Okay so I need some help!
I’m a photography student, which means I have over 5,000 files on my computer. I have PSD, JPEG and RAW files and also the normal music and word document files. Because of the over saturation of large files,my computer is not working as fast as it should and often crashes on me. I know I can, should, and WILL be moving these files to an external hard drive, but I want to go through my images first so that I don’t end up saving unnecessary crap or multiple copies.
The problem is I don’t know how long this will take me. Hopeful I can be done before the end of the summer break. In the mean time I want to make such that none of my important, completed work/series ends up being altered. I was recently looking though a folder of a completed series for school and found that I had multiple copies of the same image. I like to be organized and have everything clean, nothing out of place. I thought this folder was ready to be moved over since according to me the only files in this folder were the ones that were supposed to be there with no extras.
I occasionally have to go back into some of these folders to make prints or submit work for competitions. This usually requires adjustments in color and/or size or other things.
I know I can make my files read only, but lets say I need to make a 300dpi image into a 72dpi image so that it can be uploaded to a website, will I be able to make changes to the original and save the “new” image with a different file name?
But still, this does not completely solve my issue because I will still be able to save the new image into the folder. I don’t want to be able to modify the folder. I don’t want to add things that don’t belong nor want to accidentally delete something that I need
Is there a way to get all I want?
Am I just being to complicated?
is there a simple solutions to my problem, aside from moving the folder now?
is this possible on Windows 7 using Photoshop cs5?
Can anybody help me?
