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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 400706" data-attributes="member: 9240">Organizing starts but does not end with good folder organization and naming conventions.&nbsp; If you're sharing online, particularly with an interest in generating interest and getting people to actually see your photos, comprehensive metadata management and image tagging (and geo-tagging) are incredibly important.&nbsp; From a commercial point of view, maintaining lists (i.e. collections) of what photos have been published, which are available commercially, which have usage rights agreements currently active, potential contest shots, etc., is not just more than practical but downright essential.&nbsp; Moving files around, IMO, is dangerous because, well, stuff gets lost or broken in a move, no matter how careful you are.&nbsp; Lightroom allows me to put them somewhere and access that one copy from a bunch of different places without ever having to make a copy or move it around.&nbsp; That's something you just can't do with folders and naming conventions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 400706, member: 9240"] Organizing starts [U][I]but does not end with[/I][/U] good folder organization and naming conventions. If you're sharing online, particularly with an interest in generating interest and getting people to actually see your photos, comprehensive metadata management and image tagging (and geo-tagging) are incredibly important. From a commercial point of view, maintaining lists (i.e. collections) of what photos have been published, which are available commercially, which have usage rights agreements currently active, potential contest shots, etc., is not just more than practical but downright essential. Moving files around, IMO, is dangerous because, well, stuff gets lost or broken in a move, no matter how careful you are. Lightroom allows me to put them somewhere and access that one copy from a bunch of different places without ever having to make a copy or move it around. That's something you just can't do with folders and naming conventions. [/QUOTE]

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