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#1
Hello fellow Photozoners,



My image collection is somewhat getting out of hand. I wonder if anyone of you has a good way of cataloguing images om their computer.



I had a system for my slides, but I ít's not really working anymore. I catalogued the slides like:



So, I had numbers like 01a-0001. '01' means coast/beach 'a' means sunsets and 0001 is the number of the image. I have 12 different catagories for the coast ranging from storms, close-ups, recreation, rescue, vegetation(dunes), etc. For other subjects I had different numbers, for example Dutch towns and villages start with '04' and so on.



I don't need the date mentioned in the name of the images, like some people do.



Hope to hear how you catalgue your images.





Best wishes,



Reinier
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#2
[quote name='Reinier' timestamp='1330346233' post='16228']Hope to hear how you catalgue your images.[/quote]



Lightroom. I use Keywords + collections to organise my pictures rather than file names and folders.



Ciao, Walter
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#3
[quote name='Reinier' timestamp='1330346233' post='16228']

... but I ít's not really working anymore ...

[/quote]



Can you explain a bit more, why the system you mentioned

worked in the past and now fails to work. This would make

it easier to understand your needs and eventually derive a

recommendation from that.



Rainer
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#4
I use Lightroom and its keyword system, but photos are stored in directorys which are resembled in the Lightroom libary structure. I think this approach benefits from the best of both worlds, even though it is naturally not as flexible as a structure thats purely virtual within Lightroom.



Christian
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#5
Hi Rainer,



Sorry for the late reply, I have been sick for quite a while. So, hence I didn't spend time on PZ.



The problem with my 'old' archive is that lets say a sunset on the beach will be number as 01a-xxxx. But it can also be a sunset on the beach with a surfer in the picture. So, this picture can go in 1a-xxxx as sunset, but also in 01g-xxxx as 01 'beach' and 'g' for sport & recreation.



So, that's where the problem arises, when a photograph 'holds' more than one subjects.



I haven't numbered my digital photographs at all, I just made folders and use the number my camera 'gave'. But my first Dslr, EOS 40D, numbered differently than my EOS 5D. And I didn't pay attention, so everytime the EOS 5D started over again with numbering. So, these numbers aren't useful either.



Hope you understand my problem.



Enjoy your sunday!



Best wishes,



Reinier
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#6
As said above: I don't use a sophisticated naming convention for files and folders to achieve something a hierarchical file system is not designed for.

I use a Lightroom and keywords instead. A single image may be tagged with several keywords.



Ciao, Walter
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#7
[quote name='Walter Schulz' timestamp='1332094769' post='16859']

A single image may be tagged with several keywords.

[/quote]



Exactly, that's the value of tags that no folder structure can provide.



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#8
Thanks for the replies. I do understand what you are writing. But still there is the problem I can't add keywords to the scans I made of my slides, which are already Tiff-files. So, I would have two different systems, which isn't going to work properly.



Hope someone has a solution.





Best wishes,



Reinier
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#9
You can also import TIFF-files in LR.



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#10
Sorry, I don't understand your problem. TIFF supports metadata: EXIF, IPTC. All there, no problem. Am I missing something?



EDIT: Other DAM solutions (DAM = Digital Asset Management; Aperture for example) support TIFF as well. TIFF was/is *the* file format for easy transfer between different systems: Unix/Linux, Mac OS, Windows ...

Not a good idea not to support TIFF if you want to sell your software.



Ciao, Walter
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