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Subject: [Leica] OT: Quick LR2 tip? How to import?
From: red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone)
Date: Sun Dec 14 16:22:29 2008
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Why?  LR doesn't care.  I organize by "shoot" location.... ( I am an
amateur, so I refer to "shoot" as one series of photographs or time.. like
....Hawaii 2008......  Point Lobos 2005... etc. and put each shoot into its
own LR folder.  However every computer folder has only 1 roll of film in it
on the computer......Hawaii 2008 Roll 1.... Hawaii 2008 Roll 2..... etc. )
It is easier to find something of you lose track of it....  Organize any way
you prefer..... but be consistent.

BTW, a valid reason to use 1 big folder is if ALL your shots are digital and
have EXIF data to them and as you import them to LR, you designate some
pretty specific Keywords per image...... then finding a "lost" image is
pretty easy......

Why bother with Raw + Jpg?  Why not RAW only?  What does BOTH give you that
RAW alone would not?  I personally could find no reason to do this.... 

Keep things simple.....but well organized.

And no matter what some may say, go buy a book on LR2...... your questions
will all be answered.... and you can PLAN how to do the work you are now
doing .......

Frank Filippone
red735i@earthlink.net



OK, so may be I should reorg my folders first so that it's by years. That
will just make a few folders (one per year). I will have lots of scanned
pictures too, but I guess that's no problem. Sounds like I should also start
using Vuescan to scan to raw.

So lets say I re-org to just one folder per year, then should I have just
one catalog for all the years or one catalog per year?

Also should I just let it catalog the RAW and the JPGs?




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