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Video – Organizing Photos By Date?
I run into a lot of photographers that organize their photos by date. Then they start using Lightroom and feel they have to do the same thing. I say abandon your date-loving folders and replace it with something much easier. Why? Lightroom automatically organizes your photos by date for you so you don’t really have to create all those folders to do the same thing. In this video, we’ll take a look at how Lightroom gives you access to all the date-related folders you need and how another method of organizing your photos may help out.
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I agree with Russ. The problem with keyword or project named folders is that I’ve seen this method break down. The other thing is that I have had creation dates get corrupted in photos, which gets very confusing. That’s why I want the date name in the file.
The other side of the coin is that software does change. Adobe has abandoned software before. (Adobe Type Manager, GoLive, etc) I used to be a big user of Canto’s Cumulus. Stopped using it and now my keyword hierarchies that I had built in to that software are useless to me.
I’m just now starting in Lightroom, so I am trying to decide which method to go with. I’m loathe to leave behind the date folder structure as I said, there can be big problems with named folder structures and creation date corruption.
thanks Matt, for sharing another way to keep track of my photos, this would work great from me because i have so many images anyway, so i make separate catalog files by the year, so this would be perfect. thanks for sharing.
aloha brady
I My structure goes like this:
080110 Scotland
080216-24 Slovakia
080320 Scotland Edinburgh
080517 St. Petersburg, Nik Birthday
080620_nik Tallinn
So it goes chronologically and I see quickly what the images there about. 080517 – 17th May, 2008, so it sorted correctly also in the file managers.
If I was on 2-days event, I usually put them in one folder, But sometimes divide in two folders if I was on two events during a day. With “_nik” I marked that those pictures were taken by Nik
PS: I am really fan of your videos and LR itself. That’s my first comment on killertips!
Hi,
here is how I work:
Outside of LR, I copy the photos from my card to a folder, using a date-based structure (YYYY – YYMMDD Event/Location). At the end of the year, I back up this folder to an external drive and burn it on DVD (for the regular back-ups I am using Time Machine).
I then import (add) the photos into LR. I am working in the folder structure right after import to add the metadata (location – country/state/city etc) and keywords (event, person, location – type or general description) as well as for the first sorting.
Afterwards, I nearly always use the metadata/keyword approach, as for me this is the most powerful part of LR. Besides the default presets, I have created several custom presets for patterns I use regularly.
Cheers
maywind