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corkie:
Hi
This is my first post as a newby in microstock.  Having read thro' loads of posts it's obvious that most submit to multiple libraries.  My question is, how do you keep track of what images go where, especially as a lot of folks have a lot of images in lots of places!  What sort of image management do you use. Sorry if the question seems obvious

TreeOfLife:
I use an Excel spreadsheet.  I have columns for image number (example: DSC_1234), title of photo, keywords, "accepted at", "rejected at", notes, and the date.

For me, this keeps it all straight.  I'd be curious to know what others do, as I just made up my own system when I started.

Karen

sharply_done:
I use the simple and cheap power of hard drives.

I have a folder for each agency I submit to. Within each folder are 'Model Releases', 'Next Upload', 'Uploaded', 'Rejected', 'Online' and 'Offline' folders. I name my images in subject-number  fashion (e.g. 'teen122.jpg', 'mountains12.jpg', 'boat63.jpg', ...). When I began shooting stock I used a spreadsheet, then migrated to a database, but I eventually found it too cumbersome to maintain. Sure, keeping things in folders takes up a lot of hard drive space, but managing my portfolios is a cinch.

vphoto:
I have all my 1400 images jpegs  in one folder on my windows XP . And all raw in Lightroom.
Also I backup to 300GB external drive.

sharply_done:

--- Quote from: vphoto on September 11, 2008, 14:10 ---I have all my 1400 images jpegs  in one folder on my windows XP . And all raw in Lightroom.
Also I backup to 300GB external drive.

--- End quote ---

So how do you tell what's online and what isn't? Do you upload everything to everywhere as soon as you create it? I'm guessing you don't bother keeping track of rejections and/or resubmissions.

Thinking about this reminds me of a thread I started about image management and upload scheduling. The overwhelming opinion was that I was wasting my time on such things and would be better off creating new imagery.

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