Of course you can sort and file your images at your leisure outside of Lightroom. Who said you can't? Tell Lightroom to import the items without moving them from where you have them, all it does then is build the indexes and thumbnails, with file system references for the photos. Then you can tell it to reindex your files later when you move them around.
Lightroom is supposed to make the sort and organize job easier, that's all. The concept is very useful to me: Sessions contain unique photos, Collections contain groupings of photos drawn from Sessions. Exactly what I want to do in the file system, without replicating all the photo data. If you don't want the DAM bits, just don't use them (drop what you want to work on into Lightroom, edit it, than delete it after you Export to TIFF or PSD ... or use Photoshop CS2+Bridge+Camera Raw instead. Godfrey On Oct 24, 2006, at 12:26 PM, Dario Bonazza wrote: > That's because I want to be free to sort and move folders/files at my > leisure OUTSIDE Lightroom. > ... > That's exactly a feature I hate of Lightroom. Is there a way to get > rid of > all that Library stuff and just open any file and develop it, > without having > to deal with Library? Thanks, >> I'm thrilled by the idea of integrating a library function into a >> converter >> with a graphic user interface. >> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
