Having burbled all that, I forgot the point. Which is, does anyone know of a downloadable thesaurus? I would like to import it into Lightbox, and save myself the trouble of having to think up zillions of synonyms whenever I want to add a new keyword.
-- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Bob W > Sent: 25 February 2007 23:11 > To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' > Subject: RE: Forgive my ignorance, but what use is Lightroom? > > The more I use Lightroom the more I like it. In general I think to > myself "It ought to do X, and it ought to do it this way", so I try X > this way, and it does it. > > I have found a couple of areas where it's missed something though. > > In the Library module on the Find panel you can specify text (such as > a keyword) for it to look for with options such as Containing, > Containing All, Starts With etc. But it doesn't do Exact match. So a > search for pictures with the key word Starts With 'Cat' finds all my > cat photos, but also all my cattle photos, catastrophic photos, > catatonia photos and catalytic converter photos. > > I've been playing around with Keywords today. I quite like the ability > to do synonyms, and I quite like that you can build hierarchies > (parent/child relationships) although each keyword can only have one > parent, which is somewhat restrictive albeit politically correct. I > can't see the point (yet?) of keyword sets. But actually what I would > really like is 'semantic fields' and 'sense relations'. In > linguistics, semantic fields are bla bla, actually I've had too close > a sense relation with vodka & tonic this evening to explain these, and > I'm not likely to get them anyway. > > -- > Bob > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Godfrey DiGiorgi > > Sent: 25 February 2007 22:35 > > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > Subject: Re: Forgive my ignorance, but what use is Lightroom? > > > > You can tell LR to discard the previews and save some space, or tell > > > it to discard them after a suitable unused period of time. > > > > But if you prefer Phase One, well, why not just stick with it? > > > > G > > > > On Feb 25, 2007, at 9:22 AM, Jens Bladt wrote: > > > > > This sounds very nice, Godfrey. Of course. I can go back (Phase > > > One) as > > > well - I 'casue I still have the original RAW file. No snap shot > > > option > > > though. As long as I keep the preview files, I still have the Raw- > > > > edition - > > > and could copy the instruction to other files. Biut I don't > > keep them. > > > They'd fill up my computer really fast. Besides, I like the > > editing > > > tools/ > > > user interface in Phase One better :-) > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
