Okay so I need some help!

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?

#photoshop #psd #windows7 #protection #files #photograph #fustration #HELP!!!!!!!!!

Admiration

With this series I want the view to remember the time when they were children.  Our childhood was a time  when we wanted to be just like mom and dad.  We wanted to play with Daddy's tools and Mommy's make up. They were our role models.  When I look at my niece and  nephews, I think about how different their way of playing is to the way my siblings and I played as children.  But just like my generation, the new generations also want to be like Mommy and Daddy or even Aunt and Uncle.

For this series, I am photographing my subjects up close and from an angle that makes them appear larger than what they are, or from a child's point of view. This is a first for me, as I like to photograph from a distance and with a wider angle.

Composite

In this image I have brought the mountains of Chapala, MX and the coast of Ocean Springs, USA together.

Tilt Shift

This was my first experience with the tilt shift technique. I don't know how successful it is.  The image is of the Aztec Sun pyramid located in Mexico.  This was the first time going to Mexico after 20 years and I was able to experience this monument.

Digital Hand Coloring

I started out liking the image in color, but I needed to do a hand coloring.  I decided to keep the red leaf its original color (RED) but then spiced up the background by coloring in the rocks in different color, but never red so they wouldn't take away form the leaf.

Boken Blur

I really loved this picture of my cousin.  He was just sitting there with no idea I was photographing him.  The picture was taken really early in the morning after a late night bonfire.  He was either still tired or was using the quite morning to meditate.

Update: This image became his senior portrait.  During his senior year he did not take/have the time to get portraits made.  After my aunt saw this photograph, she wanted to have it to take the place of the one he should have given her.  I was happy to give it to her.  What I was not expecting was the look on her face when she open her Christmas present.  I did not know my work could bring that kind of emotion in a person.
This image is now a 16 x 20 digital print.

Peace and Quite...blurb book project