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Tagged with organisation or file-management
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Is there any way in Lightroom to sort photos from multiple days based on time of the day?
I have a folder with holidays photos (7 days).
I would like to make a collection witch would sort these photos based on time of the day, without considering the day.
For example, all pictures taken ...
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Cross-Platform Photo Management Workflow - from Smart-Phone/PC to Storage to Print
I am looking for a simple photography workflow. I want as much automation as possible to handle synchronization, organization, editing, and printing.
I am willing to put in more work upfront so ...
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Looking for an application that will provide image matches on local machine [duplicate]
I've found a bunch of programs that will spit out a list of duplicate images. In other words, you click "Go" and it looks at everything on a drive, or in a folder, and tells you if there are any ...
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Lightroom synchronize finding all photos as new photos
I'm using Dropbox to store all my photos and use Lightroom to categorize and post process my photos. Now Dropbox apparently renamed my Dropbox folder from "Dropbox" to "Dropbox ()" recently. It also ...
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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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Best way to Re-Organize my photos in Lightroom
I started using Lightroom years ago on Version 1 or 2, and back then, I told it to import my photos into a folder, and put the photos into a folder for each day (for example 2006-01-07, etc.).
It ...
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How can I change the image counter on my Canon Sx240?
I use one monthly folder. My image counter was about 2300 (after a full loop... when will they use 5 digits?). When inserting my SD card to another Canon and back to mine, the image counter is now ...
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How can I show the oldest and newest image with ExifTool in Windows?
Is there any way to show the name of the oldest and the newest image in the current folder with ExifTool, based on the shooting date?
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What are some common uses for stacking in Lightroom?
In what situations does it work well? Or not work well? How do you use it to organise your photos?
In what situations does "Auto-stack by capture time" work well?
Note that I'm not talking about ...
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How to store photos for long term locally?
TL;DR: I am amateur photographer and looking for advice on storing my photographs locally (not on cloud/online) for long-term.
Background
I started clicking photos in .JPG initially but realized it's ...
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How can I organise collections by date in Lightroom?
I often go walking with my camera and I like to collect the photos from each walk into a collection. I name the collection after the place I've walked, and it ultimately contains any photos I took, ...
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Moving from Light Room to Capture One/Media Pro or alternative
I've used Lightroom (LR) for the past year and I love that tool. However, I've recently looked into alternatives and the output of Capture One (CO) looks better than LR, at least for me.
I wanted to ...
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How can I sort pictures in a folder based on similarity? [duplicate]
I have many duplicate photos in a folder. How can I sort the pictures in a folder by similarity? i.e., sorting not based on the file name or date, but based on similarity of image?
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What system should I use for photo management and sharing over the Internet? [closed]
This question has been asked before, but the answers are 3+ years old and nearly all of the projects referenced are gone!
Basically, I want something that does everything Picasa (the Windows client ...
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Lightroom: Folder display doesn't match filesystem
I recently imported my iPhoto library into Lightroom using Lightroom's import facility.
The result of that was a neatly arranged filesystem, like thus:
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How can I reduce the storage space for unprocessed timelapses?
I have many JPEGs captured as part of different timelapses. I have all of them stored as they came from the camera, but it is starting to take up a lot of space.
I want to keep the photos at their ...
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Darktable on multiple machines
What is the best way to organise a large photo library that needs to be accessed on two laptops (both my wife and I are editing pictures). Possibilities:
store the library.db along with the files on ...
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How do you keep organized in LR?
I recently switched from Aperture to LR. I want to know what is the best way to get organized.
How do you keep your file structure? I read online that some are using YYYYMMDD-Title as folders.
Also, ...
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Possible to open photo straight to Adobe Camera Raw?
Is there any way to open a photo straight into Adobe Camera Raw without loading Photoshop or anything? I am trying to use my own program to browse my DNG photos and I would like to be able to open ...
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Can I copy a Lightroom catalog between computers?
I have a NAS drive where I keep all my photos, and I have just cataloged this using an instance of Lightroom which is on my laptop - 15,000 photos or so.
Now I want to use Lightroom on my Surface ...
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How to reorganize folders into dated folders for picasa
I have photos in DCIM\g343asdfj Folders that have been indexed in picasa and facetagged. Now I want to move them to ...
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Photos imported into Aperture aren't showing up — why not?
I imported about 500 images into Aperture (mostly CR2, but some jpg), and for some reason they're not showing up in my library.
If I right click on my library and select "Show Package Contents" and ...
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When bracketing photos, how do you keep track of them during post?
When I download photos I often can't tell which bracketed shots go with which. How do I keep track of them during editing?
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Can Lightroom facilitate the consolidation of 2 external drives to a third?
I have two large external drives with about 2.5 TB of data. About half the storage is images and videos that I want to put on a new NAS drive/device. I don’t want to carry over junk, duplicates and ...
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Can I import photos into Lightroom from Microsoft OneDrive without downloading them directly to my HDD?
