I do this too, very helpful - "I have also renamed many of
the directories by adding the subject to the directory name. So
instead of "2017-01-06" it's "2017-01-06 Green Lake State Park".
This plus keywording plus albums creates the 'airport, skydiving, girls,
clouds, little league' organization that I use.
I also like what AG does with slides and film, and with synching it to
lightroom. good idea, and nice consistency/transference of your physical
system.
One other thing, is that I believe keywords and
comments/descriptions/titles can be written to the file (xmp data?). this
means that that information is accessible outside of lightroom. I haven't
tested it much but i assume basic or advanced file searching can parse that
data. I am happy to live in Lightroom.
My challenge comes when I generate final images and export the file for web
publishing... how to deal with those files? Right now they go into a
separate folder tree which has an odd but generally chronological
structure. It is helpful that Lightroom makes a note in the develop module
when you export an image, so even if you edit it again later, you can see
what state it was in when you last exported it. somepeople will add their
exported files to the catalogue, but that seems to just make things messy
and drives me crazy.
good luck!
thanks for all the tips
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> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 11:27:21 -0600
> From: Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: My Struggle to Learn to Use Lightroom
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> > Thanks for sharing your insights, Philippe. I am getting ready to
> attempt
> > to select a file structure that fits my picture taking habits, i.e.,
> Family,
> > Little League, Airport, Skydiving, maybe even Pretty Girls. :-)
>
> ...
I have also renamed many of
> the directories by adding the subject to the directory name. So
> instead of "2017-01-06" it's "2017-01-06 Green Lake State Park".
>
> With the film scans it is a little different. For all the slides, I
> follow the same methodology as my hanging files. Everything is
> categorized. So, I can grab the hanging folder that says "Swans" and
> those same scanned images will appear in a directory called "Swans".
> But for roll-film, I have index numbered the rolls and I scan them
> into directories by that same index number. Like the camera files, if
> they are of a particular subject, I'll put the subject after the index
> number. When I can be bothered to do so, I do add the subject matter
> into the image description field in Lightroom, but haven't done much
> of that because then I'm trapped forever into Lightroom.
>
> Lightroom does have one feature that is extremely valuable to me. It's
> the folder syncronization tool. When I add scans to the drive, all I
> have to do is sync the "scans" folder and it automatically adds those
> images to the Lightroom catalog. No muss, no fuss.
> ...
> AG (vapors) Schnozz
>
>
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