Congratulations.
See if you can pick up an inexpensive used copy of Scott Kelby's LR book. His
humor gets a little tiresome at times, but it's a good basic primer.
People who only work in lightroom like to let its database keep track of
everything. I disagree with that approach because sometimes I need to find
files from outside of lightroom, and sometimes I want to generate jpegs in a
logical tree format. I store files into each directory in the hierarchy:
Year
month
shoot
subdirs based on the shoot.
When I read the raw files into lightroom I actually load them under the year,
and when I'm done processing them, I move the shoot directory inot the month.
This way I can easily see which shoots I still need to process photos from. I
also actually split the years up into Jan-June and July through August.
So, for example, the files I'm uploading right now will go into:
/Volumes /activedrive/photo/2012b/120925_felton
when I'm done processing them I'll have
/Volumes /activedrive/photo/2012b/1209/120925_felton/farmers_market
/Volumes /activedrive/photo/2012b/1209/120925_felton/ford_pickup
If you bracket shots, it's good to tag them as such, in case you ever go back
to HDR process them.
I also find that I like to do a multi-pass rating system on my photos.
I have on several occasions wished that I'd done a better job of tagging my
photos, but I at least try to get a high level tag by subject:
musicians, flowers, aikido, landscape etc. So by having a rough idea of date
and subject I greatly narrow down my search. Even if I don't have each
musician in the band tagged in all of their photos, I can usually find the
proper directory within a few minutes.
On Sep 25, 2012, at 3:38 PM, Walt wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Finally, after years of using Picasa, IrfanView and a few Photoshop plugins,
> I finally decided to break down and get some decent image editing software
> for my new setup. It's definitely going to take a while to get comfortable
> with it. I've checked out a few of the tutorial videos at the Adobe website,
> which were reasonably helpful, and wonder if anyone can suggest some others
> that would be worth taking a look at.
>
> Any suggestions, tips, and/or advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- Walt
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