Photo management - organizing your images

Heidi Maiers · 03-25-2004, 01:03 AM

Garth and Michele,

Those ar both good systems and we can all agree that it's essential to have some type of system to keep all of those images organized so you know in an instant where to find any one of the thousands that are stored.

I use a pretty simple system, but it works well for me. I organize by subject name like you Michele, and then have subfolders to store resource photos, work in progress photos, and final photos - originals and edited. When a folder is complete, I copy the whole thing to a zip drive for storage. When a zip drive is full, I burn a CD as a backup and reuse the zip.

Marvin Mattelson · 03-25-2004, 11:47 AM

Michele, what camera brand and model do you use?

Mike McCarty · 03-25-2004, 06:27 PM

Gals and Guys,

Have any of you made use of these portable storage devices like the Nikon Coolwalker http://nikonimaging.com/global/news/2004/0128_07.htm ? Do these things make sense or is it just another gadget to take my money? Seems like it could be really useful if you wanted to show a client various images. You could just bring your Coolwalker and hook it up to their TV. This one is 30 gig but I've seen other brands that go up to 60 gig.