I’m currently trialling LR CC (? vs classic).
I’ve always gone with folders as year then month / event.
Point is, if you’re in CC, you have no folders – any thoughts on that? Gives me worries that you don’t have that fundamental structure to fall back on. As you said, not organising by folders necessarily but still have something to fall back on.

Rob Sylvan had once posted an article on how to create custom Keyword Sets. Maybe you could create a set per project so that as images are added, the “add-er” could click on the keywords attributed to that set.

Great to see you yesterday at B&H Opics Show.

I use Lightroom for my personal photography but face challenges at work figuring out the best way to process and organize photos for multiple users.

In a scenario where you have one staff photographer and additional designers who need to assist with keyboarding and the post-processing of images, how can that be accomplished when a Lightroom library can’t reside on a server?

In terms of designers finding images for projects, it seems as if a DAM system (like Extensis Portfolio) might be a necessity. I’m surprised Adobe hasn’t added this functionality to their Creative Cloud package, along with a project management app as well.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions or advice on how to use Lightroom (or another application) to both organize and share photography assets with a work group. Perhaps Scott could provide insight on how his team at Kelby One handles these types of challenges. Would love to see an article or series that deals with these topics.

On the Adobe website there used to be (but no longer are) a number of “Adobe Digital Photography White Papers and Primers”. One of them explained in full detail why it’s not a good idea to ever step away from the default system of having a folder structure on your hard disk *and* inside the Lightroom (Classic) Library based on YEAR-MONTH-DAY.

The only reason why you want to change that, is when you don’t want to take the time to keyword your photos and organise them by Collections. Both those actions are absolutely essential to find back any photo immediately, without having to “filter” them out.

Moreover, you don’t have to rename the folders, inside and outside of LrC, to find photos, even if you don’t want to take the time to keyword! In the Import Module, inside the File Handling panel, there’s the option to “Add to Collection” (with the possibility to immediately create a New Collection right there and then!). That is the best way to “organise” your photos “your own way”.

All this is why it’s not at all a good idea to ever step away from a YEAR-MONTH-DAY structure for your folders and their names, not outside of LrC and thus also not in the Folders panel of the Library Module. Use Collections to organise and just make it part of your workflow to keyword! It will pay off in the end, both inside and outside of Lightroom!