[Leica] Lightroom & Bridge

[jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols)]

Wade,

I realize that "real photographers" work with RAW.  Unfortunately, not all 
of us with photography as a hobby can afford the latest digital.  I work 
with JPEG because that is what I get from my digicam and from retail 1-Hour 
film processing of my Leica and SLR images.  For me, at the volume of images 
that I run, it is much handier to keep all images from a shoot in the same 
folder, even those that I edit and save with an alternate name.

For me, PS Elements 5.0 just works better.YMMV.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wade Heninger" <heninger@adobe.com>
To: "LUG Leica" <lug@leica-users.org>; "Brian Reid" 
<reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Lightroom & Bridge


> The way I use LR is to copy all images to a location and then import them.
> The files stay in a folder directory in the locaiton you specify. The DB
> will then import them and maintain a cache of them like Bridge.
>
> They are there and available for Bridge to see/edit with ACR and the
> settings are shared between the two tools.
>
> That said, it is a database manager and not just a file browser and if you
> don't use the import from card feature, you'll have to tell LR about the
> files if you use other apps/the finder to move them around.
>
>> * If you move files inside LR folders the same files will also be moved 
>> on
>> disk.
>
> Never done this.  I import them and then use the collections feature to
> manage them.  Not an issue for me.
>
>> * If you move files out of the folders that are mirrored in LR with other
>> tools LR will find these image originals missing and allows to re-link 
>> them.
>
> True.  It will keep everything it knows about it and then if you ask for 
> the
> image it will ask where you put it.  It isn't a magician, but it will 
> update
> the rest if you update one.  Pretty painless.
>
>> * If you add files to the original folders from the outside LR won't see 
>> them
>> unless you import the files.
>
> True.  It will ignore duplicates if you re-import the entire folder. 
> Pretty
> painless.
>
>
> As to Jim's comments:
>
>> That is the conclusion I came to after trying both LR and Elements 5.0.
>> After working on an image in LR, I could not do a "Save As" and put it 
>> back
>> in the original folder.  I was forced to export it to a special folder. I
>> prefer Elements 5.0 in this respect.
>
> I'm not sure why one would want to create another copy next to the 
> original
> if you work with Raw properly. With lightroom you can create a "virtual
> copy" of the image with different Raw settings.  You can then stack them
> together.  Saves disk space and lets you work as you want.
>
> You can also edit in photoshop and ask that it creates a new file 
> alongside
> the original (with or without LR settings).  You can also stack this
> together.
>
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