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Subject: [Leica] OT: Lightroom help
From: nathan at nathanfoto.com (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Wed Apr 11 22:08:15 2007
References: <C23BDBE5.1A574%heninger@adobe.com>

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
>
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