Digital BW, The Print

Hi Andrew,

I notice when discussing these catalog issues, it's a matter of understanding relational databases.  We are photographers, and classify the old paper negative method. Mentally, we want all the same negative in the same spot (aka folder). We are mentally wired for flat files.

It is hard to comprehend that photographs can be anywhere, and that LR serves as an inventory management tool. Hence assigning topic, subjects, accounts, etc. is important during the ingest process.  Thus if we assign names correctly, we can find and display easily all pictures across all folders AND drives for any topic/subject, AND yes date, not by the folder, but by the metadata.

The key of course is to maintain a safe copy of the LR master database file on a secondary drive or RAID.

We tend to want to place the related pictures in folders, just like in the real paper work process, but in computers, the files (read pictures) can be anywhere, LR finds them by filters.  Difficult physical data management concept.

-= CB =-



----- Original Message -----
> Hi Geraldine:
> 
> I agree that grid vs. Loupe view can be confusing (and if you press T,
> you can lose the Toolbar, which confuses a lot of people). I've spent
> thousands of hours in Lightroom and I've taught a lot of people to use
> it, and I still get frustrated from time to time!
> 
> Here are a few quick tips to try:
> 
> 1. Remember "GE," G will take you to Grid, and E to Loupe, then use
> the minus and plus keys to make the thumbnails larger or smaller
> (easier than the slider in my opinion).
> 2. Use a date-based system for cataloging your work. I have a pretty
> long article on this here to give you an idea of what I mean by that:
> 
> http://prophotoresource.com/home/item/528-tracking-gigabytes-how-to-organize-your-image-collection.html?tmpl=component&print=1
> 
> Hope that helps!
> 
> Andrew
> 
> Andrew Darlow
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> 
> On Jan 11, 2012, at 9:44 AM, Geraldine Powell wrote:
> 
> > I really agree with Paul. I have been using Lightroom for four years
> > and I am still befuddled by it. I much prefer the camera raw
> > interface
> > in Photoshop to the Lightroom one. I know they do the same things,
> > but
> > I can see what I am doing much better in camera raw.
> > I still have situations where I cannot for the life of me change
> > from a
> > grid view to a whole page view. Normally, there is no problem, but
> > now
> > and then I just have to put up with what Lightroom has decided to
> > do.
> > I also hate the Lightroom cataloging system. I try to make one that
> > works for me but it is not great. I am actually thinking of dumping
> > Lightroom. I see the main problem as an unfriendly user interface
> > and
> > real lack of integration with Photoshop.
> > If they expanded Adobe Bridge capability it could be great.
> > Lightroom may be great for the technically very savvy superuser but
> > it
> > is not good for someone like me. I am not going to spend any more
> > money
> > on it.
> > Geraldine
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
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