On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 06:01:43PM -0500, Stan Halpin wrote:
>
> On Oct 14, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
>
> > However their methodology of file handling seems a bit
> >weird at times.
> >
> Lightroom is built around SQL. Like any database program, the
> organizational structure is designed to facilitate storage and
> retrieval, not necessarily user comprehension. Good news about this
> approach is that it allows very fast processing of search/sort/
> retrieval requests from among tens of thousands records (images). As
OK, this sounds promising.
> others havwe suggested, file it and forget it. Lightroom can find it,
> you don't need to fret about an organizational structure that you can
> make sense of. If you have problems with Lightroom, you can try to
> "learn Lightroom" or you can find a general simple discussion of
> database systems and work from there.
>
> Another good thing about Lightroom is that they have nicely layered
> the image processing functions onto the database functions without
> compromising either too badly.
Let's say that I want to create an ubercatalog, as suggested.
And lets assume that I don't want to lose the work that I've already
done on my 20 or so catalogs of about 570 directories with about
62,000 photos.
Godfrey said that I should merge catalogs. But, when I look in the
indexes of my lightroom books, neither said anything about merging
catalogs.
When I look at the menu there is
new catalog
open catalog
and open recent (which seems to be recent catalog)
There are also a bunch of library functions, which seem to operate on
the catalog, but they may only look at a particular directory tree at
a time.
The list of directories over on the left very quickly gets
unweildy. However, since I name all of my download directories with
yymmdd_subject i.e. 091014_cormorants_1
It'll be very easy for me to set up a structure
raw_photos
2007
2008
2009
0901
0902
0903
0904
...
0910
091001_ebay_makeup
091001_product_sample
091001_product_shoot
091002_dangoughs
091003_pdml
091003_pdml_dinner
091003_rentparty
091005_aikido_test
091007_floor
091007_probuild
091009_fnb_gwebster
091009_gwenplay
091010_headon
091010_rentparty
091013_metaformers
and if I want all of my best shots, I frob the item in the library
menu to include subdirectories, go to raw_photos and have it only show
the ones rated five stars.
If I'm willing to set aside all of my work, I could move everything
into the directory tree that I want, open a new catalog, and tell
lightroom to import all 61824 files.
Can I then just "import from catalog" to recover all the work I've
done on those files without duplicating them?
What if I've moved them from where they were when I made that catalog?
I've seen lightroom recover from files being moved, I've also seen it
get terribly confused.
--
The first step is learning to take great photos,
the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good.
Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc
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