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Folders and PSE

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HBarrison

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I have been using PSE since 2007 and really enjoy to filing system/organization. I recently swithched to Lightroom Classic for the broader editing features. I keep all my imagesm on a 5TB external, so room is not an issue. I am thinking of continuing to take my SD cards used on trips and upload to my "P" Drive using a temporary folder and from there review my imaages and decide on the final folders for selected images. Say I am in Antarctica and make a stop each day on a different island or floe. I upload my images in a generic Folder and then create new Folders for each day's shoot - NO EDITING of images for quality just subject.

Then I would upload to Lightroom Classic using the Drive and new folder for the Upload and then move the entire folder to the workspace for processing/editing the image in Lightroom. After the editing I generally delete the rejects and upload my keepers to Flickr Albums.
Am I missing something that would make my workflow FAIL - time is not a factor as this is my retirement hobby
:slightly_smiling_face:
- I do not do this as a profession and focus on TRAVEL, WILDLIFE, NATURE, in general - no weddings etc. Your thoughts.
 
I have been using PSE since 2007 and really enjoy to filing system/organization. I recently swithched to Lightroom Classic for the broader editing features. I keep all my imagesm on a 5TB external, so room is not an issue. I am thinking of continuing to take my SD cards used on trips and upload to my "P" Drive using a temporary folder and from there review my imaages and decide on the final folders for selected images. Say I am in Antarctica and make a stop each day on a different island or floe. I upload my images in a generic Folder and then create new Folders for each day's shoot - NO EDITING of images for quality just subject.

Then I would upload to Lightroom Classic using the Drive and new folder for the Upload and then move the entire folder to the workspace for processing/editing the image in Lightroom. After the editing I generally delete the rejects and upload my keepers to Flickr Albums.
Am I missing something that would make my workflow FAIL - time is not a factor as this is my retirement hobby
:slightly_smiling_face:
- I do not do this as a profession and focus on TRAVEL, WILDLIFE, NATURE, in general - no weddings etc. Your thoughts.

Do all of your organization in Lightroom Classic. You can begin by migrating your PSE library(?) into Lightroom. While organizing by folder has it limitations, there is nothing wrong with maintaining your existing folder organization.

In addition to the limited organization provided by the filesystem, In Lightroom Classic, you have a more flexible organization using Collections, Smart Collections and keywords.

For new imports I would suggest that you choose a default folder structure. After importing, you have a special collection of “Most recent Import”. You can in Lightroom work that special collection to move images into folders of your choosing using drag and drop. After you have culled the most recent import, you can delete any image remaining in that special collection. Your next import will contain only new imported images and the previously imported images not moved to a new folder will remain in will remain in the folder assigned at import but no longer available in the “Most recent Import” special collection because they were imported before the latest import.


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