File+Management

Photojournalism File Management

1. Create a folder for the assignment in your Pictures Folder. Name the folder using the name pattern “Project number-project name” For example: “Project 1-Manual Exposure." 2. Create 5 subfolders in the assignment folder for: As shot images, (.nef or .jpg), Photoshop images (.psd), Print files (.jpg), Web images (.jpg), and submission [which you will turn in to the instructor’s Drop Box (.jpg)]. The submission folder should be named using the pattern “Period number_last name_project name” for example “01_smith_manual_exposure” The folder should look like this:



3. Shoot the photos for the project. 4. Upload the photos to the “as shot” folder. 5. Open Adobe Bridge and navigate to the new uploaded photo folder. Rename the new photo files using the naming pattern “period number_last name_project name_three digit sequence number”. For example “01_smith_manual-exp_001”. 6. Now carefully review the photos you’ve made and select the ones that you are going to submit. Do any Photoshop work that is necessary and appropriate for the assignment and using the Save As command save the processed images as .psd files in the Photoshop Images folder. Next prepare Print files of the images for submission, making them 10” on the long side, no more than 8” on the short side and 300 ppi (dpi), and once again using Save As, save them in the Print files folder and the submission folder (01_smith_manual-exp). Finally, if you are going to post the images to a web page, make a web image, resizing each image to 720 pixels by 480 pixels for horizontal images, or 360 pixels by 540 pixels for vertical images, and using Save For Web and Devices, save them to the web images file.