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I downloaded a trial version of Adobe Lightroom.
Is it reasonable to use LR as just a batch converter? There’s a bunch more tempting stuff but I don’t know how to integrate it without completely tying myself to LR and a pure raw format. Even if I do, I don’t quite know how to proceed.
How does it work with tying together metadata to images that move on to photoshop? If I need to do more, which copy owns the keywords & ratings & such? I messed around with making virtual copies & lost all my LR edits (I’ll probably figure that out… just whining). But I’m still not clear on the best workflow. If I don’t tie myself to LR completely and just use it to process sets of adjusted jpegs I lose the ability to go back and make adjustments and all the ratings, keyword & filter goodies. OK, I lose that anyways by not saving PSDs from photoshop but damn, this LR stuff is tempting, it’s just that it messes up my whole system <g>.
How did you approach the needed changes with LR?
One thing that maybe would help me is if the exported jpegs could hold keywords and rankings in the IPTC or something. I saw an option to save settings in the files… then I could do all that and still be able to use it on web pages. It still would be a nightmare migrating web edits back into the system though.
If duplicate export files could act as the home repository for annotation I could make this work. Duplicate systems don’t seem to work well with LR.
What I’d really like is:
1) Raw files on an external drive (normally turned off, and the raw files will start on the local drive for a few months before being archived).
2) Web versions where I can either edit annotation/keywords and ranking or very easy update from the source files.
3) An in-between version of final processed jpegs so I can keep the best of them on the laptop.
For the least changes, my file system would look like:
G:/external drive/raw, seconds, goof around junk…
-this drive usually turned off
C:/favorite final jpegs and annotation
-this is where I’d like to store the data
-this is where I download & work, then archive to G:/
http://localhost/local copy of php-based/mySQL database and web shots -ideally this level goes away though it’ll take work to integrate
http://www.mydomain.com/ public web site
-ideally I’d be able to synchronize public comments from here
—
Paul Furman
www.edgehill.net
www.baynatives.com
all google groups messages filtered due to spam
Is it reasonable to use LR as just a batch converter? There’s a bunch more tempting stuff but I don’t know how to integrate it without completely tying myself to LR and a pure raw format. Even if I do, I don’t quite know how to proceed.
How does it work with tying together metadata to images that move on to photoshop? If I need to do more, which copy owns the keywords & ratings & such? I messed around with making virtual copies & lost all my LR edits (I’ll probably figure that out… just whining). But I’m still not clear on the best workflow. If I don’t tie myself to LR completely and just use it to process sets of adjusted jpegs I lose the ability to go back and make adjustments and all the ratings, keyword & filter goodies. OK, I lose that anyways by not saving PSDs from photoshop but damn, this LR stuff is tempting, it’s just that it messes up my whole system <g>.
How did you approach the needed changes with LR?
One thing that maybe would help me is if the exported jpegs could hold keywords and rankings in the IPTC or something. I saw an option to save settings in the files… then I could do all that and still be able to use it on web pages. It still would be a nightmare migrating web edits back into the system though.
If duplicate export files could act as the home repository for annotation I could make this work. Duplicate systems don’t seem to work well with LR.
What I’d really like is:
1) Raw files on an external drive (normally turned off, and the raw files will start on the local drive for a few months before being archived).
2) Web versions where I can either edit annotation/keywords and ranking or very easy update from the source files.
3) An in-between version of final processed jpegs so I can keep the best of them on the laptop.
For the least changes, my file system would look like:
G:/external drive/raw, seconds, goof around junk…
-this drive usually turned off
C:/favorite final jpegs and annotation
-this is where I’d like to store the data
-this is where I download & work, then archive to G:/
http://localhost/local copy of php-based/mySQL database and web shots -ideally this level goes away though it’ll take work to integrate
http://www.mydomain.com/ public web site
-ideally I’d be able to synchronize public comments from here
—
Paul Furman
www.edgehill.net
www.baynatives.com
all google groups messages filtered due to spam
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