ORGANIZING AND ARCHIVING YOUR FILES

It's good practice to stick with a single way of organizing your digital photographs. For this course, we'll be archiving our files by assignment, using the following structure.

For each project, you'll have a folder. Inside that folder there will be four more folders. Use the following names for each folder.

PROJECT FOLDER (sub-folders below)

• RAW- Unprocessed RAW or JPG files. Like the negatives in a sleeve
• PSDs- Working files, unflattened, at original resolution (not re-sampled).
• PRINTS- Final images, flattened and sized for print. All the file in this folder will have a duplicate file that is unflattened in the PSDs folder.
• JPG- small, re-sampled images for web/email.