On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've basically set up my folders the way you describe -- I followed the > recommendations for naming and organizing folders in one of the other > articles on your site -- except that I don't have the "in-progress" folder at > the top of each year. As I understand that, you're recommending an > "in-progress" folder immediately under the folder for each year, with > original files place in folders immediately under that. > > I'm curious about the purpose of the "in-progress" folder. Is it to keep > original files separate from information related to editing of originals and > edited copies? In my year by year folders, I have "in-progress", "completed", "business", "miscellaneous" and other subfolders. All original files are organized under the 'in-progress" into date-stamped subfolders, and my default working catalog manages that folder's contents. That's the catalog context in which I do all my image editing, annotation, etc. When I'm finished with an image/a set of images/etc, I *always* export them to a set of full resolution, 16bit-per-channel TIFF files which are organized into the "completed" tree. Another Lightroom catalog, called "Completed_Works" manages those folders, year by year, so that I can quickly and easily find all completed projects and products. No image editing goes on in this catalog, it's there to simply find and occasionally print the finished, rendered master files quickly and easily. The image file workflow goes from card to yyyy/inprogress/subfolder-bydate (Working Default catalog) to yyyy/completed/YYNNN-named_project (Completed_Work catalog). (The business paperwork workflow goes into a Client subfolder of the year's "business" folder by client name, and aliases link back to the exported files and the individual clients' year by year folders.) This way all my year-by-year work is organized into distinct trees and I can purge years off the working disk in modular steps as I need to make space for new work. The years are then accessed through backup archive #1 when needed. It's a system that I've developed and works for me ... and subject to change as I find better ways of working. ;-) It's documented on http://www.gdgphoto.com/articles in the #07 note. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
