Folder structure

[marts_uk]

I'm interested to hear how people organise their images. This is how I organise my images on my PC (rightly or wrongly!)

I have a folder on the root of my D: drive called Photos
Within this folder, I have seperate folders for each event, location or subject I photograph - which I also add the month and year the photos were taken. In here go all the RAW and JPG files, and any edited/final images that have been processed. Only processed images get renamed with their title to xxxxxxxx.jpg

I take jpgs, so I can quickly view and delete any bad images once back home without having to open photoshop.

eg;

D:\Photos
..............\Manchester - May 2010
............................\img_001.raw
............................\img_001.jpg
............................ \soaring eagle.jpg
..............\London - April 2010
............................ \img_002.raw
............................\img_002.jpg
............................\Exit Spin.jpg


I don't tag my photos, and often wish I did, as there are numerous occasions where I know I've taken an image of xxxxx, but can I find it!

All the images get backed up weekly onto a totally seperate internal hard drive E: an also weekly onto an external USB drive. If there is one thing you learn from working in IT - backup, backup and backup. Mind you the number of times you tell people, they only realise the importance of backing up when its too late! "What do you mean you can't restore my files that were never backed up!"

I've always used Photoshop, but in this last week I've dopwnlaoded a trial of Lightroom.


thanks
Martin

 

[Danny_Two]

Pretty much the same, one folder with sub folders inside. I never keep RAW's though, only jpeg's, and only the one finished version.

 

[happy haggis]

I do mine by date within a master 'Photographs folder.
D:\Photographs\ then
year\month\imagename
I tag my photos in Lightroom and back up to a Drobo. The D drive is Raid 1 so all images are mirrored to a second drive as well.

 

[technics100]

I do mine as follows;

s:/photographs

/2011 (folder)

/20111006_Description (folder)

/20111006_001.jpg (filename)

This means they run in order of date and makes them easier to find

 

[marts_uk]

thanks. I know a couple of people who dump everything into one folder and let Lightroom organise things, but I'd prefer to be able to use folders as I do now - especially knowing the limitations of the windows file system!!

 

[God]

thanks. I know a couple of people who dump everything into one folder and let Lightroom organise things, but I'd prefer to be able to use folders as I do now - especially knowing the limitations of the windows file system!!

When I import my photos I do it to one folder on the desktop, I then organise from lightroom by importing into pretty much the same folder format everyone uses: X/photography/Year_month_client name/photo01

The only reason I use lightroom to import is that I copy raw tp dng when importing then backup the raws to an external hd and then back up the entire photography folder weekly.