#1 June 7th, 2005 08:45 AM

fatquack

Member

Trying to get organized

I have been a (extra)-member since nearly the beginning, so now I have almost 50000 pics from ISM on my harddisk and I am starting to have trouble keeping it a bit organized. Originally I sorted on folioname, and when the artistpages were added to the zips I started organizing by artist, and lately I am just disorganized. Is there an easier way than to go through all the archives to get a list of all artists with their folio's and vice versa? A big textfile with artistname-folioname would already be a big improvement.
Can you help me out, Head?
Or does somebody have a better suggestion for organizing the pics?

trebora

Member

Re: Trying to get organized

Heres what im doing.  I've only got about 6 to 7000 pictures so its still easier for me to organize. though im doing the same thing wiht my personal pics and there are probably close to 30000 of those.

I'm using that google picture viewer Picasa2.  Its small, runs smoothly and is free.  I also just found out yesterday it archives to CD very easily.  Of course its personal preferance too.  What i like may not be to your taste. 

Heres how i do it.

folder structure example

ISM
  |-->Aleisha
  |       |-->  Aleisha - Tiger
  |-->Amberrose
  |       |-->  Amberrose - High Jinks
  |       |-->  Amberrose - Loony
  |-->and so on

You can set up collections for grouping folders so I have all of the ISM folders listed under the ISM collection.  You can sort the folders by date, by name or whatever.  THe thing I do like about it is you can make a comment about each folder to display.  So for the comments section I have the artist commnts and bio.  Its not the perfect way but it does what I want with minimal of fuss and its easy to keep the structure up.  The other nice thing about the viewer is that it will play movies though all it allws you to do is play pause and stop.

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SCSIgirl

Member

Re: Trying to get organized

I have been a (extra)-member since nearly the beginning, so now I have almost 50000 pics from ISM on my harddisk and I am starting to have trouble keeping it a bit organized. Originally I sorted on folioname, and when the artistpages were added to the zips I started organizing by artist, and lately I am just disorganized. Is there an easier way than to go through all the archives to get a list of all artists with their folio's and vice versa? A big textfile with artistname-folioname would already be a big improvement.
Can you help me out, Head?
Or does somebody have a better suggestion for organizing the pics?

I'm a photog and have been shooting models for years.  I have to sort by model.  Don't try by date,  it'll drive you crazy.  Unless you have hundreds and hundreds of photos of the same model,  you really don't need sub-folders.  On occaision,  if there was a special shoot,  I'd make a new sub folder.  For example, Lora did a shoot with Firemen.  Since that was one topic,  it got it's own sub folder.

BTW - speaking of viewers:  IrfanView is free, small,  boots quickly and views every format out there, including SUN and some other weird ones.  It's free from PC World or ZD net.

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Head

Member

Re: Trying to get organized

I'm a photog and have been shooting models for years. .

How about posting some samples of your work?

SCSIgirl

Member

Re: Trying to get organized

How about posting some samples of your work?

Most of my work is on 2-1/4 film and has never been scanned down to digital.  (A future project)  I have never put any work on the net for 2 reasons.

The first is that some of my models did nude posing for their own amusement (or boyfriends) and do not want it publicised (sp?)  Some I do not have model releases for.  A couple have gone on to be famous in Hollywood,  2 have gone on to be porn actors,  and one is...  let's say in the publicly elected judicial system in San Jose.

The second is that I'm really concerned with piracy.  None of my few digital works is DigiMarced.  The last thing I want to see is someone using my work or my model to sell his own site.

But it does raise a question:  If a member did want to post extra activities with ISM,  where would they do it?  In a special forum or library, perhaps?

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fatquack

Member

Re: Trying to get organized

I prefer sorting by model too, but not all sites make it as easy as ISM (thanks for the list Head!) to link the pictures to a model. I hate sites where the pictures just go 001.jpg, 002.jpg,....
Trebora: last time I counted I had over 500.000 pictures on my harddisk, not counting the CD's I burned. Picasa is not available for Linux (or is it now?) and all though there are quite a few good imageviewers for Linux, none I found have a good built-in organizing system, so I am still making directories and copying files manually (well, not completely of course), which gets a pain in the ass when I have to do it for several weeks of ISM in one go.
It used to be easier when there was just one update a day :-)

trebora

Member

Re: Trying to get organized

There's no Linux version as far as I can tell for Picasa2 though I did run across a couple blog comments that said it ran very well under WINE.  I'm not a Linux person so I couldn't say what is out there for image viewers.

I don't envy having to catagorize that many files.  Thats why you'll find so many directories on my computers called !!old stuff and !!unsort.

I'm curious what your thoughts are on linux.  It seems to me that these days Linux is the SUV of OS's.

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fatquack

Member

Re: Trying to get organized

I have loads of directories which just have everything from a certain month, and once in a while I get busy and organize a few 1000 pics.

I have been a happy Linux user for six years now, at home and in the office. In the office we have actually replaced most Windows machines with Linux and Macs (for the graphics guys), just three more to go and the only Windows machines we will have left are some stand alone editing machines, which are not much of a problem as they are not connected to anything else.