Ficklelife
Suspended / Banned
- Messages
- 2
- Edit My Images
- No
I have around 3 (up to 6 sometimes) photographers that submit a thousand-ish photos to me every fortnight. These photos are renamed by the photographers with a special number assigned from a spreadsheet and I use this to create a CSV file and then us a Perl script to automate renaming to a meaningful filename which people can search for.
The workflow is
Is there a better workflow out there than this? I imagine there are dedicated photography submission and workflow packages for photojournalists that will tag the image with all the correct data but google searching is coming up with not much. So I thought I'd consult the collective wisdom!
The workflow is
- google spreadsheet list of locations photographers need to go - this spreadsheet forms the basis for the renaming
- photographers take photos and mark on the google spreadsheet that it's done
- photos are dropped onto a dropbox (www.dropbox.com) as and when taken
- photos are renamed when dropped on dropbox to a 6 digit number corresponding on the spreadsheet which syncs to my machine nicely
- when photos are renamed to the 6 digit number, I convert the spreadsheet into a csv and run a perl script from the Mac OS X terminal. This converts the filenames into meaningful words and loads of other info instead of numbers.
Is there a better workflow out there than this? I imagine there are dedicated photography submission and workflow packages for photojournalists that will tag the image with all the correct data but google searching is coming up with not much. So I thought I'd consult the collective wisdom!