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How to copy pictures with 3+ stars to tablet preserving folder structure using free tools on Windows?
Many users use starring photos to only view the best pictures later. Folders often have event name and date in them and are very important.
Using only free tools on Win system (win8), how can a user ...
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Best way to move photos to another drive (Lightroom)?
My wife uses Lightroom for her Photography business. Her main drive is filling up and I installed another drive into our Mac Pro to be used as an archive. She has groups of files (Weddings, since ...
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Optimal JPGs resolution out of a Point & Shoot camera for storage size and quality? [duplicate]
Simple point & shoots don't produce RAWs, they produce JPGs. Let's assume you have a modern P&S which shoots 16 megapixels maximum in Super Fine, Fine and Normal JPGs.
First side question is ...
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Lightroom 4 import customization - filename and path
I want my photos to be stored like this
YYYY/YYYY-MM-DD_Name_of_shooting/YYYY-MM-DD_Name_of_shooting_001.nef
(The date is the date of shooting)
Is it possible to setup LR 4 in the way that ...
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How can I select photos that are deleted in the working set from a backup?
I have a set of photos that I have backed up in two different locations. So I have three sets in total.
In my working set, I deleted the photos that I deemed not good enough to keep. I actually ...
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Renaming Photos in Sequential Alphabetical order
Before I start writing an AppleScript to do this I was wondering if anyone knew of any way to rename photos in Sequential Alphabetical Order. Let me give you an example. For one of the papers I do ...
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Photo and data sorting software
I would like to be able to have thumbnail images of my photographs with information next to them (Location, Photo ID #, Date Photo Taken, etc.) that I can sort according to the column headers (like in ...
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Is there a way to have Lightroom include the cropped aspect ratio in the filename when the file is exported?
I am exporting my files to be printed by an outside service and I know before hand when working in the develop module what size I want the print to be. So I set the crop aspect ratio to be what I ...
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How do you store raw and jpg files separately
I shoot in raw and jpg but when I'm done I just want to give the customer all the jpg files and keep the raw files so I can do some touch up on the ones they want.
I want to store it in different ...
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Card cloner software for Windows
As part of my workflow I would like to clone the SD card first thing before I do anything.
Does anyone know of a good external USB drive cloner for Windows 7?
Mac has this functionality natively ...
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ASP.NET C# Web Project Photo Merchant Site [closed]
I am looking for a open source package site that I can use to host photos on and have them purchase through paypal for example. I don't need a complete site but if one exists with the below core ...
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Why are some of my pictures missing from the normally all-inclusive Photos folder in my Apple Aperture library?
In Apple Aperture, there are a few unchangeable locations in your library:
Projects
Photos
Faces
Places
Etc.
And their purpose is pre-defined by the app, so "Photos" should always show all the ...
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Should I add my exported photos to my Lightroom catalog?
After processing my RAW files in Lightroom, I often export JPGs to give to people or to post online. I create these files in a directory structure under an \Export top level directory. I'm trying to ...
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How to remove duplicate masters in Aperture?
There are many photos in my Aperture library that have two masters, each one jpeg and one raw. I'd like to delete one of both, but I didn't even found a way of splitting them.
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What's the easiest way to deliver RAW images online to a client?
RAW images are very large in file size so sending them as email attachments doesn't work with gmail/yahoo because they have file size limits. This gets even more difficult when sending 50+ images at a ...
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What photography workflow software can be kept on a central server?
At my company we do a lot of photo shoots for our products, at the moment we just organize the photo per photo shoot but with this system its hard to recover a photo of a product, you have to go over ...
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How can I manage my raw+jpeg files?
I shoot in raw+jpeg mode. Mainly because I like to do post processing, but my wife doesn't wan't to be bothered with that. She likes to be able to take the photo and upload it to facebook without any ...
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Is there a problem if I delete or copy photos from my SD card using Windows Explorer?
If I just insert the card in the PC and delete some photos inside DCIM folder, or add some, can this damage my card or camera? Should I use some special software for this?
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What does the DSC filename prefix come from?
Without having a real problem with this, why did Nikon (maybe others too?) chose this filename prefix?
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How to compare RAW photos quickly?
It's not uncommon for me to return from a hike or outing and have 500+ images to "sift" before getting started on post processing.
Is there a better way to compare 5-10 photos of the same image ...
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Can I import pictures into Lightroom and retain my existing folder structure?
I already have 30k pictures ordered in the following format: YYYY/MM/YYYY-MM-DD. I would like to continue this format instead of going through and renaming all my folders (besides, I like this ...
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Where does Lightroom keep the original raw file?
Yesterday I realized that for the last import I did with Lightroom I don't have the original RAW files from the camera's SD. In the memory card I have only the RAW file and when I import them in ...
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Is there a free visual similarity image local hard drive search?
I'm looking for a desktop search engine for finding images on my local hard drive with high visual similarity. I've only found paid for ones so far. It could be Linux or Windows software; either would ...
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Suggestions for shared cross-platform photo management?
I have a Mac, my wife has a Win7 machine. Currently I take all of our photos and put them into iPhoto. There's about 35K images in there now. The problem is that they are all accessible only from my ...
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Is there a way to delete RAW files from Aperture?
I currently shoot everything in RAW+JPEG and import into Aperture as pairs. I have a large number of photos that I have not (and will not) make adjustments to and it would be nice to remove the RAW ...
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Lightroom Import alternative?
Just returned from a vacation and processed my pics. Then realized what I really use Lightroom for and it's mainly the advanced import function to be able to rename files into my preferred hierarchy:
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Are RAW files safe from changes?
While I'm shooting my pictures as RAWs (or actually JPEG+RAW) for a while, I haven't really have ever worked with the RAW files so far.
When opening the RAW files, and playing with the options, I'm ...
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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'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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