struggling to get a handle on DAM for my artwork

[Sossity Corby]

so far the whole DAM system has worked out for most of my original photos shot. But I am not sure how to handle photos I shoot of my art, it consists of daily progress shots of my art, & final shots of finished artwork.

should I have a separate directory for this? like a series of buckets for photos of artwork? or put these photos in with my other general photos? what about a directory for scans of my art? I scan photos & slides of my art as well

I wondered about this because the general bucket system does not seem to fit as well with my art, as I have written & typed documents for my art as well. So far I have organized these by media. I often go back & update these documents.

[Sossity Corby]

oops, forgot to sign, does not seem to be an option to modify a post after it is posted, so I will sign;

Sossity

[Roelof]

Sossity,

The DAM book covers this extensively, did you read it?
You could also visit dpBestflow at the topic 'file handling' (http://www.dpbestflow.org/links/38
Roelof

[Sossity Corby]

Yes, I have read the 1st edtion of this book, & from what I could see it mostly covered the directory structure of buckets for artistic photographs there were no chapters that dealt with photos of artwork?

In the book, it described using the os system on your computer to set up buckets & a directory structure.

could someone clue me in on the extensive coverage of organizing photos for artwork? as someone has told me here, is this in the 2and edtion of the dam book?

Sossity

[johnbeardy]

Why adopt a different system? Why look for complication? Whatever the intended purpose of the images, whether they are photos or illustrations, they can go through the same workflow and folders and you'd just use metadata, as always, to categorise them. But if you want additional folder structures, go that way.

John

[Sossity Corby]

Why adopt a different system? Why look for complication? Whatever the intended purpose of the images, whether they are photos or illustrations, they can go through the same workflow and folders and you'd just use metadata, as always, to categorise them. But if you want additional folder structures, go that way.

John

I am thinking it would be simpler just to place all or nearly all my types of original photos in a single directory structure with buckets from now on, but I have backed up to discs many of my original Raw folders that had just my more artistic photos, my art photos & other I have placed in a separate directory structures, should I go & burn those separate structures to discs, or move all my original photo types/merge them with my more artistic ones into the single directory structure & reburn new discs from the newly merged directory structures? this might create some duplicate discs, & have me going back over some of my Raw folders.

Another way would be for me to go & burn my other original photo types to discs, & not try to merge them with all my other past Raw folders, but just from now on place everything -all types of original photos together.

Sossity