the entire flow of things...

ok so i know you take pictures and copy them to your hd... and edit them to clean them up... but curious..

has anyone actually sat down and thought out of a flow chart that follows what they do?

ill give an example..
im playing with photoshop at work as our marketing department has it... maybe i can get them to buy lightroom.. but if not i will..

bought my camera and it came with software. My boss has the t1i and said he loves the software.. it copies off the pics to your drive... also knows what is new, etc.. i think it is even say a mini database...

but then if you use light room.. it too is a database... and keeps track....


so do you actually use the camera software or do you actually copy off to storage?

im gonna dabble in the lightroom as im gonna download the trial before buying..

but my thinking..

im running windows home server... with plenty of drives for now and can be upgraded..
got 500gb, 500gb, 1tb, 1.5tb

so right now i put sd into card reader on computer and copy pics to my window shome server photos share..

it is ..
photos\1. organized\2010\11.nove​mber - for this month

so there is my starting point of organization...
but then import into lightroom from there.. just say add (dont copy or move)...


is it that easy or do you do something else?

for me

SD==>Server==Import into Lightroom

hmm no one thought of it???

i keep all images i'm still working on in a folder on the desktop, and edited/finished pic in a folder inside that folder, when i'm finished editing in photoshop it gets moved to 'my documents>pictures' folder. I keep a copy on the PC at home, the Mac at work, and every few months burn a load of dvds as backup. not the most organised system, but its simple and it works for me.