on 2012-07-12 7:25 John Sessoms wrote
And many Lightroom evangelists seem to think its keywording/tagging capabilities are an adequate substitute for actually having some kind of system for organizing your files.
an image catalog means you don't need the mental load of coming up with the perfect set of "shoeboxes" in the file system (an impossible task, since natural organizational systems often are rarely strictly hierarchical); when using a catalog/database, i organize my _files_ once, when they come off the camera, and never have to organize them again; any further organization is of the _images_ in the catalog which is far more flexible
in a catalog, one image can belong in several different, changing categories yet there is no need to move or copy any files; i can also make several different renderings from one file without having to create multiple files
and if i do want to reorganize files (e.g. if i were importing a lot of material from someone else's messy archive) an image cataloging tool facilitates that, too
i guess your argument might be that a catalog encourages laziness, but as a programmer, i think laziness can work to one's benefit; with a little up-front effort, a cataloging tool can allow one to evolve an organizational system gradually with much less effort and no file-shuffling
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