Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Things are sounding better :-) Thanks for the info. So what do people normally do? Do they still suck the RAW files in some sort of folder systems (e.g. by date and or event) or just pull them into a big directory (may be by year) and let LR handle them? At 09:25 PM 8/17/2008, Nathan Wajsman wrote: >Richard, > >You can group images in LR in a number of ways. Tina uses metadata so >she can search. I group the images into Collections. These are not >folders, just a feature of the LR database. So, all my images from >Berlin are in the (surprise) Berlin collection, etc. My pictures from >Alicante are assigned to one big collection called Alicante Life, but >within it there are sub-collections, like Semana Santa 2008 etc. The >assignment is done by simply dragging images to the collection in the >Library module. All this is independent of the physical location of >the files. > >Nathan > >Nathan Wajsman >Alicante, Spain >http://www.frozenlight.eu >http://www.greatpix.eu >http://www.nathanfoto.com > >Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 >PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > > >On Aug 17, 2008, at 11:33 PM, Richard Man wrote: > >>At 02:19 PM 8/17/2008, Tina Manley wrote: >> >>>AMEN! I resisted switching to LR for database management until 2.0 >>>and kept stubbornly separating all of my photos into folders based >>>on country and subject. With 2.0, I don't have to do that. >>>Everything is in one catalog - almost 20,000 photos so far - and it >>>is much easier to find everything and to work on what I need to >>>than it used to be with folder-based files. Lightroom is amazingly >>>fast on both my laptop and desktop. If I give it time to build 1:1 >>>previews before I start working on the photos, there are no hitches >>>in viewing everything at 100% to edit and apply development settings. >> >>Tina, I have to admit that I delete most of this thread, so apology >>if this is already covered - so how does one find an image? Do you >>tell LR to group things in some ways? >> >>I downloaded LR 2.0 trial and have to admit that there is some kind >>of learning curve that is not apparent to me currently. // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)