Digital BW, The Print

If this is too far off-topic, just tell me.  I think it is fairly close to 
topic.

I have been giving some thought to organizing a growing number of image 
files.   There are a lot of ways to do it.  Some folks organize folders by 
date.  Some by subjects.  Some by a combination of those.  Does anyone here 
organize by stages of workflow?

For instance: New York City -> All Scans -> Good Images -> Editing Files -> 
Print Files

Or:
All Scans -> New York City | London | (Etc.)
Good Images -> New York City | London | (Etc.)
Editing Files -> New York City | London | (Etc.)
Print Files -> New York City | London | (Etc.)

Please excuse the simplistic examples.  They're just for discussion.

When all I was doing was acquiring images, it wasn't "too" bad.  Now with 
editing, I'm getting discombobulated by having masks and curves and crops 
and such saved in with folders full of initial images.

I'm using IMatch for my organizing.  I'd actually be creating categories 
and sub-categories for the above.  Folders don't have to be as finely 
defined, I would probably just stick with date based folders.  I'd be 
interested to hear if anyone organizes their image files by stage of 
workflow, how it works, suggestions, pitfalls, etc.

Thanks,

Don M

Hello Don,

>Does anyone here organize by stages of workflow?

Yes and no.  For general storage and categorizing of images I use
either date, subject or project as seems fitting.  I use PS Album
because of its ability to tag images with any number of tags and then
filter by those tags.

When an image goes into a workflow to become a print it moves into a
different section of folders organized by portfolio.  An image can
have its own subfolder under a portfolio if needed (because of several
variations, profiles, whatever).


Regards,
Clayton


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