On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > Suppose I've a LR catalog A. Now, it is very big and I want to take > part of it out and make a separate catalog (suppose it is all my > family album pictures for sake of example). So I make catalog B that > contains a subset of pictures from catalog A. I then go and remove > from A all the pictures that are in B.
When you say "I make a catalog B that contains a subset of pictures from catalog A", I will presume that you have selected all the relevant contents of A and done an "export as catalog" operation. > Now, is there a way in which I can say to LightRoom something like - > here is the (soft link) location from which you should consult catalog > B and have all this knowledge displayed somehow when I open catalog A? > Effectively I want to divide my pictures to sub-catalogs but I want to > have a single point of entry to this whole structure. No, this is not possible in the current version of Lightroom nor in Lightroom v3-PB2. Each catalog is a universe unto itself. I have multiple catalogs, for reasons which I've tried to articulate here and elsewhere. Each catalog contains a subset of my total image file repository. It's proven effective for my workflow. The primary partitioning schema is "work in progress" vs "completed work" ... all editing happens in work in progress, finished work is maintained in "completed work" where the only editing allowed is organization into collections for specific uses. For the ability to search and browse across everything in the image file repository, I maintain a "master catalog" into which I've imported all the other catalogs. I occasionally re-import my working and completed work catalogs to refresh it with the latest efforts and keep everything synchronized. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
