Organiser and 'negatives'

[wjw44]

Hi!

I still cannot decide to use the Organiser.

My pictures are stored in Windows folders. Some of them contain processed photos and a subfolder called 'negatives' with images originally downloaded from the camera and some only the 'negatives' subfolder. The 'negatives' are e.g. from 2006, some of them were processed a month or two later but some after two years.

Question: Will the Organiser show pictures from the same vacations as taken over three year period?

Additionally, should I let the Organiser see the 'negatives' at all?

Regards,

Wlady

P.S. One more thing. The pictures are numbered 001... in every folder. Does it matter?

[dj_paige]

I still cannot decide to use the Organiser.

Go ahead and use it! After you get used to it, you will see the great benefits of organizing photos with a peice of software designed for this purpose, instead of Windows folders, which were not designed for this purpose.

My pictures are stored in Windows folders. Some of them contain processed photos and a subfolder called 'negatives' with images originally downloaded from the camera and some only the 'negatives' subfolder. The 'negatives' are e.g. from 2006, some of them were processed a month or two later but some after two years.

Question: Will the Organiser show pictures from the same vacations as taken over three year period?

By default, Organizer places your photos in chronological order by capture date. So photos should wind up in the order that they were taken (by default). If your post-processing maintained the metadata in the photo, then the photos should wind up in chronological order by capture date.

Additionally, should I let the Organiser see the 'negatives' at all?

That's up to you. If you think you've done all the processing that you are ever going to do, you may not want the negatives in your Organizer. However, I would put them in the Organizer, because sometimes I want to do another (or additional) processing of the photo.

P.S. One more thing. The pictures are numbered 001... in every folder. Does it matter?

Depends on what you mean. If your negative and processed photo are both named 001.jpg, both captured at the same time, but in different folders ... PSE may get confused. You'll just have to try it and find out. If photos taken at different times are named 001.jpg in different folders, the software is smart enough to know that they are not the same photo.

[wjw44]

First of all - sorry for my delayed raction. Me and my wife are away on vacations and I did not heck mails and forum replies for a coule of days.

Thanks for the reply!
Well, I never save processed photos under the same name as the negatives. I used to change names to something meaningful, but from what I read in the forum, I should tag the pictures instead and add the letter 'p' to the processed ones...?
Wlady

[dj_paige]

I agree that tagging is more useful than renaming, but I see no particular reason to add the letter p to the processed ones ... perhaps I'm not thinking along the same lines as you are, but the PSE Organizer has structures that let you keep original and processed files together, its called a stack (or version set, if the processing was done in PSE).