I know some of you are quite the photo-weeny, and I'm looking for information on what you use for your photo workflow (digital or film; although I take almost exclusively digital photos
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You probably want to be using a photo database program like F-Spot (which I use), Picasa, and iPhoto.
These allow you to crop and adjust color and such without ever touching the file system. They save the original and the new version. Plus they make it easy to upload to many photo sharing sites.
I hate iPhoto with the blazing passion of many many stars. I have a large fondness for actual having the file names be what I want them, not IMGxxxxx_xxx.JPG. While possibly newer iPhoto lets you do this, I wouldn't know, since I purged it from my hard drive.
At certain levels I do want to touch the hard drive, and at others I don't, but file organization is one of them. I don't think Picasa is out for mac yet (which I suppose I should have specified I was using) and of course F-Spot is GNOME.
And my server in this case is my personal server, so I just do that from the terminal with a happy perl file.
But I want to know what *you* do :) I am looking to synthesize information, rather than get advice , generally. I know what my quirks are about file storage, but don't really want to get into religious spats over them, although I let that first paragraph go a little above
I see. I've given up on files and file names. I just found managing thousands of pictures using directories was too cumbersome.
The fact that F-Spot is GNOME means all you have to do is apt-get install f-spot, assuming you have apt installed.
One more suggestion: You could symlink (or hard link) to the files stored in a photodatabase; I assume they all keep the files somewhere. I know F-Spot has one giant directory of IMG_xxxx.JPG (or IMG_xxxx-n.JPG to avoid dupes).
My online storage is also gallery, which does use a directory based structure (although I still use gallery1, which actually doesn't use a *hierarchical* directory structure on disk, which is interesting. It stores all the hierarchy information in metadata. But it does mean there is a shorter static link to each directory, even if it is a subdirectory).
I really want to think this seriously through, cause if I do so, I want to make sure it's all "kilroi standard compliant", whatever I pick that to be :)
I am lame, I just use iPhoto to browse through my stuff. For editing, I just use the GIMP, which is what I've used for image editing since before I got a Mac. None of this is super, it's just convenient.
I do have one recommendation, though, which is using a back-up hard drive. As a laptop person, I get so much peace of mind knowing that my photos are in two places. If you keep stuff on your server and your laptop, that's awesome, but if you just leave your photos on your server, it still might be worth it to have a back-up hard drive. I keep all of the original media (photos, video footage, and text work) I have in both places.
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These allow you to crop and adjust color and such without ever touching the file system. They save the original and the new version. Plus they make it easy to upload to many photo sharing sites.
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At certain levels I do want to touch the hard drive, and at others I don't, but file organization is one of them. I don't think Picasa is out for mac yet (which I suppose I should have specified I was using) and of course F-Spot is GNOME.
And my server in this case is my personal server, so I just do that from the terminal with a happy perl file.
But I want to know what *you* do :) I am looking to synthesize information, rather than get advice , generally. I know what my quirks are about file storage, but don't really want to get into religious spats over them, although I let that first paragraph go a little above
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The fact that F-Spot is GNOME means all you have to do is apt-get install f-spot, assuming you have apt installed.
One more suggestion: You could symlink (or hard link) to the files stored in a photodatabase; I assume they all keep the files somewhere. I know F-Spot has one giant directory of IMG_xxxx.JPG (or IMG_xxxx-n.JPG to avoid dupes).
As for what I do:
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I really want to think this seriously through, cause if I do so, I want to make sure it's all "kilroi standard compliant", whatever I pick that to be :)
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I do have one recommendation, though, which is using a back-up hard drive. As a laptop person, I get so much peace of mind knowing that my photos are in two places. If you keep stuff on your server and your laptop, that's awesome, but if you just leave your photos on your server, it still might be worth it to have a back-up hard drive. I keep all of the original media (photos, video footage, and text work) I have in both places.
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