Organizing and Storing Photos

How do you store and sort your photos?

I come home now and dump the cards to my computer into my files. I set up folders for the event and work from there. Also do you burn backups??

Please my system isn't working well and I need help!!

Iview MediaPro 3...try a free download and you'll be hooked

Second vote for iView Media Pro.
I copy files to internal and external HDD using image ingester.
Import into iView.
Make selection.
Selection through DPP, then PS.
Save / print / web images.
Backup to external HDD and DvD.
Catalog of external HDD in iView.

My workflow is nearly identical to Rene above.
Image Ingester Pro does the following for me during import:
-Create backup copy of original RAW file - under its own folder structure
-Apply my basic EXIF data (copyright, etc) to all files
-Rename files using my standard Name_YYYYMMDD_#### format (where #### is the original camera numerical file id)
-Convert to DNG
-Place files in Year/Month/Day folders as defined in user-parameters
I then import these newly added images into my Iview catalog, where I can keyword them at my leisure, either at my workstation, or by copying the database file to my laptop and doing it during downtime while traveling, staying in a hotel, during boring meetings at work, etc.
I use ACR & PS CS3 for editing.
I back up everything (automatically every night) to secondary and tertiary spinning disk, tertiary being on an external raid array.


Note: All of these applications are available on both PC and Mac platforms.
I am now all Mac.

Multiple ways

First I catalog by date, i.e.:

2007>January>01012007>original photos in the top folder then I have a processed folder, signed and email size

Then I put the photos that I really like/turned out grouped according to topic in another set of folders...flowers, statues etc.

If that gets to be too full I break it down even more, location, color, type...what ever works best....all in the detail

Import via LR.
Sort in LR, crop, color correct and export for Noise and sharpening.
Upload to Smugmug, or reimport and print from LR.
Backups run nightly and copy files (incrementals or full) to NAS drive.

image ingester looks great, but can't iView do all that?

Does anyone have any comments on Adobe Photoshop Album? It came with my Spyder2. I'm wondering if it's a lite version of Lightroom with only a cataloguing capability, or if it's already an obsolete Adobe product. It may be handy for people who only do minimal PP.

chet79 wrote in post #3311754
image ingester looks great, but can't iView do all that?

In a word, no.

IView is a great asset management tool, but doesn't have the ingestion features that Image Ingester does. Download a free copy of the basic version from imageingester.com and try it out for yourself.