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h e third set of previous examples is the convention I use. I start my names with the
subject or location, because it's more important to me than when the photograph
was made. When I'm looking for something, I like to have my folders organized
alphabetically by subject. For example, if I'm looking for a photo I made in Colorado,
it's easy to remember the location as the Great Sand Dunes National Park, but I wouldn't
necessarily remember the dates I was there.
I also append a code to the end of the names of derivative i les, such as “M” for Master
(for layered composites), pixel dimension of the longest side (usually for Web jpg i les),
or text indicating the purpose of the i le. h is illustrates the importance of keeping your
base i le names short.
Do what makes sense to you
Many photographers like to organize their folders by date i rst, beginning with top-
level folders for each year. It really doesn't matter, as long as your system is consistent.
If you have large numbers of i les in your historical archives that you don't feel deserve
your taking the time to change their names, don't worry too much about it now. h e
important thing is to nail down a system and use it going forward. At er you've lived
with it for a while, you can decide if anything needs reworking and if older i les should
be renamed to i t the new conventions.
Backups
Every computer user knows that backing up your i les is critical. Still, I'd be negligent
if I didn't remind you
to actually do it.
Religiously. In the digital photography workl ow
there's absolutely no excuse to risk losing all your work.
Update your backups at er
every work session!
People accidentally lose important computer data every minute of every day. Usually it's
because of user error (deleting something unintentionally) but equipment failure is also
common.
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