I know people love LR and other propietary tools to organize their catalogue. And why not, they offer crazy good tools to search through thousands of images like that.
Personally I don't know. It seems the metadata is so chained inside one particular software.
Some people like Eric Kim suggest that you export all your good works as JPEGs and you rename each and every one individually to help find it later. Not a bad idea because for example I don't come up with many good images in a month so the extra work isn't bad. But then again, I don't always know what image I will treasure and try to find later on. And it can be a lot of work trying to come up with creative names for one's pictures, especially names that help you find the picture 2 years later...
I thought of this new approach just today. Might work, might be too incredible. Okay, here goes: consider you edit and post-process the images that you think are really nice, and then put them in a Word document. You can write all the captions and technical memoirs between the images that you want. You'll end up with this big document but you can search for your text, keywords, things.
Now, I'm not going to use Word for this but some somewhat related things. The main thing is that I end up with a big, flat file with most everything in it, in chronological order. I believe that the tech I'm going to use will not crash even if the doc starts to approach thousands of pages. This could be a real "photo diary" kind of a thing.
Anyone else battling with image organization and doesn't want to rely on any particular propietary solution?
Personally I don't know. It seems the metadata is so chained inside one particular software.
Some people like Eric Kim suggest that you export all your good works as JPEGs and you rename each and every one individually to help find it later. Not a bad idea because for example I don't come up with many good images in a month so the extra work isn't bad. But then again, I don't always know what image I will treasure and try to find later on. And it can be a lot of work trying to come up with creative names for one's pictures, especially names that help you find the picture 2 years later...
I thought of this new approach just today. Might work, might be too incredible. Okay, here goes: consider you edit and post-process the images that you think are really nice, and then put them in a Word document. You can write all the captions and technical memoirs between the images that you want. You'll end up with this big document but you can search for your text, keywords, things.
Now, I'm not going to use Word for this but some somewhat related things. The main thing is that I end up with a big, flat file with most everything in it, in chronological order. I believe that the tech I'm going to use will not crash even if the doc starts to approach thousands of pages. This could be a real "photo diary" kind of a thing.
Anyone else battling with image organization and doesn't want to rely on any particular propietary solution?