Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jumping in late here. When I first import images into Lightroom, I use the "copy and convert to DNG" option, and I then work on the DNG files. Am I correct in assuming that the history of the edits I am doing is saved in the Lightroom database and not in the DNG files themselves? In other words, if I later copy the DNG files to another computer and re-import them into Lightroom there, then the edit information will NOT be contained in those DNG files? I assume that the solution is to export the DNG files AFTER I have made my edits, is that correct? On a related note, the databases do not seem to be 100% between Mac OS and Windows. When I came back from London Monday night, I copied the DNG files and the Lightroom database I had created for the shoot from my Powerbook to my Windows desktop. I then started Lightroom on the Windows machine, telling it to open the London database that I had just copied from the Mac. It opened the database allright, but when I wanted to use the Develop module, it said it could not open the file (even though I had pointed Lightroom to the directory where the files reside). I had to re-import the DNG files, and all my edits were lost (not a bit deal, since I had not done much work on the files, just some crops and rotates). Nathan Wade Heninger wrote: > I've placed a copy of a quick-n-dirty workflow guide I put together for a > few friends. It was never really meant to be publicly available, but I > promised it to Daniel, so I might as well open it up to the LUG. > > I make no promises that it contains anything earth shattering. But it did > help the people I intended it for, so here it is: > > http://heninger.org/uploads/Lightroom-%20Worfklow%20for%20Busy%20Photographe > rs.pdf > > The develop section is necessarily brief because that is the nuts/bolts of > photography and that requires experimentation. > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > w a d e h e n i n g e r > u s e r e x p e r i e n c e > a d o b e s y s t e m s , i n c > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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!