On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:41 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 11:22:20AM -0400, Adam Maas wrote: >> >> No, I don't like LR's file management and am explaining why . . . > > I have to agree with Godfrey here. Your "reasons" for disliking it > appear to be partly based on inaccurate statements about Lightroom.
Inaccurate in what way? > > I use Lightroom entirely with my own hierarchical file organisation. > While adding keywords is on my "to do" list, I still haven't got > round to it. Despite that, I find Lightroom to be no worse than > any other program when it comes to browsing my image folders. And, > just occasionally, I find some extra little features (like being > able to limit searches by date range and lens type) to be useful. No worse perhaps. Won't disagree with that statement. But no better either, and it requires more work to get to that point since I hve to import to the Library before I can do so. Bridge does the same job a bit better with no requirement to import first. The search features are not something I use, so no benefit there for me. Lightroom doesn't gain an advantage over anything else until you start taking advantage of Keywording and/or searching and if I don't chose to take advantage of those features, I have to do more work to use the parts I do use, while Bridge just works. Once again, not saying LR can't do it. Just saying its more work to do in LR than in Bridge if I don't want/need keywording or search. > > I'm not bothered by the fact that Lightroom has to import/catalog/ > whatever any image it works on. And even on my rather underpowered > six-year-old notebook (1GB RAM, slowish hard drive) synchronising > image folders doesn't take an unreasonable amount of time. For a > quick-and-dirty image fix I've got other options. But if I want > the benefits of Lightroom I'm prepared to live with that worldview. > Importing is just another step I have to do if I want to use LR. And I don't want the benefits of LR's Library, so I don't use it. LR means more work for me, not less given my workflow. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
