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If I want to make a blurb book about dogs, simple to find every dog I ever shot.
If Marianne wants to make a book, I set her up at my imac and run media pro and let her knock herself out with searches.
I probably tend to keep more shots than I should - but then, later many that seemed worthless can be used in collage pages or in an out-take section of a book.
A lot of things, like events or a particular house I shot might be as easy to find by searching on the folder name, but then I do have that, too, but it is also nice to be able to sort on Bedrooms or Patios.
Do I search often - maybe a few times a month for a single shot, but then when we make a blurb book, we will use it for hours at a time.
I guess my answer is - why not do both.
Getting started is the hard part, especially if you have 30 years worth - maybe too much work to justify. But if you have a small data base now, it would be silly not to take a few extra minutes to keyword as you archive...
Haven't you ever spent half an hour trying to find a certain photo? With a data base, it should never be more than a few minutes to run a few different searches and find just about anything.
Then again, maybe I'm too anal
Tom
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Tom O'Connell
-Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem.
Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh