Name product photos so your team can find them later
A naming scheme for valve photographs that survives being emailed, re-saved and looked at six months later by someone else.
Photographs of valves get taken in a hurry, emailed once, and then sit in a folder called "new" with names like IMG_20260910_150110.jpg. Six months later nobody knows which valve that was. A naming scheme costs nothing at the moment of saving and saves the whole conversation later.
The scheme
[model-or-reference]_[angle]_[date]_[version].jpg
Angles worth standardising: `front`, `side`, `top`, `marking`, `inlet`, `outlet`. Date as YYYYMMDD so it sorts. Version only when you re-shoot the same angle.
So: `XF-35H_marking_20260910_v1.jpg`, or where you do not know the model, `cylA-valve_inlet_20260910_v1.jpg` using your own reference.
Four rules
Put the unknown in the name, not in your memory - A reference like `cylA-valve` is honest and still findable. Do not write a model designation you have not confirmed.
One angle per file name - A file called `XF-35H_all.jpg` tells you nothing about what is in it.
Keep the original alongside any edited copy - Crops and brightness adjustments help a reader and lose information. Keep both.
Never rename to a model you were told over the phone - Renaming is how an unconfirmed designation becomes a fact in your own records.
It helps the other side too
The same logic applies to what you send out. A supplier who receives `XF-35H_marking_20260910_v1.jpg` can file it against the right model immediately; one who receives `IMG_4471.jpg` has to ask.