Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You are correct, Jeff, as I remember the experience. It was some time ago that I did this. I don't doubt that I could have eventually found a way to make it work for me, but I found that, for the limited number of images that I process, Elements just seemed easier and more straight forward. I occasionally get frustrated with Elements, and its limited ability to address "curves", but it works for me in most instances. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Moore" <jbm at jbm.org> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 1:27 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] AARRGGHHH!! > 2010-11-24-14:03:53 Jim Nichols: >> I tried the trial version of Lightroom, and, I agree, it does a fine >> job of editing. However, I could never overcome my frustration with >> its image organizing features, which choose "their desired path" >> regardless of what "I" chose to do. I eventually went back to >> Elements, and have no regrets. I save my images in a manner that I >> choose to use. > > Are you just talking about the naming and on-disk placement of image > files? Because you can use Lightroom and not have to let it do > anything of that sort. I copy new images onto the disk according to > my preferred folder structure and file naming conventions, then just > tell Lightroom to import them into the catalog in place (which I think > is the "Add" operation, as opposed to the Copy, Copy as DNG, or Move > flavors). The original files then aren't copied or moved by Lightroom. > > LR3 acquired some finer-grained controls for file renaming (and > convert/not-convert to DNG on ingest, and make a backup copy somewhere > else if desired as part of the process), but I'm still doing my > renaming pre-Lightroom because neither Lightroom nor Bridge seems to > support batch file renaming with sequence numbers per camera/date, > where the sequence number automatically starts back at 1 when the date > flips. > > Or have I misunderstood what wasn't working for you about Lightroom > organization? The other organization bits would be collections and > keyword tagging, which seem to pretty much do what one would expect. > > -Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >