ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces people to overarching ideas about organization and storage from which people can develop our own system for organizing our digital files. Taking the former into consideration, people realize that storage is a dynamic process and people can move and copy files between various media with the implicit understanding that none of them are permanent. Now, exponentially more data gets stored in cases hundreds of times smaller, and in coming years more and more storage will likely depend on cloud. Infrequently using a disc to store our originals and keeping it unplugged and safe is a form of dark storage—dark meaning that the machine is turned off. The chapter emphasizes the need to create consistent and organized workflow for taking our images from our camera to our computer. It covers the various steps people should consider when developing our own workflow and discuss the most basic concepts, which are copy, rename, image treatment, optimization, and backing up.
