I want to immediately say that this is just a note and is designed to show you how to work with photos. In my description, I rely on the fact that a person has a camera that allows you to take pictures in RAW format. For those who do not have such an opportunity in the cell - just skip all the references to this and that's it.
Transfer to computer ')
Before copying directly, I create a new folder with the name of the place or event where the shooting took place in the shared folder for all the photos. Sometimes, in case of coincidence I add the date to the title.
Further, without any third-party programs, I copy photos directly from the card into the folder created for them. After that, immediately in the folder with photos I create two more subfolders: Edited and JPEG. The Edited folder is intended for photos processed from the Raw format that are saved there in TIFF format without compression (yes, the size of such a snapshot is about 30 MB, or even more, but for post-processing just in case you need the least compressed snapshot). The same frames fall into the JPEG folder, but in JPEG format. Why double? Everything is simple - for the Internet.
Cataloging
This stage of work involves working with the program, which should be able to: • Present a set of photos in a user-friendly form. • To be able to catalog them and sort by albums / collections / libraries • Label photos (note: not tags, but tags in the sense that the photo is selected)
For myself, I chose Google Picasa. She immediately finds all the images added to the same shared folder. For ease of display, I turn off the display of Raw files for reasons of duplicating them with JPEG options and a longer opening time (although it pleases someone as much as you like). In the program, I mark the photos (asterisk), and she stores them in a separate collection. Further, in order to select a file for processing, but not to look for it, I use the “Find on disk” function.
Treatment
I will not go into the details of photo processing, because This is a personal matter. After each photo is processed, the star (in Picasa) is removed from the photo, thereby excluding it from the list selected for editing. But the most important thing is that after all the operations done, the photos are packaged in the above named folders.