On Jul 13, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Bob W wrote: > You can use Lightroom to organise the files by collection within its > catalogue; photographs are not limited to being in one collection. You can > also use keywords and various metadata to search and to set up 'smart' > collections, which are essentially named searches. > > Because LR can do all of this, I don't do any organisation of the files > outside of LR. I import all the photographs into the same folder on disk, > and use the camera-assigned name for the file. I see no point in organising > them outside LR in parallel with LR. Other people take a different view and > have their own organisation on disk, and various strategies are recommended > by the authors of LR books.
Thanks, Bob. I'll have your suggestion in mind over the next few weeks. The list's calling attention to Bridge has gotten me started today. I think I'll go back and forth between it and Elements till I come up with a copy of Lightroom. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