I have all my images in OneDrive. I want to import them into Lightroom 5 and create smart previews. How do I do this without downloading all the images directly to my HDD? Can Lightroom reference ...
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Why do copies of the same photo have slightly different file sizes?
I've been pulling my hair out at this task, which seems insurmountable. I have spent a lot of time consolidating all my past storage drives, and then doing it again, and now discover I have many ...
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Standards or widespread guidelines for updating of Exif or other metadata when modifying photos or other images?
I'm working on software that allows users to upload photos (or, potentially, any image). The photos are scaled to a maximum size (to save space) and as part of that change to the image I want to copy ...
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Aperture like event view in Lightroom 5
I just purchased Lightroom 5, and am making the switch from Aperture, which I've been using for the last two years, and has all of my 40,000+ images from that time frame.
While I didn't realize that ...
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How do you attach asset tags to camera equipment?
For all you pros out there, how do you handle asset tags on your equipment? It seems easy to apply them to computers, notebooks, external hardrives, and even camera bodies, but how do you handle ...
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Will lightroom sync offline library changes when external drive reconnects?
I want to organize all my photos, so I copied all my folder from all my drives to a single 4TB external drive, and now I want to organize everything and remove duplicates.
What’s the best way to do ...
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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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sorting photos from every minute to every hour
I have a data base of time lapse photos that have been taken for a period of a week, but i made a newbies mistake and set the setting up for a photo every second, filled up my memory drive. Anyways ...
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How can I give an assitant rights to edit without having the possibility to download the image? [closed]
The situation is this one: we are a small photo company. We have a few people going out to shoot various assignments. When they return they hand me the memory cards and I download the images into the ...
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Is there a way to get Lightroom to extract only part of the folder name on export?
I have the photos for the newspaper I'm working at stored in folders named like "YY-MM-DD_name-of-article". I have a folder for each article. Now, in our editorial system, they want them named like "...
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Is there a way to get image names from DSLR to a tethered tablet?
My implementation would be for high volume photography (sorting/post processing)....
If I can get the image name, as the picture is taken, to be sent to a tethered android tablet, I would be able to ...
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What Digital Asset Management software supports multi-user collaborative catalog management?
How can a newspaper group with multiple photographers (15+) that, all-together, take and rate pictures from 3 or 4 events daily, manage a photo catalog?
I've heard of Digital Asset Management before, ...
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Lightroom publish to Facebook: managing existing photos
Is there any way to synchronize existing photos in a given album of a Facebook page with Lightroom's Facebook Publish services? I can add the developed photos to the Publish collection, but I have no ...
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Organizing photos for archival purposes, what format for metadata?
For long term archiving, what metadata format(s) are most likely to be readable in 10, 20, or 30 years? Currently I archive photos by directory in a tree structure starting with year at the top level. ...
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Do you keep all of your photos? [duplicate]
Even though I do a quick edit in camera to remove unwanted shots as I shoot, I still end up with a huge number of shots. I keep and back up in the cloud the ones I am working on for a project and ...
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How can I automatically organize files on disk based on date or other metadata inside Lightroom?
I've been tidying up my external hard drives, which involved merging several Lightroom libraries as well as importing a bunch of stuff that I haven't properly catalogued before. Unfortunately things ...
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How do you organize your photos before you shoot them?
When I go out for a shoot, I often shoot photos that I'd like saved in multiple folders on the SD card, so that I can figure out later what's what.
For example, if I go out to shoot trains, in the ...
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Why is my SDHC card disappearing from the file system after few minutes?
My Nikon sdhc memory card is showing in my computer, but after a few minutes it disappears from the file system. The three things I tried are:
formatted the card
changed my card reader
changed the ...
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How to get back from a print to an image file
I manage a growing collection of jpeg photos (27k so far) for my partner. Aside from the time it takes to accurately tag them all (I only have about 7k of them tagged :( ), everything is fine.
The ...
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How to prevent deleted photos from appearing again when importing from camera?
I use Adobe Lightroom. I import photos daily from the camera, carefully go through the large number of photos and delete (from the PC) the ones I don't like. ...
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How do I move a photo in Lightroom after it's been added but not copied?
Normally when adding photos to Lightroom, I "Copy as DNG" from my camera's SD card to my external hard drive. Recently someone gave me a DVD containing over a thousand images in JPG format, which I ...
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How do you manage your less-than-perfect photos?
If I post pictures on G+ or Picasa for my parents, they complain that they want only to see the best shots - not all of them.
I don't want to have 2 folder trees for primary and secondary photos. Is ...
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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 find all sets of photos taken on the same date across years
I want to create a memories album and for that wanted to find all groups of photos that are on the same date, so that I can see what trend I can show across the years. It's similar to "Today in the ...
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Gather Date taken of photos and make a timeline plot
I wanted to see my trend of digital phototaking over the years. My hypothesis being that there is an upswing each time I acquire a new device (camera, phone ...etc.) and a boost with the advent of ...
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How to create Lightroom 4 import customization using 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 ...
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