How can a graphic creator quickly organize a large number of photos using only folder directories?

How many photos do travel bloggers and professional photographers take every day?

Although I am not a professional photographer ... in my own words, the average is about 100+ sheets/day, and there are 400+ sheets in extreme cases such as festivals, and the accumulated materials are huge every time. After that, it is organized into text pictures, which is also a selection of hundreds of materials for each article. The arrangement and storage of pictures has also become a hard skill.

At present, the method of quick classification from hodgepodge pictures has been accumulated for several years. Too lazy to make labels, too lazy to change names, and don't use tall tools. Use only the folder directory layer that came with your computer.

The following are some experiences of graphic creators in arranging photos. If you don't write travel notes or even send a circle of friends when traveling, you may also learn how travel writers can save and quickly recall complicated travel memories.

Followed by mobile phone retouching, video, camera, mobile phone original picture. Personal habit is to mark satisfactory photos with the "Collection" button on the mobile phone. Most of them will be repaired and sent to Weibo on the same day, and the photos taken by the camera will also be imported into the mobile phone.

How to distribute a large number of original packages;

1. Some mobile phone albums will be automatically classified as albums;

2. The default file names of cameras, mobile phones and repair drawings are different, such as "IMG_xxx", "DCIM_xxx", "DSCxxx" or random garbled, which should be sorted by name before batch classification;

3. Pictures and videos have different file suffixes, which are sorted by type first, and then classified in batches.

Remove the repaired pictures and videos and release the memory, and the rest is the original picture.

I usually classify the original package of travel according to the itinerary, and add the year in front to facilitate sorting and retrieval. Life pictures can be months, or the names of activities such as "Seeing the xx Exhibition", "Birthday Party" and "Celebrating the New Year in xx".

If there are photos shared by colleagues, they will be listed separately, both on the trip and in daily life.

For example, on the route of Aleutian Islands, I bought a photo bag of the photographer on board, and asked some sailors about the high-definition wildlife photographed by them. Some of these pictures will enter the "retouching" folder, and then be signed and appear in the article.

Copy the retouching folder and its contents once, and you can get a summary for backup and an original material package that can be built vigorously.

Some roughly repaired mobile phones will be seriously damaged on the computer screen, or need secondary repair, such as drawing light and shade curves with PS, or adjusting local colors. Drawings repaired with tools above 1 are also classified here.

"retouching" has a built-in "jigsaw puzzle" folder. While putting together the jigsaw puzzle (I use Photoshop), I throw the patched picture in. First, I want to avoid repetition (after all, I will spend too much time watching it); The second is to divert the flow again to improve the efficiency of map finding. Sometimes it is common to find that other materials are more suitable after being stored together, and it is also common to drag them out and do them again.

At this time, it may be necessary to find a good source file from the "original picture" for temporary repair. As a supplement to "retouching", most of them are used as jigsaw puzzle materials, and a few of them are focused single large pictures.

Why do I use many puzzles in the article?

Some pictures that show details will feel bloated and redundant when they are all released. Especially in Zhihu or WeChat official accounts, where mobile phones have vertical screens. Putting similar group diagrams in the same scene represents a "weaker" representation than a single diagram. Readers who want to see details will be more open.

2. Sometimes the combination of a jigsaw puzzle and a single picture can well express the tone style and the transition of the scene, and an event is represented by a group of primary and secondary pictures. Even with the most basic graphic editor, you can show the beauty of typesetting.

3. The size and style of the picture itself. It's uncomfortable to look at a long vertical picture on a mobile phone-for example, my picture here is also put together with two screenshots. When using different equipment to take pictures or quoting other photographers' pictures, the style jump of a single picture will be obvious, and the puzzle can naturally merge.

And this kind of gameplay, is it a bit dynamic to change the depth of field?

Third finishing: use temporary folders to improve efficiency and screen out clean material packages.

Conceive words, upload pictures and adjust the order. Add an "abandoned picture" and a "used" transition folder, and drag a batch of uploaded pictures into it to avoid being dazzled and missing or uploading repeatedly.

If the effect is not good, throw it into the "abandoned map", but do not rule out turning it back from the abandoned map, so that it will not fly directly to the recycling bin.

Move all the pictures out and delete this empty "used" after all the pictures are transmitted.

If there are many pictures, we will further subdivide the pictures to be used together according to the subtitle module of the article. For example, "making coffee" and "living on a farm" in Colombia, or different types of places where people work remotely in Seattle and Portland.

Finally, leave a bag with the final practical map in it.

Why do graphic creators leave clean packaging?

1. It is convenient for multi-platform image transmission and publishing. For example, if you post a travel note on the official account of WeChat, it is illustrated with pictures and texts, and then you want to post it again in the hornet's nest, a pile of hundreds of disorderly and unclassified pictures will be uploaded and rearranged, and it will collapse. Then I wanted to choose some beautiful pictures to send a little red book, and I collapsed again.

2. It is convenient to search quickly when needed. Writing some concluding themes will reuse previous pictures. Such as prose | 29 sunrise and sunset.

3. Sometimes it is necessary to send the drawing package to the contractor. Let Party A look for what he wants in a mess of original materials you sent, and then Party A will go crazy and silently blacken you. At this time, I will rename the picture slightly with the serial number.

4. More extreme situation: After the stolen text is stolen, it is convenient to obtain evidence from copyright lawyers synchronously. There have been practical lessons in finding pictures and finding old eyes.

I often add some strategies and background information to enrich my writing after writing articles. For example, alpine skiing will add a snowfield map, a screenshot of wiki data, a schedule of future generations, and a small evaluation of the homemade snowfield radar map. It is for "external data" that does not come from the lens.

This travel book of Hawaii is divided into three modules according to land, sea and air, and the pictures are also archived:

Because an old hard disk lost all the data of 12- 15 (I want to cry), I will back it up twice now. Put a bigger western digital in the drawer at home, and the other Sandisk that you carry with you is synchronized with the computer regularly, so one has a problem and the other has a problem.

It is not easy behind every boutique output.