, and a mirrored set of 4x6xscreen
resolution jpgs on the computer hard drive itself. Jpegs are
extracted from the completely adjusted, keyworded and captioned
keepers as part of the image workflow.
This system has grown like topsy, and has many irregularities still.
For the last two weeks I have been going through my slides and
negatives and expanding the keywording and captioning in their
corresponding digital files, especially the date of creation. Having
the date embedded in the XMP file for each image helps me locate the
original piece of film when someone needs a higher quality file than
I current have. Having extensive keywords for each image makes it
easy to use the Search features of the MacOS to locate the file.
Along the way I keep two permanent folders on the desktop - one for
originals and one for keepers - which I fill as I acquire new images.
When they reach DVD size they get burnt and I discard the originals
and move the keepers to the external drive.
At the present moment I have been going through all the keepers in
Bridge correcting their color space. Fortunately years ago I set up
a Photoshop Action to open a file and resave it as a tif. I no
longer recall why I created that Action but it sure is useful for
this stage of bringing my keepers into uniformity.
The deeper keywording is definitly going to be the worse part. A
nice task for cold winter days!
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Emily L. Ferguson
mailto:elf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
508-563-6822
New England landscapes, wooden boats and races
http://www.landsedgephoto.com
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