Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/01/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]wonderful, clear, simple, logical, well explained. I do this too. It works well. steve > On Jan 5, 2017, at 10:45 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > I am coming late to this thread, but FWIW, here is my workflow. Before > getting into it, let me say that I like simplicity and hate using more > than one piece of software. This is why I like LR so much. It is the only > piece of photo editing software I need. No Photoshop, no specialized RAW > converters, no special panorama tools etc.?everything I need is in LR. I > use the standalone version, not the subscription. Also, I only ever shoot > RAW. > > So, with that, here is what happens to an image from the moment I press > the shutter till you see it in one of my posts. I will use one of my > recent Milano images as an example. > > 1) Take picture. Always RAW. > > 2) Copy the RAW file to the appropriate folder on an external hard drive > used only for storage of RAW files. The folder structure on this drive is: > CAMERA-YEAR. So in this case, the top folder is Leica (since I had the M8 > with me in Milano) and the subfolder is 2016. But of course you can > organize your RAW files any way you like, as long as you know where you > put them so that you can tell LR where they are in the next step. > > 3) Import the RAW file into LR. The LR image folder is on a separate > external hard drive and is simply organized by year. So in this example, > LR imports the image to a subfolder of LR Pictures called, simply, 2016. > > 4) Make my adjustments to the image using the tools available in LR. > > 5) Move the image to the appropriate gallery within LR. This concept of > galleries is incredibly useful, and has nothing to do with the folder > structure on the hard drive. Think of it as a way of organizing the images > around themes or events or however you wish to define the categories. In > my case, I have a gallery called ?Alicante life? where most of my images > end up since I live here and so most of my images are made here. But in > the example I am using, I put the image in a gallery I created for this > purpose called ?Milano 2016?, which is in turn a sub-gallery of a gallery > set called ?Italy?. I have such gallery sets for countries that I visit > frequently, i.e. Denmark, the US, the UK, Italy, Germany, France. > > The other very useful thing about galleries is that you can assign an > image to more than one gallery?you are not making additional copies by > doing that, there is always just one physical file, but you are simply > letting LR know that a particular image belongs to several categories. For > example, I have a gallery called ?Cycling? where I keep the images I take > while out cycling (doh!). So, if I take any picture during my ride this > morning, they will belong to both the ?Alicante life? and ?Cycling? > galleries. When I cycled in Mallorca in February 2016 or in Denmark in > April 2016, the resulting images similarly ended up in the ?Cycling? > gallery and in the respective geographically defined galleries. > > 6) Export the image for web publication. In the case of my Milano image, > the folder to which I export the image is a subfolder of the ?Galleries > for Frozenlight? folder called ?MIlano 2016?. I similarly have folders and > subfolders for my weekly blog images, my Greatpix galleries etc. All of > this irrelevant as far as LR is concerned. As Ken said, it is like > printing, a one-way activity. Once exported, LR has nothing to do with > that JPG file. > > 7) Upload the JPG file to the appropriate web gallery and post the link to > the LUG and Oly lists. > > Of course, there are backups of the RAW files and the LR files, but that > is not our subject here. > > Hope that helps/inspires. > > Nathan > > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator > <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> On 06 Jan 2017, at 06:35, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: >> >> Thanks, Richard. That is the direction I'm heading. I just need to get >> comfortable with it. >> >> Jim Nichols >> Tullahoma, TN USA >> >> On 1/5/2017 11:29 PM, Richard Man wrote: >>> Jim, for posting from LR, I either export/FTP directory to my server, or >>> if >>> you are using something like ht eLUIG gallery, first export the image >>> with >>> the correct settings (e.g. maybe 900 pixels across, sRGB color space >>> etc.) >>> to a folder on the disk. For example, I use g:\PhotoExports. I set up >>> "template" so it's just a couple clicks to do it each time. Once you have >>> the exported file on disk, then just upload to your favorite site per >>> usual. >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> OK, all of you gals and guys are using Lightroom, and it can convert >>>> Fuji >>>> X-T2 RAF files, so I need to adapt. I downloaded the 7-day free trial, >>>> and >>>> on my second day, I managed to convert an X-E1 RAF file and post a jpeg >>>> image. >>>> >>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/January+Selfie.jpg.html >>>> >>>> But, I did a lot of chasing my tail in trying to place images in the >>>> Library, and post from there. That didn't seem to work, so I took a >>>> devious route to place a "real" image in my normal folder, and posted >>>> from >>>> there. >>>> >>>> Has any one got a link to a Lightroom tutorial for Dummies? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Jim Nichols >>>> Tullahoma, TN USA >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information