Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Daniel, Wade and others have already answered your questions. I will just add that most things about Lightroom seem more difficult when you read about them than when you actually do it. I am certainly no expert on Lightroom, but have become totally converted in the couple of months I have been using it. The whole concept of non-destructive editing is wonderful. As Wade explained, importing the files from a folder does not change them in any way--it simply tells Lightroom that they exist and instruct it to create the thumbnails, read the metadata into the database etc. What I usually do is to import the RAW files, do whatever I need to do to them, and then export them as TIFFs for archiving and printing, and as JPGs for posting on the web. I guess if I wanted to keep the whole edit history I could export them as DNG files, but I don't care too much about that. And besides, because Lightroom is so much faster than Photoshop, and I still have my RAW files, redoing my modest manipulations would be a piece of cake. Nathan Daniel Ridings wrote: > I am trying unsuccessfully to understand the whacky logic behind > Lightroom. > > I have to import pictures. Why? I don't know. I can browse to them, so > browsing is not a problem, but I can't do anything until I import them. > > I can import whole directories at once. > > I can import a directory, do a lot a work, print, remember that I > forgot a picture, browse to it, import it, and loose everything I had > imported before. My library is now one picture, the last one I imported. > > When I did have my whole library, I couldn't for the life of me figure > how to export html-pages of just a few. It wanted to export everything. > > I really want to like the stuff, but for the life of me, I can't find > a reason why I should. > > So ... what is the library? Why is it better than my folders? > > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands Opportunistic Image Acquisition General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com and http://www.greatpix.eu Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog SUPPORT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUY DANISH PRODUCTS!