My Workflow | Part 2: The Import on Phill Price | Photography

My Workflow | Part 2: The Import

Yesterday I showed you the GeoTagging part of the process, today’s quite a short one (it is Boxing Day after all)

The import screen has a few differences as standard, although there is an extra piece I’d like (can anyone help?) I’d like to automatically place them in yyyy/yyyy-mm/yyyy-mm-dd rather than yyyy/yyyy-mm-dd, just for browsability later.

My photo import screen

I don’t bother changing the filename on import – it seem overkill when there’s metadata involved
If you’re mad you can put a develop setting on import – although beware that you can’t undo it afterwards, slightly annoying
I set the box to create 1:1 presets, it saves time later.
I put import wide keywords in now, most of the time for me that’s a location, season and an upcoming tag, although I should set up location metadata hierarchies
Lastly I add my copyright / contact info in as a Metadata Preset – saves a huge chunk of time, as below…

The Metadata preset - all the global stuff!

Above you can see the Metadata preset I set up – basic contact and copyright information, this doesn’t damage the other metadata (specifically location items form the Geotagging) and gives a good grounding for the future – although I don’t put my full location in there ;) Ad yes up until today I had the wrong email and “All Rghts Reserved” in there, oops!

Tomorrow… smart collections! See you then!

4 Comments

Breandan
12pm, 31/12/08

You may also want to consider http://www.getdropbox.com - 2 GB free/50 GB paid (for $10/month). Does file checksums to avoid the "moved file is backed up again" problem, among other really cool things. And it's seamlessly cross platform, which can be handy.

Brian Auer
5pm, 31/12/08

Hey Phill, I don't have an index on the series yet... I just have one or two more articles to write, then I'll post a roundup along with a big PDF of everything. And Happy New Year!

Brett Veenstra
11am, 01/01/09

Hey Phill! Thanks for a Great series - it was nice to see another Lightroom users perspective and actual use on the application. I currently use JungleDisk with Amazon S3 for my offline backup. Very happy with it so far! Happy New Year!

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