a) LR preserves your structure
b) LR answers the first question asked, i.e. editing software,
alright :-)
c) to every one the tools they feel the most comfortable with ;-)
Amitiés
Philippe
Le 4 déc. 12 à 03:42, Chuck Norcutt a écrit :
> My reluctance is that sorting and searching in Lightroom using EXIF
> data
> and keywords that I myself enter is a function that I don't need or
> want. When I move images to the computer they go into folders which
> have the following name convention
> YYYY-MM-DD - Long descriptive name
> In the vast majority of cases these are raw files. Within these
> folders
> are other folders typically named
> Converted (converted from raw, exposure and color balance adjusted
> Selected
> Prints
> (and maybe some others)
> Probably this substructure would not be required in Lightroom due to
> its
> non-destructive editing but there are already tens of thousands of
> images in this structure already there.
>
> I can already find whatever I want pretty quickly just by searching
> the
> folder names which contain as many keywords as I need. I can't
> locate a
> specific image within the folder with this method but occasionally
> scanning a couple of screens of thumbnails looking for something is
> much
> easier that adding keywords to many thousands of existing images.
>
> In a nutshell, Lightroom is trying to solve a problem that I don't
> have.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 12/3/2012 3:14 PM, philippe.amard wrote:
>> I don't do that anyway, too lazy I presume, I simply let LR import
>> the
>> files from the card and convert it to DNG - all the files are
>> automatically sorted by date in daily subfolders in "my images".
>> I can find any shot in two seconds if I know where, or with which
>> camera, or even which lens etc. thanks to a very convenient database
>> and queries.
>> On top of this, my files are not corrupted by the changes I make,
>> and the original is preserved thanks to the side-car file containing
>> the data of the alterations.
>>
>> I can't make out why you're still reluctant to it all.
>> When you drive a car, do you really need to now where the clogs are
>> positioned at every point? and what the torque is at that precise
>> moment... I guess you watch the road as most of us do;-)
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