Hah! That did it; thanks, Mr. G! I have removed one piece of software from my workflow, which has to be a good thing.
Now, as to workflows, what David Parsons said; the chance that any group of humans in general, and the PDML rabble in particular, will converge on one is pretty remote. But you know, if we ever had one of those "meeting" things, if everyone stood up and spent 5 minutes outlining their workflow, I bet it'd be interesting and lots of us would be the better or it. Having said that, I understand how Lr works perfectly well, but have a constraint: a Mac with an ultra-fast but irritatingly small SSD (i.e. "hard disk" that's not a disk, just more chips). I can't possibly keep any substantial proportion of my collection on it, so I carry around an outboard disk for that (and have several levels of backup, but that's another story). But, I really like having the last 2 or 3 months' photos on the SSD because it makes Lightroom faster. So... I always import from the cameras into a directory Pictures/Current and do all my editing and triage there. Every few months I migrate the survivors off to their final homes on the outboard disk. I use YYYY/MM folders just because that what seems to work for me, but I understand that lots of others wouldn't be happy with it. -T On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 10:41 PM, David Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: > Everyone has a different workflow, and there really isn't a right or > wrong way to do it. > > I import files to a temp location by date and do all my tagging there. > I'll then move them to their permanent home at a later time. It > allows me to keep daily sessions organized (since they tend to be of a > single subject or theme). I don't want to put the files into > permanent storage right away because if I don't take care of tagging > when right away, I'll lose them in the storage areas and my tagging > will be useless. > > IMO, using dated folders for permanent storage is kind of a bad idea > if you ever need to find the files in the future. > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: >> Regards your work flow ... >> >> With LR, it's just as sensible to put them where you want them to live >> permanently in the first place, do your sort and grade, then tell it >> to delete the rejected ones, rather than putting them in one place, >> sorting/grading, deleting, then moving the remainder to a final >> destination. (Works more smoothly that way, for my workflow.) >> >> The notion in Lightroom is to create an "original image file >> repository" that never moves, just grows. Since all the image editing >> information is stored in the catalog and the original image files are >> there only for reading that repository can be situated anywhere you >> want. Where to put it is a matter of your backup and performance >> configuration. Once you have a good design for the repository >> (organized by a date directory tree, a category directory tree, >> whatever works for you) there's very little reason to move pieces of >> it around. You identify images by keyword and IPTC metadata, you group >> images by using collections and collection sets, you track editing >> state by using flags/stars/labels. The original image files never have >> to move, these markings are simply annotations in the database. >> >> (This is completely different from a typical Photoshop workflow, which >> moves or copies files from bucket to bucket to track the state of the >> image editing.) >> -- >> 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. >> > > > > -- > David Parsons Photography > http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com > > Aloha Photographer Photoblog > http://alohaphotog.blogspot.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. > -- 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.
