Comments on: Improve Your Productivity With Labels

By: Graham Gallagher

Graham Gallagher — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:56:31 +0000

Thanks for a brilliant tip, I have re-organised my images in “pending projects”, so I know what I have to do. Doing it this way is a far more organised way to store images – again thanks.

Graham Gallagher
CEO

By: Bajki dla Dzieci

Bajki dla Dzieci — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:04:22 +0000

I love ideas like this. I’ll finaly get it in order. In the long term it may save me couple hours but I’ll probably spend couple days labeling everything. Still I like doing stuff like that.

By: Mattias Wirf

Mattias Wirf — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:00:26 +0000

I use a Mac so I can colourcode everything in the system! Should use it more… often I’m to lazy.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:29:03 +0000

Great idea I’ve never thought of colour coding before. I’ll definitely start using this in my workflow system.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:14:29 +0000

I keep a Transfer folder where I put all my pictures from the camera. The folders are simply named by the date of the pictures. I keep them there until I’m able to work on them and figure out where they should go. Once I figure out what I want to do with pictures from a folder in the Transfer folder, I rename the folder to date-place-event_description and then move it to “permanent” folder structure.

I wish I could use Lightroom but in the meantime I might add words in the folder name to indicate PROGRESS for the images I’m working on. This seems like a good idea.

By: bee

bee — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:09:54 +0000

Somehow I not yet found my way to Bridge. I use the Windows Explorer and Picasa… but now I’ll try Bridge again, this idea using colors simply is great.

By: JasonP

JasonP — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:56:47 +0000

I use colors a lot in Lightroom, but to keep like sets/sequences of photos together. For example, a time lapse sequence of 5 shots of the night sky will get a color, the next composition sequence will get the next. The same for focus-bracketing (macro shots), Exposure Bracketing, or maybe a burst of photos in a sequence that I want to have a quick visual of the group.

For folders I haven’t processed… no amount of labeling is going to help with that. I have hundreds! Generally though, I just work my way through a folder at a time, remembering which one I’m working on as the new ones pile up

By: Andrew M

Andrew M — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:49:37 +0000

Hmm… scratch previous comment – forgot about filtering… time to play with colors in Lightroom a bit more… thanks for the inspiration to look at this!

Cheers,

Andrew

By: Andrew M

Andrew M — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:34:10 +0000

Hey Brian,

loving the idea of color coding that I would almost consider switching from Lightroom to Bridge to be able to do this in my processing workflow, as I’ve not found an easy way of color labelling an entire folder in Lightroom yet…

Currently I use Collections for my import/in progress/completed folders, which doesn’t work very well admittedly…

Might give Bridge a go…

Cheers,

Andrew