In my humble opinion it is not a good idea in the long run to use descriptive terms like "family album" in folder names. That's what keywords are for in the first place. I think it better to use the folder names to establish chronology only. Hierarchical keywords is a blessing. :-) Jostein
Boris Liberman <bori...@gmail.com> wrote: >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 >> -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
