2009/4/4 Godfrey DiGiorgi <godd...@mac.com>: > Keywords save massive amounts of time later when putting together groups of > images for sale, exhibits, when locating a particular photo that some editor > saw your web rez page on, when the family would like all the pictures of mom > you might have after she's passed away, etc etc etc. That's about 80% of my > image management workflow need and proves a huge time saving.
Here is my real world example of the benefits of keywording in LR (I used to do it in Bridge too)... A friend of mine a few months ago was having a combined birthday/farewell party (she was leaving to do volunteer work in a Nepalese infectious diseases hospital). I decided to print up a 1.2x1.2m square poster of photos of her. The centrepiece being a particularly unflattering shot I'd taken with the 10-17mm. Thanks to keywording I just had to search for her name. Similarly one of the overseas relatives asked for some recent photos or Mum & Dad. Keywords make these kinds or requests easy It requires discipline to add keywords to files, but it can save a lot of effort down the track. But all this talk of keywording & file management ignores LR's other major feature. Non-destructive editing. The shot I posted of the pretty girl in Dario's "ping" thread the other day. 95% of the editing was done in LR & I could have done it all in LR, but decided a curves adjustment layer mask would be quicker (given how poorly my computer was performing at the time). DS -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
