What various systems for retrieving original RAW images have you found successful?
I am going to be travelling for seven months. If I shot just for discussion 500/day and reduced to 50/day, that is still 10,000+ images! :eek: Help!! :o
Master folder describing trip, or year date?
Sub-folders by date or by location description and further sub-folders by date or description?
Even though the images are keyworded, that only works when the images are opened in a program that recognizes the keywords. What about retreival of images that are archived? How are you doing that? Date doesn't seem to give enough direction to a particular location unless you have an index to refer to if organized by date.
I am not an image saver; hopefully after downloading the initial images into an appropriate folder (and making a backup), and after applying Breeze Browser, I will only have 10 - 15% of original shoot.
The remaining 10% will then be opened in Lightroom and batch renamed, and duplicated replacing the original 100% folder.
After renaming and duplicating, I now have two or more duplicate folders; each folder contains the 50 images plus the xmp file. Next step would be whatever editing I do in LR.
After applying keywording etc to that original 50/day (whenever that finally happens), and maintaining the images as CR2 which means an .XMP sidecar file for every image, I assume it then becomes necessary to duplicate that folder with the 50 images and 50 xmp files to replace the unedited CR2 files/folder that does not have keywords etc.
Since all editing done in LR is nondestructive of the original RAW file and is maintained in the xmp file, if you did not change the file name, couldn't you simply duplicate all of the xmp files for a particular folder and add those xmp files to your backup folders?
Finally, from LR I would go to PS-CS4.
I am shooting in Adobe RBG and my default workspace is ProPhotoRGB for the largest possible colorspace.
Before doing any work in PS, are you saving the particular image as a PSD or a TIFF? I know there has been a lot of discussion about this issue and I am still not clear why some folks are saving as a TIFF which is so much larger than a PSD.
Thanks for all of your assistance; I can wait to start posting images from the trip to share with you.
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