Digital BW, The Print

Hey Paul,
That's a really good request..  A few of us have been trying to beat Adobe up for the past couple of years to get this concept added.. From what they tell me it's really a complex issue as it goes well past just Lightroom and Photoshop.. If they really stepped up it would encompass the full suite of programs.. not just Photoshop and Lightroom.  They are actually looking at doing it but stepping back it's just asset management but needs to deal with all assets not just our images.. So all file types that get handled by the suite need to be involved..

Anyway for what I think your after their is a work around sort of ..I do a few things using Lightroom that seem to work reasonably well.. It's just being a little creative that's all.. So here's kind of what I do.. It's not perfect but it's very workable.. Ok I shoot a lot of digital images.. So that all works as expected in Lightroom. I just make my file system / catalogue system work by structuring it properly.. Ok now here's the rest.. I have a couple of drum scanners and that we do scans on.. all of this stuff has a structured file system to sort it out.. I also have Photoshop files.. literally thousands of them that I have structured in a files system which includes a raft of clients my own work you name it.. ... All of this stuff I import into lightroom into a separate catalogue.. I hope I'm saying this so you get it..  Like I said not perfect but it works..It's a visual and searchable system in Lightroom that lets me both see and open any image I have.. They are stored all over the place in various places.. So my cataloging system is kinda pushing Lightroom but it does work ok now... In earlier versions Lightroom would choke.. but as of Version 3 the data base capabilities are way improved.. But you still have to back up back up back up... I have Cumulus and it's pretty slick but doing Lightroom the way I do it is far easier and way less effort then what I had to do with Cumulus.. So in summary what I think you'd like to do you can do and you'd be surprised how well it works.. but you'll need to do it with Lightroom.. The key to creativity with Lightroom is to realize that it's capabilities go well beyond importing images from your digital camera.. The images can come from anywhere and be of any type..
Try an experiment or too...I got a nickel says you'll be surprised.. Anyway asset management in Lightroom work reasonably well for images across several pieces of software and disciplines.. I'm getting fairly comfortable with it now... Play with it and let me know what you think ok?

jimbo
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 2:15 PM
  Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Adobe Releases Lightroom 4 Public Beta For Free Download


    
  Actually, what I'd prefer is incorporation of the Lightroom search capabilities into Photoshop. I don't need two large, overlapping and not very well integrated programs. 

  Paul
  www.PaulRoark.com 

  --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Shoshanna Moser <equinox@...> wrote:
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  > Attention Lightroom users! Adobe has just announced the release of the 
  > Lightroom 4 public beta, a free download available for both Windows and 
  > Mac.
  > 
  > The final, commercial version will be hitting the shelves in two or 
  > three months, but this late-beta will allow Lightroom fans-- and those 
  > who've been considering adding this extremely useful software to their 
  > photo editing toolbox-- an opportunity to preview and explore the 
  > advances, improvements, and innovations of the latest edition.
  > 
  > Further information, and a link to the downloads, can be found on the 
  > Adobe site at 
  > http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/201201/01102012AdobeLightroomBeta.html
  > 
  > Best wishes,
  > 
  > Shoshanna
  > Gold Beach - South Coast of Oregon
  > http://www.pbase.com/shoshanna
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