Hi All. Sorry if this post is long but I have tried to put all the info to help you understand my issue.
I'm new to this photographic forum (all photographic forums for that matter) but not to photography. I've been taking photos for many years and have built up quite a large collection of digital images. Most of these are family or personal memories. I have for a while been taking photo on a more enthusiastic basis and now go out to take photos rather than take photos when I go out.
I now have over 7,000 (plus another 15,000 personal) despite being ruthless on my return home and deleting those photos I'm not happy with.
I'm now finding my naming convention is no longer effective as many filenames are quite long and windows 10 file explorer (which I use a lot) and other programs don't always display the full filename. It is also getting a bit out of hand when shooting in RAW, editing in Photoshop CC, needing some images in PNG and some in JPG formats. There are also xmp files from PS.
An example and explanation of my naming convention is as follows
YYYY-MM-DD (HH-MM-SS) - Where taken - 012 Date taken (time taken) - Where the photo was taken - reference number.
I can create this naming convention on upload to PC ready to review & delete unwanted images. Deleting images creates gaps in the Ref.No. sequence but I could leave off the number and possibly add it once the selection process is over. Even without the number the name can be too long but Windows 10 doesn't display the date taken correctly (well I can't get it to) with PSD, CR2 & CR3 files in particular and JPG etc. are no better which is why I include time & date so they order 'by name' correctly.
Also CR3 files do not show thumbnail in file explorer and PSD didn't but do now since I installed a little utility.
All the images are stored in directories named YYYY-MM-DD - Where Taken
I would be grateful if forum members would make suggestion as to how to name & store the files for me to work out what would suit me and make it easier to manage.
I have Lightroom CC but their catalogue system seems odd and I struggle with it.
I'm new to this photographic forum (all photographic forums for that matter) but not to photography. I've been taking photos for many years and have built up quite a large collection of digital images. Most of these are family or personal memories. I have for a while been taking photo on a more enthusiastic basis and now go out to take photos rather than take photos when I go out.
I now have over 7,000 (plus another 15,000 personal) despite being ruthless on my return home and deleting those photos I'm not happy with.
I'm now finding my naming convention is no longer effective as many filenames are quite long and windows 10 file explorer (which I use a lot) and other programs don't always display the full filename. It is also getting a bit out of hand when shooting in RAW, editing in Photoshop CC, needing some images in PNG and some in JPG formats. There are also xmp files from PS.
An example and explanation of my naming convention is as follows
YYYY-MM-DD (HH-MM-SS) - Where taken - 012 Date taken (time taken) - Where the photo was taken - reference number.
I can create this naming convention on upload to PC ready to review & delete unwanted images. Deleting images creates gaps in the Ref.No. sequence but I could leave off the number and possibly add it once the selection process is over. Even without the number the name can be too long but Windows 10 doesn't display the date taken correctly (well I can't get it to) with PSD, CR2 & CR3 files in particular and JPG etc. are no better which is why I include time & date so they order 'by name' correctly.
Also CR3 files do not show thumbnail in file explorer and PSD didn't but do now since I installed a little utility.
All the images are stored in directories named YYYY-MM-DD - Where Taken
I would be grateful if forum members would make suggestion as to how to name & store the files for me to work out what would suit me and make it easier to manage.
I have Lightroom CC but their catalogue system seems odd and I struggle with it.