Archive

[wweasel]

Hello,
I have a lot of digital photo's to archive. At the moment I don't know what to use; Lightroom 2.3 or PS/Bridge CS4. Is it better to put all the pictures in one directorary and then give them numbers like 78-0221, J-221, F-16A, 322 Sqn, RNethAF etc.? I know a lot of people have a very good archive to find a special picture in a very short time. Any suggestions/help? Thanks.

Regards!

[bramos]

I'm not into military photography, but I do quite a lot of civil stuf. I mainly use Ps and Br to edit and view them. The filenames are fairly simple: just the registration. The pics go in a folder (with the date and place), which go in another folder (with a certain registration).

I'm pretty good at registrations, so I mostly know which aircraft is on certain pics. If I don't, I just browse my registrations-list, in which I've added info as aircraft model, name, airline and (if there are any) remarks. Works fine for me!

[nilsko]

Why don't use metatags when using Lr? This is much more flexible to use. You can preconfigure a whole tree according to your own wishes and assign the metatags afterwards.