Category Archive: Asset management

End-Of-Year Lightroom Chores

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Hello everyone! Wow — it’s already February and we haven’t wished you a “happy new year” yet… So Happy new year and we hope that 2014 has started well for you! May it bring you… Continue reading

How-To: Rate and Tag Images in Lightroom

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Previously I talked about how to structure your image library using a simple naming scheme for files and directories. Today I’ll describe the next — quite difficult and highly subjective — part of… Continue reading

How-To: Name the Files and Directories in Your Image Library

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In the previous article I talked about the wonderful things that happen when you mercilessly sort out your images and build a small and well-organized image library. Today I want to show you how… Continue reading

How-To: Sort Images Without Mercy

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I’m firmly convinced that the biggest strength of Lightroom is not making RAW files pretty, but making it easy to identify our best images from a shoot, organize these in a meaningful way… Continue reading

How-To: Computer Backup and Data Safety

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Last update: 30 April, 2013 This topic is relevant to all computer users, but since this is a photography-related site, let’s put this in a photographic perspective. Say you were on a photo… Continue reading

More Bicycles in the Snow

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I find this image much better than the previous two. I read somewhere that if you cannot explain why something is good, you cannot repeat it, and as a “head person” I tend… Continue reading

New Web-Portfolio: India 2008

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It’s been almost seven weeks since I came back from India, and I’ve finally finished my India 2008 portfolio. I haven’t been lazy or anything — it was just too much work. You… Continue reading

Review of HyperDrive Colorspace

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For my recent trip to India I had to keep the size and weight of my backpack low, so instead of a laptop, I simply took a HyperDrive Colorspace with me. My backup… Continue reading

Cataloging My Old Images

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I switched to digital in December 2003 and since then I’ve probably taken about 15000 images and I’d kept about half of those on my hard drive. But they were not ordered in… Continue reading

Self-Assignment: Best of 2007

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During the last 3-4 months I’ve been looking through my images, deleting the weak ones, rating and adding metadata to the rest. About 40 images received either 4 or 5 stars and should… Continue reading

Working with Master Files

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In the last few days I played some more with my new printer and made nice prints from this image and from the one below. And in that process I gained appreciation for… Continue reading

Next Step: Web Galleries

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Ever since this post I’ve been spending 4-5 hours a week looking through my images: rating, adding metadata, organizing, cataloging and deleting the less interesting ones. This is a difficult, tedious and exciting… Continue reading