Organizing photos by date
To show how short my memory is, I was reading today and saw someone mention the same date labeling scheme. All of a sudden it came to me. I was reading your book. Duh!steveheap wrote: I'm a date man, myself. In Lightroom I have a top level folder for the year - ie 2011, then in that folder I put a folder for each month. I use the format "2011 a January", "2011 b February" which keeps all the months in the right order. I know I could use a numeric format, but somehow I like the look of the old words!
I rarely put folders inside the month, but I have started giving imported photos a custom name and index number - ie macro_coin_1 etc., which helps me see what files are when I am simply looking at their names.
I can usually remember approximately when I took a particular picture and so the date order helps me find them reasonably quickly.
My final step (as I create pictures for stock sites) is that I do the keywording and title/description of the ones I am going to sell in Lightroom as well before I export them as JPEGs, and so I always have the option of searching for a likely keyword and that will get me to the right folder.
Steve
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