[Leica] OT: Lightroom help

[allen.graves at charter.net (Allen Graves)]

The style of the videos is 2 "old" guys sitting around showing how 
they use lightroom in real-world situations. It really clicked with 
me. Now I realize that there's probably almost as much capability in 
Lightroom that I'll never figure out how use as there is in 
Photoshop. <grin> (That's meant to be a compliment, Wade)

But I am making a start now.

Allen



>On 4/6/07 7:37 AM, "dlr@dlridings.se" <dlr@dlridings.se> wrote:
>
>>  It's a good start, Ed. I don't even want it to be a cataloguing program. 
>> I
>>  don't even want help with the keywords, tags etc because Lightroom puts
>>  that info in a database, not in the file, where it should be. That means
>>  if I ever move my file, the database starts getting full of junk and I
>>  have not use for it anyway.
>
>All you need to do is a) convert to DNG and b) turn on "Always write to XMP"
>in the prefs and 90% of the data will be written to the file (except for a
>few things that does not make sense (i.e a collection's print settings).  It
>takes a bit of extra time to do this (for obvious reasons).
>
>
>>  I think the key to remember is what you pointed out: Lightroom never
>>  thought that your pictures would already be on a hard disk. The 
>> assumption
>>  is that you will be offloading a camera or a memory card.
>
>Not really tru at all.  LR only works from a folder on a hard disk.  When it
>imports from a Card, it saves them to a folder, then imports them.  If the
>images are already on the HD, then it can import them directly from there.
>
>>  Now ... if you are NOT doing that ... things become counter intuitive and
>>  very, very fragile, since moving things outside of Lightroom will
>>  presumably corrupt the database (that is ok with me. It is just in the 
>> way
>>  anyway).
>
>Moving things outside the DB wont' corrupt anything.  It will just ask
>politely where the file went if you try to work with it.
>
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