Questions tagged [file-management]
Organization and manipulation of files
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How do I prevent a Nikon D3100 from resetting the file image numbering each time?
I have a Nikon D3100. When I unload the pictures from the camera to the computer, the numbering of the file names goes back to zero.
Sometimes, when they are still about the same event, I would ...
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What are best-practices for personal photo organization in Aperture?
I'm curious about best practices for photo and project organization. I'm starting to have too many projects to just have them listed by date, like iPhoto does. I've recently switched to Aperture, and ...
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What's a good application for file and folder for organizing large amounts of images on Linux?
I have a collection of around 35.000 JPG's and 5.000 NEF files. Previously I imported and "organized" this bulk load of pictures using RoboImport. It quite fitted my workflow as I could give it almost ...
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How do I get the photo filenames from my LX5 to continue from a given number?
I have a lovely new Panasonic LX5, replacing my LX3. I am using the same SD card as in the LX3, which already has the folders 100, 101, 102, ... 116 (yes, that was a thousand photos per folder...).
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iPhoto and Aperture — Good workflow?
I just recently bought Aperture 3 and I already have iPhoto 11.
My iPhoto has thousands of pictures. Many are dupes. Many are low quality from a 1MP (yeah, remember those?) camera.
However, I have ...
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How to change Lightroom's folder organization
In my lightroom library I organize my photos in the following way:
-> Photos
-----> year.month.day.CountryCode.City.Occasion
Example:
-> Photos
---> 2010.11.07.NZ.Wellington.My_Birthday
---> ...
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What's good photo management software for dealing with a huge library?
My wife's computer has probably 100 GBs of photos--thousands upon thousands of photos. We've been using Windows Live Photo Gallery (Windows 7) and things have been pretty good. The features and ...
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How should one best manage large collections of photographs?
With gigabytes of pictures accumulating over time, I'm wondering what systems (software, strategies, etc.) people are using to keep track of their collections? Let's say you remember a picture and you ...
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Better than Flickr for albums hierarchy
Is any of the other major photosharing sites better than Flickr for the albums hierarchy? I mean the possibility to define a depth of more than two... If I'm not mistaken in flickr you can only define ...
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How do you use catalogs in Lightroom? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Best practices with Lightroom libraries
Or perhaps, how do you organize your photos in Lightroom 3?
I got a feeling that the way I do it is not very convenient.
The flow ...
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What software is focused on reviewing and organizing images?
If I wanted to just view, sort, and organize (via tags or folders or both), what programs are geared toward doing this quickly?
I know I could do this in most any photo editor, but it's not ideal for ...
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Do Lightroom and Aperture force you into using a specific folder structure?
I'm getting busy, which is a good thing. I need to be able to batch process raws, or rather make global edits, to increase efficiency. I've heard that Aperature and Lightroom are both good at this but ...
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What is the right way to delete all photos from a camera?
What is the most correct way to delete all photos from a camera after they all have been copied to a computer:
to format memory card using the camera menu,
or simply Select All and Delete photo ...
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iPhone photo download workflow for ONLY new photos onto Mac
[Cross posting this from SuperUser since I have a bounty on it and have no replies yet, hopefully will get more attention here ;)]
I'm finding my iPhone photo download workflow to be a bit cumbersome....
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Is there an EXIF standard for tagging people in photographs?
There are a number of websites that let you tag people in photos, such as Facebook and now flickr, but is there an EXIF standard for tagging who is in a photo, and where they are?
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How can I better organise and file my photos?
At present I meticulously add metadata as EXIF tags to my photos using Microsoft Pro Photo Tools, which also lets me place them accurately on a map. The thing is I tend to leave photos in a folder ...
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