Photo Editing Methods of Organizing Your Photographs

[Tina Boes]

Hello everyone,
I continue to struggle with ways to organize my photos. Seems I forget what I called what, and I spend far too much time trying to locate something when I have thousands of photos on each external drive. I have done a pretty terrible job of naming photos and organizing in any decent way the past couple of years, and it's become an extremely time consuming effort to get access to what I'm looking for.
I do use Lightroom, and I'm trying to use the labeling and collections a bit now. But, not everyone uses it.

What are your best methods of organizing, labeling, and storing your photos so that you have ease of access to a particular shot when needed?

 

[Jack]

Hi Tina Boes ,


Well, I don't use any editing software to organise my images, however, I do organise them on my personal website. Once I have them edited and exported, I do create folders, to move them there. Obviously, dating them or naming, depending on where I've been or visited. Have you tried to open your own portfolio website, where you can organise the photos more intuitive?

 

[Greg Shchepanek]

I use websites & I organize by date & location in my folders

 

[Jack]

I use websites & I organize by date & location in my folders

Are you keeping the raw files?

 

[Greg Shchepanek]

I use websites & I organize by date & location in my folders

Yes I am ... I am one of those keep everything types

 

[Jack]

I use websites & I organize by date & location in my folders

I bet you have couple of 10tb external drivers full with images.

 

[Greg Shchepanek]

I use websites & I organize by date & location in my folders

Yes yes I have an extensive collection

 

[Tina Boes]

Hi Tina Boes ,


Well, I don't use any editing software to organise my images, however, I do organise them on my personal website. Once I have them edited and exported, I do create folders, to move them there. Obviously, dating them or naming, depending on where I've been or visited. Have you tried to open your own portfolio website, where you can organise the photos more intuitive?

I do have a website....kind of. LOL I have not been updating it for a couple of years. The Pandemic has put everything on the back burner, mostly because of being busy taking care of things relative to that and work. I'm going to try the portfolio thing, maybe within that website somehow. Right now, I just need to get everything separated and organized. I like to keep the raw files with the edited photos, in case I need to do additional editing on a different copy.

 

[Jack]

Hi Tina Boes ,


Well, I don't use any editing software to organise my images, however, I do organise them on my personal website. Once I have them edited and exported, I do create folders, to move them there. Obviously, dating them or naming, depending on where I've been or visited. Have you tried to open your own portfolio website, where you can organise the photos more intuitive?

I do have a website....kind of. LOL I have not been updating it for a couple of years. The Pandemic has put everything on the back burner, mostly because of being busy taking care of things relative to that and work. I'm going to try the portfolio thing, maybe within that website somehow. Right now, I just need to get everything separated and organized. I like to keep the raw files with the edited photos, in case I need to do additional editing on a different copy.

Check the CMS website from our Deal page, I have migrated to their CMS and so far happy, easy to use and well organised. I don't usually keep raw files, I do delete them once I have edited images exported. Keeping them takes extra space on my laptop.

 

[Jack]

I use websites & I organize by date & location in my folders

I wouldn't be surprised.