organizing scans in my derivitives folders and edited versions of orig photos

[Sossity Corby]

Anybody suggest how they organize these? I have been told that scans best go into the derivatives directory. Should I lump all my different scan types together?

ie; I make many types of scans in .tiff & .jpg from old family photos, scans of hand written notes, & yet other scans of ticket stubs & concert fliers, and sketchbooks and so on. would I combine all these into a single directory with buckets? do I divide the .jpgs from the .tiffs? should I have separate directories for .tiffs & .jpg scans no matter what they are scans of?

and would it be best to have a separate directory for scans from say edited photos? like .PSD, & other edited photos from a camera?

ie;

Derivatives > scans > a directory with buckets for all my scans of different things like photos,tickets stubs, notes, certificates etc, & my sketchbooks, with both .tiffs & .jpgs together



or Derivatives > scans > directory of different .tiff scans  and Derivatives > scans > directory of different .jpg scans

and

Derivatives > a directory with buckets for edited original photos from a camera.


Sossity

[johnbeardy]

You're overthinking this. Whack them all into the same folders, and use keywords etc to categorise them.

John

[Sossity Corby]

You're overthinking this. Whack them all into the same folders, and use keywords etc to categorise them.

John

would it be better to place all these different derivative file types within subfolders with brief descriptions within in each bucket in the derivatives directory?

ie; Derivitives > Der_001 > folder > family photo scans, another folder, ticket stubs, etc.

or I saw in another thread that Peter has a directory of buckets for camera scans, perhaps I should have a directory of scans from my flatbed scanner?

Sossity

[johnbeardy]

If you want, yes, but no if you don't - the overall Der001 folder is the crucial one.

John

[markpirozzi]

"...or I saw in another thread that Peter has a directory of buckets for camera scans, perhaps I should have a directory of scans from my flatbed scanner?"

Peter has done tens of thousands of camera scans I believe.  I wouldn't be surprised if he's done 200K.  It makes sense for him, but may not for you.  I don't have the quantity to justify a separate directory in my mind. 

I think of raw scans as originals (digital originals) and a pixel edited version as a derivative, so the raw scans (flat-bed, camera scans) go with my digital camera originals and the pixel edited versions go with the derivatives.

I don't do much video.  But I don't like the idea of mixing 1 or 2 or more gigabyte files with my still originals, so personally I would have a separate directory for videos.

Mark