Are your files a mess or are you a neat freak?

Thanks for share your knowledge. Always I did love photography. Never I thought I would living from do something I love. But I going to try. It is great listening you talk from your heart.

Billie, My basement IS a mess. One of the things I have too much of is negatives and slides from 35 years of shooting film! My assets, right? hah. But this is an excellent approach that you have to file naming and storage for your digital files. Maybe it's not too late for me. Great to see you doing so well and paying it forward!

So smart. Wish I had this knowledge about 18 zillion files ago. Thank you.

Always love seeing how others do it!

Great video! I organize my year folder a little differently. Instead of all shoots under 2020 in chronological order I put subcategories in 2020 (SENIOR, WEDDING, FAMILY, PERSONAL, SPORTS) and then within those subcategories I do like you with the date for the shoot. Makes finding images even easier! Great tips!

The king of organization.

Gotta be absolutely organized

So helpful. You’re the man for this Billie!

Very helpful. Thank you for sharing this. I'm still working on my workflow. I have demoed PM but did not really understand it in the brief time I had to play around with it, so I'm still using Lightroom to organize and edit as I find it far more intuitive than PS and I have another full time job so I took the path of least resistance. I love the idea of the consistent naming. While I use the same date forget for all my directories, I never thought to rename my files the same. With winter sports on hold locally, I have some time to redo those and also look at PM. I'm also hearing a lot about PhotoShelter as a portfolio site so I'm going to look at that this winter.

Great video Billie!!

Another great tutorial

Huge help man. 👏

This was super duper helpful

Nice tutorial Billie, it's very similar to what I currently do. I noticed you keep your xmp file in your folder, but you didn't mention it. BTW, I also keep my code replacement file of team rooster for easy reference.

Now that we’ve seen your personal photo archive, how about the Boston Red Sox photo archive? Could you go over the folder and file structure for that? Interested to see how to handle this if you work personally and also within an organization.

This is a great and simple process to follow, question I have is that do we retrospectively go back and rename or just start from now on... Do you feel photo mechanic over Lightroom is better for photo management?

Hello Billie, wonderful tutorial! Very helpful! Is there an industry standard for JPG size/resolution? I usually do original size at 300dpi but I'm wondering if that's not whats expected at a higher level in the industry, Thank you!

How much hard drive capacity do you need? I have a mini Mac but considering another one just dedicated to photos, then add on when I run out. What was the two hard drive systems you use?

Great video! Do you think you’ll use photo mechanic plus? For workflows like yours that are so well organized and folder based it seems the database might not be necessary. Thanks for sharing. Will be using some of your methods for my catalog.

Any reason you don't use ingest in PM and add batch caption and rename all at the same time? I find it a lot faster.

Does Adobe have any products that work the same way photo mechanic does?

Awesome Thx

When you have Photo Mechanic, but import initially with your Mac, isn't that an extra step? I really like your original two files though, that makes a lot of sense, I just thought you got ingest software to handle all of that for you.

Do a lot of high school sports name year abbreviate home team away team abbreviate sport 2021TJHSAHSFball then store photos by year sub folder by sport. Do you only tag your edited photos? Player name

That intro is so loud it broke my ears.