NAMING FILES
With film you could get away with being disorganized, of having that just-throw-them-in-the-shoebox attitude. When you needed to find an image you could just pull down the overflowing shoebox from the closet shelf and sift through the images until you found what you were looking for. This is not the case with digital photographs. In fact, if you have continued this practice of throwing your images into your digital shoebox, I call you to repentance. You penance, however, is not as simple as saying ten Hale Mary's and an hour of community service. You have some work do. But you'll thank me in the end (yes, Mother). When it comes down to it, there are really only two things you need to worry about when managing your digital images: editing and organization.
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Read More...Managing your Digtial Image Files
Your shoeboxes are full of them. They are falling out of your albums. And now they are stuffed into one gigantic folder on your computer, eating up memory like a linebacker at Chuck-A-Rama. You need help, fast.
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Post Processing
Here is how I handle the entire process, so hopefully it makes sense. Do the shot of course ;}, process the images, all the images are shot in RAW format which means they hold the information on the images but you can't see it if you look at it. That is why I don't give any RAW images.
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FILE TYPES
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of file types out there. But for digital imagery, you only have to worry about a small handful. I'm just going to talk about the most common and universally accepted file types. Knowing the different types of files, what they do, and how you can use them to your benefit will greatly increase the efficiency of your digital work flow.
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Read More...BACKING UP YOUR FILES
I'm sitting at the coffee shop on a Sunday morning in a leather manhattan chair. My soy latte is cooling on the end table to my left. The Shins are playing in the background as I wave to a friend who just walked in the door. I'm working in PhotoShop, removing a few pieces of lint from the model's black blazer when my mouse freezes. I can't force quit. I can't ctrl+alt+del. I hold down the power button to shut off the machine. I wait 15 seconds and turn it back on. It seems to be booting up just fine. Then, the blue screen of death appears. I'm not too worried. I reboot. Blue screen. I reboot. Blue screen. I'm sweating now. I have 6 photo shoots on there which have not been delivered to the client. I don't have a backup of my contacts. I have dozens of emails which have vital information from my job search. I haven't backed up for months.
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