SmugMug Live! Episode 60 - Adam Pratt - ‘Organizing a Photo Archive’

Can you easily find, enjoy, license, and share your photos? If you feel overwhelmed by your photos, then join this SmugMug livestream with professional photo organizer Adam Pratt. He organizes millions of photos every year and will share some of the photo management best practices he’s developed over the last 25 years.

Adam Pratt loves people, photography, and a good story!
He’s spent the last 25 years at the intersection of creativity and technology as a photographer, author, software trainer, and photo organizer.
He’s also the founder of Chaos to Memories where he helps people enjoy their photos again by turning their photo chaos into precious memories they can enjoy and share.

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[Diaryofamom]

Hello Adam! I purchased your book and its amazing!! Im just about finished with the gathering process and ready for deduplicating. the link you provided for dupegugu does not work- can you send me the download? i have 6 TB of images to go through and need the most effective software!

[jameslafferty]

I have found that the most difficult part of orginizing your library, is to delete the less perfect photo's

[RandyPollock]

Very good episode, the only issue for us Fuji guys that use C1, we can't convert to DNG and have it work with C1.

[BruceOnLocation]

Do you have a service to log in remotely and reorganize someone drives?

[zemniimages]

This was quite useful. But the point about only keeping RAW files is only really valid if you are just a photographer who does all your Photobooks or web galleries from Lightroom. Professional book design and layout programmes like Adobe InDesign or web design programmes/sites eg Wordpress or even video programmes like Premiere/After Effects do not yet work with RAW files, and they are not always searchable to import into documents, it is a real pain then to have to keep reformatting. So that is one reason to keep eg TIFS or PSD format versions as well. Either in format-specific folders or project-specific assets. I think that issue should have been flagged up before suggesting everything except RAW files should be deleted. Particularly now there are SMUGMUG services like Source where these other formats can be archived for sharing.