Filing In The Digital Camera Age.

[sceadugenga]

The alphabet game has shown me what garbage my filing system is. I can't find anything I want.

Apart from the obvious, like holiday albums, how do you guys file your pics? As in, do you use a system?

[The Vulcan]

Yes - Adobe Lightroom or iPhoto on a Mac etc etc. In fact, any software that enables you to keyword an image acts as a tool for quick location and use. Keywording is the essence to retrieval but a big task if you want to do it properly. I spend absolutely hours keywording/modifying keywords etc .

It's known as DAM - Digital Assett Management

But it's the only way I'm afraid

Edited March 11, 2009 by The Vulcan

[sceadugenga]

Dam.

I'll take a look see.

[baahjun]

lightroom: only use it for filing and renaming, rename the files to date/time, file them in folders on date

then

iview media pro: to view, select, delete the crap and ad tags

works great for me only lightroom is still slow and I wish I could do it all in one go

[The Vulcan]

lightroom: only use it for filing and renaming, rename the files to date/time, file them in folders on date

then

iview media pro: to view, select, delete the crap and ad tags

works great for me only lightroom is still slow and I wish I could do it all in one go

So glad you reminded me about iView Media Pro. 6 months ago it was only available for windows.

Without a doubt the best of the bunch

Cheers for that

p.s. now known as Microsoft Expression Media

Edited March 11, 2009 by The Vulcan

[Tingnongnoi]

the newer version of Lightroom also much improved for editing also

[astral]

The Canon Zoom Browser downloads my photos and automatically files photos according to the date they were taken.

Then I use the Fastone viewer with its thumbnail view to find photos,

assuming I remember approximately when I took them.

[hughden]

Lightroom. Great for cataloguing, great for editing (hardly ever use Photoshop any more), and adequate web and slideshow building facilities, all in one application.

[Kan Win]

I'm with "astral" on this one.

I use Windows Commander 5.11 Professoinal to veiw all my file in all of the drives, create any sub-directories that I wish and then move my photo to year and month.

Having said that, I also use the KISS principle i.e.

Keep It Simple Sceadugenga by having your own web-page for your photos to share around the World like I have on Pbase:-

Kan Win (joined 11-Nov-2003) (pbase supporter)

View Galleries : You have 77 galleries and 2070 images online.

These pages have been viewed a total of 643,013 times. (view full statistics)

Your photos are using 508 Megabytes of storage space.

On average, your photos use 251 KB each.

so no real need for me to carry all my photos with me, just log onto me site and there they all are. Then use I use the "tree view" to see all of my 77 galleries, choose the one I wish to see, click on the gallery and up come the thumbnails. Most of my photos have names under them and dates as well. Easy really

Yours truly,

Kan Win

P.S. I very very rarely post my Original photos

Edited March 12, 2009 by Kan Win

[The Vulcan]

Lightroom. Great for cataloguing, great for editing (hardly ever use Photoshop any more), and adequate web and slideshow building facilities, all in one application.

Interesting statement "Hugh". May I ask? - I'm still using LR v1.4 and use CS3 a GREAT deal in my FILM workflow. Maybe I'm missing something in the latest LR?

What in your experience is the difference between the two?

I find I need CS3 for curves, highlight/shadow adjustments, sharpening and colour correction via PK (I believe now an LR plugin), re-sizing, cloning and spotting, noise reduction (neat image plug-in) channel mixer, perspective adj, barrel/pincushion correction etc.

Does the LR V2 cover these aspects?

I must emphasise that I am really referring to my film workflow which C1 doesn't accomodate. For digital C1 does cover all the above - hence my still being on LR v1.4

Thanks

[hughden]

I'm on LR 2.3. Version 2 has a lot of new features in the develop module.

It does curves, highlight/shadow adjustments, sharpening and colour correction, re-sizing (I store as RAW and output the required sizes in whatever format when required), cloning and spotting, noise reduction. There's a great brush tool where you can brush on sharpness, exposure etc etc, very quick, very useful and non-destructive. Also a new gradient tool. "Clarity" is a powerful new option, like sharpness but quite different in impact.

Here are the panels in the develop module:

[The Vulcan]

Thanks for that "Hugh" - interesting.