Photo Mechanic: Recommended Folder Structure for a More Efficient Workflow + Sample Ingest
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- In this video, I show you the folder structure that I use for my workflow. Taking photos is the fun part, managing the images is the boring part. Being efficient with your workflow means you minimize the boring part and can deliver to your client faster and more efficiently.
Photo Mechanic by Camera Bits is the industry standard for photographers who want to view, organize, manage and export their digital photos. Photo Mechanic is used by photographers around the world to save time and deliver images quickly.
Photo Mechanic will make your workflow faster and more efficient. I have spent years optimizing my workflow so that I can shoot more and spend less time in front of the computer.
Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
0:20 Workflow before using Photo Mechanic
0:35 Adding Photo Mechanic to my workflow
1:03 Recommended folder structure
3:00 My Favorites
4:42 Preparing PM for a photoshoot
5:22 Metadata (ITPC) Template
5:59 Ingested images
6:36 Metadata on each image
7:36 Summary
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How perfectly practical. Thanks for showing your setup Jeff. Think I will adapt for my wildlife photography :)
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for this good tips, it's help me regarding how to structure folders.
Glad it was helpful
Fabulous YT vid. Clear. Concise. Informative. Yup, i have Ks of images all in folders but without keywords or truly a hierarchical structure. i was looking at PM or Adobe's Bridge as a possible first step solution. If I may ask, do you also employ PM Plus which has the library/DAM? Again, thanks for the effort and the sharing. If you are ever in NYC, I owe you coffee! Thumbs up.
I had hundreds of thousands of images in Lightroom that did not have sufficient keywords prior to me using PM. I went through a few folders a day adding keywords until I had worked through my entire library. It takes time, but PM is the perfect tool for doing that.
Yes, I use PM Plus and add the images into the catalogue. I use Lightroom, which has its own catalogue, but PM Plus is much, much faster and more granular.
Wow, watching this on a 46” TV and the text is still microscopic. lol. Anyway, good info & I get the point and some good ideas.
I recorded the video in 4K. I tested that it plays back in 4K. I cannot change the size of the PM windows. It shows well on my 27" monitor. Not sure why it would be microscopic on your 46" tv.
Some very helpful videos on your channel. One question - did I miss something or do you only keep your images on Dropbox? I can't believe that's the case but I'd very nervous about doing that without a local backup?
Dropbox can synchronize files between local storage and the cloud. When I ingest images to my laptop, I ingest to my internal SSD. The destination folder is defined as a Dropbox folder, which then synchs to the cloud. So the files are on my local drive AND the cloud. Redundancy is a good thing.
Excellent video yet again 👏
Plenty more planned!
@@jeffvoganphotography looking forward
Brand new to PM. My folder structure on my storage disk is exactly like yours. I hace Pm set up like you have suggested. My question is how exactly are you getting the photos into the folder structure on the storage disk so that light room will always know where they are?
When you import into LR, LR will store the images in the destination you specify. If I want to maintain the folder/subfolder structure, I specify “into original folders” in the LR import dialog.
I can not download the Preferences file, can you fix it? Thanks Anders
I just checked again and i believe that I have all the settings correct. If you can’t download the file, email me at info@sportdad.ca and I will email you the file.
True, the link is not working
help. i have 1000s of pics on my pc in photo folders. how do i AUTOmatically add those unique folder names to the photo EXIF after the fact (because i'm upload to google photos and want to create albums based on those folder names)...thank you. (no sidecars....just adding info to the exif)
I will have to think about that. I can’t think of a way to do that off the top of my head.
It can be done with Exiftool, a commandline tool, but you'd have to ask at their forums, it's very active and helpful. Just Google for it.
You could add the {folder} variable and then evaluate the template and it should replace the variable with the folder name.