Hi Erik

It's good to have as much input and idees on this versioniong concept as possible.

Perhaps this would work for you:
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If I had many RAW's I'd probably use JGP with dimensions the same as my largest monitor and use them as main images with the categories. This would speed up the slide show etc. enormously. To keep the RAW's online or ofline is yet another matter.



You can have categories in the Versions category, eg. Versions.Raw or Versions.Web. Only problem is that you can't find all the images from lets say Holiday 2005 in Versions.Web. But this could easily be scripted, eg. a script that bookmarks the images in Versions.Web that have a Master in a selection in the Main category. This is the price you pay to have the main thumb dbase clean from versions and the filter not "wasted" for versioning.

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In my head, I can foresee doing even more with your versioning concept as there are times when I create panoramas or other derived formats that would be nice to utilize a similar format to hide the original pieces, and probably use a different coloring process as well...



Have a look at this post. Might give you some ideas.