Charles answered Henk's original question on point. Summarizing, Lightroom does not create a JPEG, TIFF or PSD rendering of a RAW file with your edits until you tell it to explicitly with the Export function or implicitly with the "edit in photoshop... or "edit in <another editor>" commands. (When you use these two commands, it creates a rendering in TIFF or PSD format alongside the original RAW file on disk, and this rendering is automatically entered into the catalog as well). In normal operation when you're using Lightroom to manipulate cropping, tonality, etc, it records your editing instructions in its catalog (and optionally in metadata either as an XMP sidecar file or into a DNG file directly) and renders the file as you have edited it on the fly for viewing and display. You can immediately get to any file that you see in the Library module using the "Show In Finder [Windows Explorer]" commands ... but in essence, you really shouldn't have to do that very often at all.
It will create a JPEG/DNG/TIFF/PSD rendered file on demand via the Export function and place it anywhere you want to store it. My workflow places files that I import into a directory tree rooted as "work-in-progress", files that I export are organized into a directory tree rooted as "completed-images". Subdirectories tagged with project number, date and event, etc, are in both of these trees. The flow of work goes from card to "work in progress" to "completed images" after I'm done with them, if I need to export them. My working catalog contains only "work in progress" directory tree, I maintain a second catalog which imports only the "completed images" directory tree. I've found this to be an efficient organizational model for how to coordinate and store files and keep what I'm working on separate from what I've completed in the file system. From: Lucas Rijnders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > And, while more or less on the subject, is there a way to edit 'maker > notes', especially lens name in the exif? If a shot is by an 'A series > lens' with SR set to 50, I know which one it is. I'd like to store > that > info in the exif... ... > There appear to be some tools around to edit EXIF, but they didn't > work on > the 'maker notes'. From: Matthew Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What I've seen in tools like PhotoME is that the "lens type" maker > note is just a number, and the software then has to look up that > number in its own list of lenses. It's *not* stored in the EXIF as a > text string like "PENTAX FA 50mm f/1.4". Sometimes when I've gotten a > new (modern) lens, I've had to let software authors know that a > certain number corresponds to a certain lens. > > My guess is that there's no way to modify the EXIF to indicate an old > "A" lens, because those lenses were never assigned an ID number. Yes. If you want to look at EXIF metadata, the tool you want to analyze and manipulate EXIF information is EXIFtool by Phil Harvey: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ This is a command line tool with extensive ability to read and edit EXIF data in a huge range of file types, including RAW file types. Be aware that manipulating the lens codes and other private maker data can be a little tricky and often doesn't give you want you want. I normally use the tool to read the data for analysis, not to edit it. As Matthew said, you can't put in lens data for lenses that never had it such that Lightroom will recognize it. Lightroom recognizes all Pentax lenses properly now, far as I can tell, given the data that is available. Learning and reference resources for Lightroom continue to grow, any list posted is quickly outdated with new ones. I strongly recommend people work with the video tutorials available at Adobe and Luminous- Landscape.com, and a few others. Adobe's tutorial videos are at http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/ Very well done stuff. There're also the news and blogs sites, which each have a bazillion other links to spin off from: http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/ http://lightroom-news.com/ The books by Martin Evening, Scott Kelby and others have all been good, do a search on Amazon.com for current titles. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
