On Jun 20, 2006, at 12:11 AM, Jostein wrote: > Folder structure is the basic element of my solution. All the > RAW-files goes into one folder structure The names of the folders and > the organisation is down to personal taste, of course. I prefer a > simple date-based setup like this: > > <RawFiles> > <year> > <quarter> > <date>-keyword (example: 20060620-gardenShots) > <date>-keyword > <quarter> > ...etc.
I use a similar folder structure but take a different twist on it. ~Pictures ~Pictures/2006 ~Pictures/2006/ready-to-work ~Pictures/2006/ready-to-work/20060101[-optional event tag] ~Pictures/2006/ready-to-work/20060101[-optional event tag]/IMGPXXX1.dng ~Pictures/2006/ready-to-work/20060101[-optional event tag]/ IMGPXXX... .dng ~Pictures/2006/ready-to-work/20060102 ... ~Pictures/2006/worked ~Pictures/2006/worked/project-name[-optional start date] ~Pictures/2006/worked/project-name[-optional start date]/[tag-]XXX1.psd ~Pictures/2006/worked/project-name[-optional start date]/[tag-] XXX... .psd ~Pictures/2006/worked/project-name #2 ... That way, I know where all the originals are for the whole library (always in a year/ready-to-work subdirectory) and individual renderings to Photoshop and other formats are collated into the "worked" area so I can easily identify what's been included in a project. (Kind of the same concept as Adobe Lightroom's "Sessions" and "Collections" although I came up with the structure before I'd seen Lightroom.) If a particular project is a grouping of files from several ready-to-work subdirectories, I make a copy of those .DNGs to a subdirectory of the project for ease in finding and managing the entire project as a unit. I've not found any particular need to do month or quarter segregation myself, but of course you can figure whatever structure makes the most sense to you. :-) > I also have a third structure where I put all images to be published > on the web, but that's not in a state fit to describe to anyone...:-) I do the same, but it's in the form of an exact mirror of my websites on the local hard drive. Makes it easy to work the HTML that way. > When all that is said, I must admit that I avoid using Photoshop for > organising files. Photoshop CS2+Bridge has little capability for organizing files. Lightroom has DAM facilities built in. Right now, I use iView MediaPro as a cataloger/organizer. It reads the RAW format files JPEG previews and can create thumbnail catalogs very easily. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
