On Jul 13, 2010, at 9:54 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > > On Jul 13, 2010, at 5:20 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >> iPhoto has completely automated file management ... it's not designed >> for the USER to ever touch the files themselves at all once you've >> brought them into iPhoto. > > Thanks for describing so succinctly what it is I only sensed, and what I > don't like, about IPhoto. > >> Lightroom file management allows you to track and work with image >> files by reference. They're available to you in the file system where >> you put them, and you can screw things up any way you want by moving >> them in ways that don't allow Lightroom to track them. > > I've been persuaded today about Lightroom. Just need to wait till I can > afford to splurge on it. And thanks for alerting me to a way I could screw > things up. Otherwise I could easily have screwed them up. What others are > saying about the way them manage their files is starting to make sense. > >> In the end, you want to manage your PHOTOGRAPHS, not your files. >> That's what LR, Aperture and iPhoto allow you to do to a great degree, >> abstracting away the need to track and manipulate the files >> themselves. > > Hmm. Photos vs. files. What I do with the original [image] files vs. the > original files themselves? The image is not the photo? The photo is what I do > with the image? > There's really nothing confusing here. If you shoot RAW, you convert to a tiff or jpeg and save the unadulterated RAW. That's the way it will work with either Elements or Lightroom. They won't overwrite the RAW. On the other hand, if you shoot jpegs and do some editing in elements, you would have to save your edited version with a different filename to avoid writing over your original. Lightroom, on the other hand, won't overwrite the original. Paul > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > [email protected] > > > > > > -- > 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.
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