 Pat Harry |
Organing (and finding!) digital photos I could use some suggestions on how to manage my growing number of digital photos. I have Microsoft Expression Media, but it is so, so, so slow. (I have a pretty powerful machine, so that's not the problem.) I also have ThumbsPlus, which is faster, but the keywords from Bridge don't transfer. And viewing a RAW file in ThumbsPlus is very slow. Has anyone found the perfect solution? I want to be able to Thanks!
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Setting that up and maintaining it adequately will require lots and lots of time, effort, skill, and knowledge. You need to get a head hunter snare you a seasoned FlickR SysAdmin, Pat. Good luck!
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- Carlton Ward Contact Carlton Ward Carlton Ward's Gallery |
Hi Pat, Sounds like a similar problem I had a while back. I added more RAM & faster internal drive and still Bridge & working with RAW/TIFF images were slow & frustrating. I decided to get a new computer and being a long time PC user, I looked at a lot of Vista machines. I decided to get an IMAC instead and have not regretted this decision at all. It aint cheap especially when you have to get new software to go with it, but it is so fast and easy (once I learned to use the MAC) and it is a joy again to do my work. I mostly use CS3 and Corel Painter on my machine. Bridge is much faster as well as working with large image files. As far as storage, I keep an active 500gig hard drive to work out of and use my 320gig internal drive for temporary files. I also back up everything to another 500g drive and burn DVDs of my images. I keep my folders labled by year and event (since I cant remember dates). Everyone does this a little different but I can remember the year and event of a specific photo easier than a date. So I will have a folder HSMF06 (High Sierra Music Festival 2006) photos listed in folder 2006 and subfolder HSMF06. I rename the images as HSMF06_001 etc.. I sometimes create other subfolders such as raw, tiff & jpeg folders because I will have HSMF06_001.cr2 or .jpg that are the same image saved as different formats. I set up this system because I had a hard time viewing raw images and it was easier to view the jpegs and then open the raw image in Photoshop. I dont really need to do this anymore because both raw & jpg images populate Bridge very fast. I have HSMF folders going back for the last 8 years and can usually remember a specific image and find it quickly using bridge to open the folder and scanning the thumbnails. I can easily find any image connected to my MAC from any drive just using bridge and MAC also has a very efficient integrated locater as part of their OS. My current IMAC is 24" screen with 2.4ghz processor & 2gig RAM. My MS/XP PC has 2.8ghz processor and 3gig RAM and is way way slower. The IMAC has been my perfect solution. My .02 and then some.... Carlton
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