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Tool for organising my photos? [duplicate]
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What software is focused on reviewing and organizing images?
Each year I do a long trip in my holidays and take loads of pictures. And each year I have the same problem of ...
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How to delete "unused" raw files which have no .jpg match?
I shoot RAW+JPG, namely NEF and JPG. After viewing sometimes hundreds of images (using a simple program) and deleting the JPGs, I have many unnecessary leftover NEF files. If there was a script to ...
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Workflow for managing, organizing and sharing a large number of "photos of strangers"?
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I'm going to be in a public area taking portraits of many people (for example, at a themed, public event, or while doing a 100 Strangers Project, etc..)
After taking someone's portrait, I ...
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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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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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Multiple instances or windows of Lightroom opened for photo reorganization
I am new to lightroom (Mac) and had been trying to migrate from using acdsee pro inside of a virtual windows machine. The workflow I am tying to achieve used to involve opening two acdsee browser/...
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synchronize photos and folders across 2 external drives? [closed]
What’s the best way/ software to sync two external drive with scattered image folders on a mac. There may be overlap but for the most part both drives are unique as far as image content but may have ...
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Advantages of single vs multiple Aperture libraries?
I have nearly 15 years of digital photos scattered about that come close to 200GB. I bought Aperture last year, but have only now decided to tackle consolidating all these photos.
I think I know how ...
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Free software for sorting images by color or similarity
Is anybody aware of free software that can sort your pictures by overall color (or color of a specific region of an image)?
I've checked this question and looked into imgSeek, but the Mac version ...
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Is there an quicker method (script/plugin) to export sidecar JPEG from Lightroom?
When I import RAW+JPEG in Lightroom I uncheck the option "Treat JPEG files next to raw files as separate photos" because I don't like the clutter this causes.
Sometimes I do want to have a sidecar ...
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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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What free/cheap software would help me wade through 3,000 photos?
I recently went on a 2 week holiday and I took about 3,000 photos (I'm a sucker for taking photos in bursts of 3 or so to catch motion) I'm looking for some software that will let me sift through ...
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Does Apple Aperture provide features to support a RAW+JPEG workflow?
Can any experienced (Apple) Aperture user tell me whether Aperture has decent support for a RAW+JPEG workflow?
For example, can Aperture:
tag both files at the same time with a single key hit?
while ...
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Consolidate photos and eliminate duplicates? [duplicate]
I have a client who is having a lot of trouble managing his photos. He has multiple copies in multiple Aperture and iPhoto libraries, imports from old PCs, etc. What I'm looking for is a piece of ...
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What is an efficient workflow for picking photos from a large set? [duplicate]
In the last couple of days I shot quite a number of images at several locations (been to a concert and conference in another city). Now I wonder how others process large amounts of photos.
Do you ...
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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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Organize messy collection of raw files
Over the years I used different cameras and have a huge messy picture collection.
To be sure not to loose any pictures I copied them several times on different external hard drives changing often the ...
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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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How best to manage multiple virtual copies of an image in Lightroom?
in the process of improving a photo, I often end up with lots of virtual copies (eg. I apply some basic adjustments, then create 3 copies to experiment with, then choose one of these and create a few ...
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Software application(s) for organizing a large number of old pictures [duplicate]
I have about ~40,000 files (~200 GB) of photos on the hard drive (JPG with metadata, from different cameras). I used to use Picasa before, but when I had to switch to a new computer a few years ago, ...
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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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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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Batch move photos to other folder in Lightroom 3
Currently I have my photos organised in Events in Lightroom 3. It also uses a folder structure that looks like this:
Year/dd-mm/Eventname-##.jpg
I figured that it would be easier for me to find a ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How do you organize your photos on your computer? [duplicate]
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How can I better organise and file my photos?
I've just purchased a DSLR camera. As I wait for it to arrive I'm wondering how I'm going to keep my photos organized as they ...
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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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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 layout)....
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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 Lightroom-style hierarchical tagging available in any other applications?
I read this article on tagging and am in love with the idea of tiered tags as an efficient way to apply multiple, related tags. Being a cheapskate and photography amateur at best am looking for the ...
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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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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 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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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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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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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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