Library naming and sorting strategy

Hi all
I am new to Aperture and before I start importing all my pics I am trying to determine my filing strategy. Basically my pictures consists of Holiday Snaps and hobby Portfolio type pics.
I am thinking of creating two libraries. One Snaps and One Portfolio. Then categorising by dates then events within each.
I would be interested in hearing how you guys are organising your pictures so that I can finalise my method.
Thanks Carlo

Reading this
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11232422#11232422
will help you think through determining your filing strategy. Many things work. Try to define your needs. Make practice Libraries (a few Projects with photos) and use them to test your structure.
I'd put them all in one Library. (What about those great family shots that should be in your portfolio? The ones that you cropped and tweaked -- in which Library? -- and want to re-tweak for something you just thought of?) I would not categorize by date (Ap3 has that built-in). I would settle on a file-naming convention and stick to it rigorously (and I would start every file name with "YYYY-MM-DD_"). The benefits of a referenced Library are more than worth the small set-up cost (in time).
I now keep three root folders in my Library:
• New Imports
• Store & Cure
• Serve
I create a new Project for every shoot.
. Projects stay in the Folder "New Projects" until I have stacked, keyworded, added "Places" information, written a short description in the Project description field (including some text tags I use to track the development of the shots in the Project), and made my initial "selects". Since I am moving tens of thousands of images into Aperture, I find it useful to sequester the Projects which have been imported but not had any "intake" administration done to them or their images.
. Projects are then moved into the "Store & Cure" Folder, under which I have a full hierarchy of Folders which meet my needs. You may have two second-level Folders, "Family" and "Art Shots". This will allow you to quickly search on one, the other, or both. I do adjustments on my "selects" within the "Store & Cure" Folder.
. My third top-level folder does not contain any Projects. It is for output. Here I create albums (Smart or otherwise) for each of the Clients/jobs/sets/projects (small "p") that I have -- essentially, every group of images that is going to be output as a group. I have a Smart Album called "Portfolio" here (based on keyword). I plan on setting up two second-level folders: "Active" and "Archive".
I am, admittedly, overly hierarchical, and wont to expand functionality obsessively. Ap3 gives the user +tremendously useful tools+ for file and image management. I hope my details give you some ideas as to how to best exploit those tools for your needs.

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gridView.ID = "_gridView";
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gridView.AllowPaging = true;
gridView.PageSize = 5;
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I am interested in importing raw & jpg and then comparing them.
I want to apply different effects on the raw files to see if I can match or better the jpg files as rendered by the camera
(I use Nikon).
Background:
In the past I have used L:R to view my Nikon NEF files side by side with JPG files from the camera and discovered the amazing versatility of the NEF files at fixing problems in image files and I have therefore always preferred working with RAW files.
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Now I don't own the latest Nikon Software but I wanted to see if I could compare "good" JPGs out of the camera with the image Raw data in LR.
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What surprized me was that the JPGs out of the camera immediately looked better than the "Unproessed" NEF files.
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But could I get the Raw file to resemble the JPGS?
I attempted to set the NEF files to my preferred camera profiles, ( was using portrait setting in camera)
Even upon eidting my first RAW file I noticed that if I wanted to match the JPGs, I would have to use other adjustments such as contrast, recovery etc.
I intended to do quick mass-adjustments to the RAW files to see if I could match or beat the JPGs for overall image quality
I wanted to use Synch to copy those setting to each NEF file.so I set out to sort out the NEF files and JPG files into different groupings and soon discovered I don't know how to do this:
IS THERE A QUICK WAY TO SORT / GROUP FILE TYPES IN LR?
Can I select just the RAW file or just the JPG files?
I know I can sort files by metadata, but can't figure out how to sort by extension.
I realize I can do a workaround by removing the entire folder from the catoalgue and sorting them using windows explorer(XP) and then reimporting them separately.
But I think there should be an easy way to sort them right in LR. But I fear there is not. Am I right?
Once I sort them I would be able to mass-apply settings (like contrast adjustments) to one set or another and do some side - by - side comparisons between the RAW files and the JPGs and get the most out of my photos.

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