Looking for portfolio workflow / file organisation advice

M Robijns

• March 10, 2022 18:23

Hi all,

what is your portfolio workflow?
I work with C1 Sessions. Only the recent ones are on my computer or laptop or external drive.
I want to have one central folder that contains 3 other folders website, social media, portfolio.

That way I can easily access my images easily and have an overview of everything. This should make posting on instagram for example a lot easier.

I was thinking of gathering all my preferred images (edited exported Jpegs) in one central folder, and then use C1 to organize/categorize/tag/... and have it export to the 3 folders mentioned above.
But there might be better options or workflows out there?
I see a problem if I would use a catalog for this. As with a catalog I'd have to import the ones I added to the folder with my preferred images each time.

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  M Robijns

  • March 11, 2022 22:41

  I'm not sure if I understood your workflow completely.
  But from what I understood it seems more or less a similar approach.
  
  Each project has a session folder.
  RAW is kept in capture folder
  Edited exports in the output folder

  These get backed up to HDD.
  
  For the central portfolio folder I would copy the best images (final edits in jpeg)
  I would import these into C1 or maybe something else with (more) DAM capabilities.
  From there it gets exported to 2 folders (Social Media / Website) that are accessible from anywhere.
  
  Would something like Digikam be better suited than a C1 catalog or session for the portfolio folder?
  The adjustments you talk about would not be a real issue I think. Since the files are already edited
  Or am I misunderstanding something?

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  M Robijns

  • March 20, 2022 15:28

  I tried Digikam.
  It has a bit of a learning curve but I managed it. 

  Digikam is pretty good, but I found a few things that made me choose a C1 session for now.
  Mainly not being easy to use on two computers, the same file / database.
  
  I know a C1 session is not made for portfolio catalog.
  But I don't want to import files every time, as I will forget this sometimes and it will become a mess.
  I tried the hot folder thing in a catalog. But it had a failure on a few photo's. Not displaying any error, but just not showing up (seeing the amount of photo's in folder and in C1).
  
  Still advice, tips and tricks are very welcome

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