Hi All,

Basically I am not really satisfied of the way I manage my RAW files...

I am however happy with the rest of my workflow, the working pictures, the final exports, etc. But I don't like the workflow around my RAWs.

What I do so far:

- Dump all my raws from the compact flash (I use D700) to a folder called RAW.
- I do create a Subfolder, and if I have time, I'll create more than one and try to group the pictures taken on that card. Like: Central Park Afternoon, Lower Est side night, etc.
- Then I take Adobe Bridge to preview my images, make a selection of what I like and what to keep.
- Then I copy that selection to another folder called Edit where I usually respect the same subfolder structure
- Then from bridge in the new location, I will import those in Lightroom or Dxo (depending how I want to process them)
- And when I need too I'll do a second pass in Photoshop
- When I happy with the result I export my JPG to an export folder (same subdirs)
- Finally I add the JPG to my iphoto album which I then use to upload to Flickr or others...

So all in all, I got a pretty much standard approach. But what I really don't like is how my RAW are stored, it's messy, it does not take into accounts the dates, etc.

WHen I was using windows, I really like how picassa was doing things, taking each folder and "guess" the average date, you could then find them back on some sort of timeline quite easily.

I am looking of some way to do something similar I guess, but I actually hate sorting.... I would love some way to group the picture by the time they were taken ? I don't know something like all the pictures taken whithin 30 min should belong to the same group ? Sort the groups by dates, maybe add some critiria keyword to facilitate the search later ? Like camera model ? Lens used, etc. ?

Any idea, suggestion how to achieve that sort of things ?

Alex
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