Saturday, February 27, 2010

Digital Workflow - Catalog Structure


"This gives me a headache".  That was Cliff Lester's comment on the workflow structure I submitted a couple of weeks ago.  He probably understands that it is giving me a headache too.  I'm still struggling with how to create a LightRoom catalog in a way that allows me to have current projects on a small external drive I can pop in my bag and carry with me - it's a nightmare.  The only bright spot is that I still believe it will be great when I finally do have a coherent and workable catalog with all my images - well actually two catalogs: one with all my originals and a second one with all the selects and edited versions.  What a wonderful world that will be.

I finally came up with some broad categories that seem to work for me.  

Client Work - Capturing Treasured Moments (I thought that was pretty clever :)
Fine Art - Travel, Flowers, Abstracts.....
Instruction and Training - Class Assignments and other workshop captures
My Groups - Iota, Links, Red Hatters ...
Personal Work -  Family and Friends and stuff like that..

There are a large number of sub categories that still seem to overlap - but I'm making progress.



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