Photography: usability
Preamble
I want to say right away that this is just a note and is designed to show 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 a computer
Before directly copying, in the shared folder for all the photos, I create a new folder with the name of the place or event where the shooting took place. Sometimes, with coincidences, I add a date to the name.
Then, without any third-party programs, I copy the photos directly from the card to the folder created for them. After that, I immediately create two more subfolders in the folder with photos: Edited and JPEG. The Edited folder is intended for photos processed from the Raw format, which are saved there in TIFF format without compression (yes, the size of such a picture can be on the order of 30 MB, or even more, but for post-processing just in case you need as much compressed picture as possible). The same frames get to the JPEG folder, but in JPEG format. Why take? Everything is simple - for the Internet.
Cataloging
This stage of work involves working with a program that should be able to:
• Present a set of photos in a user-friendly way
• Be able to catalog them and sort them by albums / collections / libraries
• Assign tags to photos (and note: not tags, but tags in the sense that the photo is selected)
For myself, I chose Google Picasa. She immediately finds all the pictures added to the same shared folder. For ease of display, I turn off the display of Raw files for the reasons of duplicating them with JPEG options and opening them longer (although here I really like it). In the program, I mark photos (with an asterisk), and she stores them in a separate collection. Further, to select a file for processing, but not to search, I use the "Find on disk" function.
Treatment
I will not go into the details of processing photos, because This is a personal matter for everyone. After processing each photo, an asterisk (in Picasa) is removed from the photo, thereby excluding it from the list of photos selected for editing. But the most important thing is that after all the operations done, the photos are put up in the above folders.
I want to say right away that this is just a note and is designed to show 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 a computer
Before directly copying, in the shared folder for all the photos, I create a new folder with the name of the place or event where the shooting took place. Sometimes, with coincidences, I add a date to the name.
Then, without any third-party programs, I copy the photos directly from the card to the folder created for them. After that, I immediately create two more subfolders in the folder with photos: Edited and JPEG. The Edited folder is intended for photos processed from the Raw format, which are saved there in TIFF format without compression (yes, the size of such a picture can be on the order of 30 MB, or even more, but for post-processing just in case you need as much compressed picture as possible). The same frames get to the JPEG folder, but in JPEG format. Why take? Everything is simple - for the Internet.
Cataloging
This stage of work involves working with a program that should be able to:
• Present a set of photos in a user-friendly way
• Be able to catalog them and sort them by albums / collections / libraries
• Assign tags to photos (and note: not tags, but tags in the sense that the photo is selected)
For myself, I chose Google Picasa. She immediately finds all the pictures added to the same shared folder. For ease of display, I turn off the display of Raw files for the reasons of duplicating them with JPEG options and opening them longer (although here I really like it). In the program, I mark photos (with an asterisk), and she stores them in a separate collection. Further, to select a file for processing, but not to search, I use the "Find on disk" function.
Treatment
I will not go into the details of processing photos, because This is a personal matter for everyone. After processing each photo, an asterisk (in Picasa) is removed from the photo, thereby excluding it from the list of photos selected for editing. But the most important thing is that after all the operations done, the photos are put up in the above folders.