Best way to work with multiple photograph angles?

We are going to be taking 360 degree view photography shots of certain objects and placing these objects on to different backgrounds so the shots will look something like this:
We expect to have about 20 shots of each object and about 5-10 objects per photoshop file. So basically these will be single images all taken at different angles in which we will also be clipping off the background and placing them on transparent layers so that they can be overlayed onto different backgrounds.
I'm wondering what would be the best way to streamline this process. We need to be able to pick the correct shot at the right angle to fit the perspective of the background, once we do we will only be using that one image and all of the angles will not need to be used.'
Does anyone have any suggestions? I've considered creating folders for each object and a different layer under each folder for each angle/shot, however I think that may be a bit tidious to find the right angle. I've also considered creating some kind of an animation so I can scroll through the timeline and the images change in order as if the object was actually spinning in a 3D/360 view like this: http://3dbin.com/public/zummarva but im not sure if that will work or if it would make the photoshop file very big. Ideally I would also like to keep the photoshop files as small as possible.
I'm not sure if it is possible to use photoshops 3D plugin so the images can be rotated as if it were a 3D object?
Thanks

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http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/09/02/installing-the-flex-component-kit-for-fl  ash-cs3/
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+Component+Kit+for+Flash
http://www.webkitchen.be/2008/12/12/video-tutorial-make-flex-components-with-fla  sh-cs4/
If  you want to use components for Flex 4 using Flash CS4+ you will probably want to  use the latest MXP file here:
http://opensource.adobe.com/svn/opensource/flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/flash-integ  ration/

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