Digital BW, The Print

But LR will do most if not all of the mass processing for you 
automatically as you put the images on to your computer. You set up a 
preset to do things like giving your images unique names, performing 
autoexposure, applying a tone curve etc, creating a backup and so on and 
apply it as the images are read from your card reader, and can have 
different presets for different kinds of work.

It is a huge time-saver, and with LR4  many images really need no 
further processing, though I often do a little work with the adjustment 
brush and tweak the exposure etc a little. Ctrl-A is pretty useful in LR 
too by the way, as is the pretty flexible synchronisation of most image 
properties. So you can select a whole batch of images in LR and - for 
example - give them all the same keywords or the same colour temperature.

And of course you set up export presets to produce files for different 
purposes - I've different ones for each agency I send files to so that I 
automatically meet their requirements, another that produces web images 
with my watermark on them, etc. Each automatically gets images the right 
type, size, profile, quality, sharpening etc and gets output to the 
specified location

You only need to create a catalogue once when you first use LR, although 
you can have more catalogues if you like. I have almost 300,000 images 
in my main catalogue and it still works pretty well.


Peter Marshall    -    Photographer, Writer: NUJ
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On 06/04/2012 20:44, Seth Rossman wrote:
> Yes, bridge is and always has been a kludge.
>
> That said, I have always found LR to be cumbersome too.  The Create
> Catalogs thing instead of just opening a folder, Ctrl-A and go to work
> to mass process is a PITA.
>
> Seth
>
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