Chiming in with a bit (*) of delay...
I see there were a storage strategy discussion here. I should point out
the obvious - there is no reason of not using very helpful features of
LR such as keywords and there is no sense in overdoing it either.
Namely, if you try to come up with all possible keywords for each photo,
chances are you won't be consistent from day to day or from month to
month and hence the outcome will be a mess.
Here is a suggestion for you.
I have two hierarchies. One is on disk file system like so:
\<basic category>\<sub category>\<date-time based sub-structure>. Real
life examples:
* \Family Album\2010\2010-08 - and therein are all photos that I've
taken on that month of that year where family members can be seen.
* \Travel\Jerusalem\2012\2012-03-10 - probably self-explanatory already
* \International Travel\Rachel Sullivan in Israel\Galia\2011-05-10 - I
have decided that the guests from abroad equal us going there but I may
split \International Travel to \International Travel and \International
Guests. Here we have photos made by Galia on a given date when Rachel
came for a visit.
Anyway, the classification is basic and always ends with date-time based
sub-structure so that given a date, I can quite easily find what I need.
Additionally, LR has wonderful feature where you can browse your
collection by virtually any data item that your photos have - date,
time, aperture, camera, lens, rating, flag status - you name it, LR has it.
Obviously there are photos that answer more than one criteria - e.g. my
girls while traveling abroad. Here come keywords. 99% of my keywords
denote persons and places. The remaining 1% is wherever photos were
uploaded, given to someone or chosen for publication. I organize my
keywords in tree-like structure (it is really very easy, you either drag
and drop or indicate the upper level keyword, when you create a new one
(**) ).
Unfortunately I started with that system having shot several tens of
thousands photos hence I still have a good chunk of assigning keywords
to do.
Still, I am offering this as a possible answer to your question, Walt.
Hope it helps.
(*) I think it is more like 128 bit of delay... :-)
(**) Whenever I create a new keyword, I immediately go to the "Keywords
List" screen (on the right hand side in Gallery module) and find a
proper way in the keyword tree for the new keyword.
On 9/26/2012 12:38 AM, Walt wrote:
Hi all!
Finally, after years of using Picasa, IrfanView and a few Photoshop
plugins, I finally decided to break down and get some decent image
editing software for my new setup. It's definitely going to take a while
to get comfortable with it. I've checked out a few of the tutorial
videos at the Adobe website, which were reasonably helpful, and wonder
if anyone can suggest some others that would be worth taking a look at.
Any suggestions, tips, and/or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
-- Walt
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