Here is one possible digital photography workflow written quickly in response to a query: Download and install Lightroom or your preferred software on your computer. Create a Lightroom catalogue on an external drive (or array of drives) that you will hopefully make regular, tested backup copies of. Here is one possible folder structure that along with the file naming below has the benefit of being automatically sorted by date in your native computer file system so you don’t go nuts should Adobe/Lightroom go out of business: Archive > Place Name > YYYY > MM-DDtoDD Brief Event Keywords Example: Archive > Italy > 2017 > 10-11to13 Rome Street Configure Lightroom import settings to rename your image files in the following way (and convert them to an open source lossless file format like DNG): FirstTwoLettersOfSurnamePlusFirstLetterOfName-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS Example: GRE-20171013-135901.dng Import pictures to the relevant folders you manually create.
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