> On Nov 11, 2015, at 7:48 AM, Malcolm Smith <rrve...@virginmedia.com> wrote: > > It's so important to get Lightroom to set the catalogue database right from > the start. I thought I understood that, and I also thought that at least the > images I had from DSLRs were in a logical order. > > Well, it turns out that knowing where to find the images on the hard disc (or > spare drive) to view is one thing, but having a logical catalogue which makes > sense as you add to it, work on them - and make them available for web or > printing is something quite different. Only after I got a sizeable amount of > the catalogue sorted did I realise that not all the images were present, but > the whole way I stored them on the computer no longer made sense. > > This became a circular problem, as I would have liked to have worked these > issues out before making a Lightroom catalogue, yet until I was well into > making it, I would not have known the issues! > > It's taken me a while to enable Lightroom to find where the 'missing' folders > or files went, but I have learnt a lot about the software in the process, and > I now have the files laid out in a manner which makes sense to me and can > grow with as I add scans of slides and negatives, as well as my latest > digital pictures. > > For someone organised, starting with Lightroom should be a big help, but if > you don't know what it is you want until you start, you have to live with and > correct the errors that you make!
Thanks, Malcolm. As I said in my previous post, I’ve never done anything with my catalog. The notion of an “organized” catalog intrigues me. Again, I have only one. Every image I’ve ever taken has been just dumped into it. There’s no structure whatsoever. Curious about how you're going about organizing yours. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net “Man has been a murderer forever.” - Peter Matthiessen. -- 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.
