Organize Your Pad: My Photo Organization

you missed the part where you are coming to my house and applying all your super powers to my umpteen-gazillion photos! awesome post!!

 

Yipee! I totally took a screen shot of your explanation in the forum a bit back so I could remember what you did. Now I don't have to remember it is all written out for me

 

Something I do different: I have dropbox set up to automatically upload photos from my phone and dh's. This makes it super easy to scrap project life. It also means that since the photos are uploaded, and then backed up online, I don't lose phone photos. My phone memory card went bad, and I would have lost all my phone photos were it not for dropbox!

I don't use lightroom, but I've heard you can set it up to watch a folder, the same way PSE organizer watches my phone photo folder.

 

I need to find out about that--that seems like a very cool feature.

 

Here you go: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/lightroom/using/WS1FAB59DE-8867-4052-BA02-5CF6C163CD29.html

I'm sure it's similar depending on the version of lightroom.

 

Loved your blog post, Jen!

 

Great post Jen! Thanks!

 

any setting in bridge, so it doesn't change the date the photo was taken?

 

What did you do to the photo in Bridge and what exactly changed? I've never had the creation date change in Bridge before.

 

it wrote the meta code with todays date, kept the date when it was copied to hard drive, but didn't retain orginal time stamp of the photo,

 

What did you do in Bridge before this happened?

 

I just ran it, didn't change any setting

 

Bridge doesn't edit the metadata on all your files as soon as you open it, though. Something has to happen that would trigger it to do that. Are you viewing these time stamps in Bridge or in Explorer? Maybe a screenshot would help.

 

found my mavica cameria reset itself, i have pics with same name, but are differant. No wonder i seem to missing so many pics. Go back to the floppy's to get, like what 6 off 1 floppy.Not my day

 

Cool info guys. Thanks Jen. Adding this to my OneNote notes for scrapbooking.

 

Here I am resurrecting an old post again. I guess I'm feeling like reading more than scrapping this morning.
It's funny, I had come across Jen's photo organizing blog post last May during iNSD (you can see my comment on it) and indeed wrote myself a pop up reminder to read the blog regularly, starting with THIS post. It has been popping up on my phone every Monday all summer, but I've only managed to read the blog a few times. So it's funny that this morning, my scrolling through the Learning Pad brought me back to this photo organization blog post I'd wanted to return to since last May.

Anyway, I'm not just rambling. I have a question.

Do you keep Lightroom open while scrapping in Photoshop? You don't find it slows down your computer?

I'm babying my old 2011 iMac so I try to minimize what I ask it to do, and usually only open one or the other of my most demanding programs, LR and PS. But I like your suggestion of marking photos with colors for "to scrap" and "scrapped" and I'm considering doing that. I had started doing it with color tags in Finder last year, but somewhere along the line, I forgot to keep doing it. I guess I could start that up again.

 

I giggled when I was reading down this thread because: I do use Lightroom now. AND I still use Dropbox. I love that Lightroom autoimports my Dropbox photos!

To your question: Yes, I keep Lightroom open on my desktop while I scrap. No, I do not keep it open on my laptop when I scrap. On the laptop, it slows it down. On the desktop, no problem.