From: Boris Liberman
On 10/5/2010 8:54 AM, Bob W wrote:
> in general you'll find things easier if you keep everything in one folder
> and use keywords and collections to organise things within LR. This is the
> approach I take (LR creates date folders for me as I import, but since I
> never look into the photo folder using the OS they might as well not be
> there). Some people do use a small number of folders, say 2 or 3, for
> large-scale workflow separation and that seems to work ok, but whenever I've
> heard of people using many folders it's been because they've got themselves
> into a sticky mess and need help getting out of it.
>
> Bob
Right. But the stickiness of the mess may be different from instance to
instance. Personally, I organize my stuff in folders in such a way that
if tomorrow LR goes banana (or orange, or even tomato), I still will
have some notion of what is where. So I have a structure something like:
\Family Album\
\year
\year-month
\Travel
\Tel Aviv
\year-month-day
\Jerusalem
\year-month-day
\International Travel
\London 2005
\Norway 2006
\Belgium 2008
\Unsorted
\year-month-day <-- from where stuff will get moved accordingly
and so on. Never had any stickiness problems, me... And LR makes
folder/file management pretty straightforward as well.
Boris
I use the OS to copy images from the card to the computer.
Organizationally, I think I keep it pretty simple
\Photography\
\2010_Photography\
\20101006_descriptor_whatever_I_was_doing\ - PEF files
\working\ - PSD files
\output\ - JPEG files
I have a TRANSFER directory that I bring the files into and use Bridge
to batch rename them [K20D-nnnnn, K10D-nnnnn, ...] and update the
metadata with Copyright and any keywords.
I also use Bridge to create the directory, load the files into it and
move it into the hierarchy.
I do all this before culling the duds because I find it helps me keep
track of how high a percentage of good images I'm getting, which in my
case is necessary reinforcement.
I find it's a good idea to wait awhile before culling the duds so that
my emotional attachment to them has time to subside, and I can be more
objective in editing.
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