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Question from Justin: “How do you organize your edited photos? (general photos not people specific)”
Brianne: Elements organizer or picasa
Andrew: What I do is keep an “Edited” folder inside of my actual folder with the originals, than I put them onto an external hard drive!
Stacy: Same as Andrew, also within the Edited folder, I have a web folder for the ones ready to share on the web.
Brian: I save the RAW files in their own folder according to date in the following format: YYYY-MM-DD – <Description of event> Then I create a new LR Catalog with that same format. If I save the catalog along with the RAW files; I can always output the JPG’s later on.
Willow Tree Images: by year, on a cloud server.
Sandi: I create folders by date and subject with the edited folder in with the originals stored in an external hard drive so If I ever have to reference it later i know exactly when and where it was.. I also have USB sticks packed with both folders filed just in case!!
Sadie: I have my personal ones each in a folder by year then month (such as “2012 October”) and professional ones (for now, I’m still pretty new) are in a folder “Business”, last name and then date of shoot and all files are put into there from that shoot (for example, inside my business folder would be a folder for “Smith” and inside that there is a folder named “10-23-12”, inside that folder there is a “RAW” folder and a “Logo” folder and the rest of the files are lined up after those).
Debra: Folder with Year & then a Folder with client’s name, sub folders—->RAW files, Finals, Web & Contract on my EHD.
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