Two points, Jostein:
1. I'd like to be able to backup my photos to separate external HDDs and
I'd like to backup logical units. To that end, Family Album and/or
International Travel are both good candidates.
2. I don't want to bet my life on LR or Adobe. Thus minimal basic
hierarchy is in folder structure. Call that a skeleton if you will.
Boris
On 10/21/2012 11:12 AM, AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne wrote:
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
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