Delete all screenshots (no one is taking screenshots unless by accident).Then within each person’s folder, here is what is happening: Part 2: Processing Photos & Videos As I mentioned in Part 1, the first step is importing all the P&V off our cameras and phones into their respective folders (by name). Screenshots of my Hazel folders and Dropbox folders are below. Finally a folder is created to copy the approved pictures to so it can be uploaded to Flickr and then deleted (easier this way for a variety of reasons mostly related to the script I use for auto Flickr importing). This can be done by anyone in the family. In order to keep our library cleansed, no file can be included in the master library until it has been reviewied. While we have a DSLR, a majority of our photos and videos come from phones and as such, many of the files are not worth keeping. Next step is to create a folder for reviewing the files. I use an app on our iPhones for automatically importing the P&V into the correct folder which makes this happen seamlessly (more on this later). I do this because I want to tag the files by author automatically as it helps with discovery later on (a big portion of my workflow). The first part of the workflow involves creating separate folders in my Dropbox account for each person who might add P&V to our library. Next, if you are like me and my family, generally you will have multiple people taking photos and videos (P&V) and then you will want to import them into your photo/video library. In my case, I keep photos and videos separate so I have a Main_Photos and Main_Videos folders. Part 1: Folder Set-up and General Workflow Downloads: Hazel Rules The very first thing you should do is create a folder(s) which will serve as your top level directory for housing your photos and videos. This enables you to take them out of the database file and export them into folder structure format. Note: I am not including how I moved all my photos from iPhoto into Dropbox, however, I will mention that the easiest way I found was to actually leverage Aperture (which I already had) to open the iPhoto database and then change all photos to whats called referenced masters. Bottom line is that this gives me tremendous flexibility with my photos for future use and also enables me to access my photos from anywhere while easily sharing old and new photos. I tend to be wordy in my posts so apologies in advance but you are who you are. Not going to go into the whole thought process on why I moved from iPhoto to Dropbox/Flickr but feel free to PM me if you want more background. This is going to be a long post but after weeks of testing, I have a process I am very happy with for managing my photos in Dropbox using Hazel and automatically uploading them to Flickr.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |