Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/12/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You can always export your edited files (as a tiff or jpeg) to a folder on a hard drive. They will always be there, edited, but you can't go back through all the editing steps. My best photos end up as full-sized tiffs on Alamy where I can download them any time I want to and sometimes I even earn a little from them! Tina On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 8:10 AM Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > The catalog is a collection of image (raw, jpg or other) plus the sidecar > files (The editing commands) for each plus some form of file structure > that ? collects or links ? them together. It may be different for each > version of LR or not. What is important to remember is that the unaltered > image files are always present. If you want to use a different editing sw > which required its own different catalog. You could make another catalog > for that sw and use either or. > What is most important is that the edits you made are all lost. Gone. You > must start each image and redo ALL the work again. For each different SW > you use > It is my understanding that with LR, the monthly pay version that is > resident on your computer (no cloud stuff) , that if you stop Paying, you > will lose The ability to do further edits. the rest of the program > functionality remains. I have little to no belief that this is fact or > better said, that IF true , that Adobe , in the future, would not change > the facts and make you cough up some money to ever see your images with > edits again. > Adobe is predatory. Expect them to act in a way that optimizes their > revenue. Not your future once you leave their Fold > Last point. V6 has only so much functionality. . The CC versions have > more. If you used some CC functionality in your edits that V6 does not > offer, that edit will not work in the V6. Not today. Not tomorrow. > My thought is that the catalog is unimportant. You want to protect the > editing work you did. There is only one way to ensure that: play the Adobe > game. $9.99 per month. Forever. > But if you stop the monthly pay then change your mind (1 day? 5 years?) > later, start paying again and you are off and running with no loss > One last thought. Go look at ON1 as an editing program. The program claims > to take in LR edits and convert them. Salvation or snake oil????? > Does this answer the question?Frank > Sent from AOL Mobile Mail > Get the new AOL app: mail.mobile.aol.com > On Friday, December 20, 2019, CartersXRd via LUG <lug at leica-users.org > > wrote: > > almost?will CC convert my LR6 catalog to a version that I would later be > unable to use in LR6 if I unsubscribed? > > i?m over-engaged in this thing I guess?I just despise adobe?they are the > neo-fascist trumps et al of the software world > I guess I just never forgave them for killing PageMaker > > ric > > > > > > On Dec 20, 2019, at 9:10 PM, Frank Filippone via LUG < > lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > > > > With each upgrade to the old version of perpetual LR, there was a / some > change to the files/ structure/catalogs. It was forward compatible.... LR6 > would accept LR 4 images / catalogs and do the conversion. All edits were > maintained. The opposite is not true. LR6 edits and file structures are not > useable in LR4. But usually you would not go from V6 to V4. Am I answering > your question?Frank Filippone > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley <http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html>