I am combining iPhoto and Aperture libraries which do not make much sense into a central location library. It will only be around 50k images or so to start, but library will quickly grow. The images are primarily of potential commercial locations in Southern California. I was initially thinking of a three folder hierarchy with Residential, Commercial, and Public (parks, roads and beaches) as the three main folders, with subfolders (i.e. in residential Modern, Craftsman, Colonial) and then projects. One concern is if I import any shoot straight into a project, the same shoot could have a modern residence and a close by coffee shot in the same shoot. I could import them as separate projects, but really want to set up the library in the most efficient manner wise for both workflow and searchability. I realize there is a whole lot of keywording ahead and really want to make the library a valuable reference. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Tee,
Smart Albums are your friend here. You can set up a simple, generic base structure (i.e. just import and group by date), then build Smart Albums that isolate them out how you want them. You can put collections of Smart Albums in Folders to group them together, too. Since you know you’ll be keywording, then I’d just build the Smart Albums to show images with keyword XX and YY, and you’ll be all set.
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Thank you Joseph. Have found Places to also be a great tool so far in creating the library. Thank you for all your work on this site.