Keven wrote:
I have a question on setting up my folders for Light Room on my MAC. With Windows I set up a Main photo directory and then sub directories for different types of photos such as Travel, One folder for each of my kids, Landscapes, Animals, and other such topics. Then when I did a photo shoot I would copy the pics from my camera into the appropriate directory so I can go back later and find them. I would then import the pics into Light Room from the sub folders on my hard drive. However with a Mac if I use the Picture app it does not let me so this. I have to set up different Albums... Is there a way to set things up the way I had it in windows? I welcome your ideas for those of you who use MACS.
Thanks for your responses.
Keven
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I suggest using Lightroom - a very masterful digital asset manager.
I had a scheme in place since 2000, that had a single master folder, with a subfolder for each year, and a subfolder for each time I used the camera with a date and description in the title field. Below that were my images, and below that were my working, layered files, which were tiffs, then later psds.
It was easy to adopt Lightroom, as it did not require that I change what I was already doing.
Using your scheme would make me crazy, since in a given event/outing/trip I may take pictures that belong to multiple categories, which would mean either making multiple copies, for multiple destination folders, or spend a lot of time placing images in their subject-based folders, and then remembering where they all went.
Arranging my folders on a drive in a simple sequential hierarchy, then using Lightroom to assign a single image to an endless number of collections, eliminates any need to make subject-based folders. This screenshot is a Windows Explorer view, but it would be no different in Finder.
In 2006 I switched to shooting raw, and I no longer keep jpegs. In Lightroom, I have the original or "master" raw file, and a 16 bit ProPhoto psd file with layers and masks and all of my edits. If I need a jpeg/tiff/png file for any reason, I generate a new jpeg from a collection of export presets. This keeps my drive clear and uncluttered. It only takes a couple of seconds to find any image - using collections, then searching within a collection, or merely doing a keyword search, metadata search, etc -
What you did in Windows was way too much work - you are making individual folders where it would be far easier to make individual virtual collections, thus ending the duplications and the potential of losing edits by overwriting a file or even losing a file.
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