The difference is that I have probably less than 10% of your image count
and many of them I'd never bother searching for. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 1/4/2013 10:16 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
> I couldn't work without LR. I do add keywords when I add the photos and am
> adding keywords for all of the photos I'm scanning. I have 258,245 photos
> in the database so far and would not be able to find anything without LR.
> Now I can search by keywords, date, camera used, lens used, film used,
> rating, names, places, almost anything you can think of. I use it many,
> many times a day, but that's what I do.
>
> Tina
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Bill Pearce <billcpearce@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> That's why I don't use LR. I tried, but I realized that it didn't do
>> anything else that I already was doing with PS/Bridge/ACR, and I thought
>> the
>> database was too opaque. I found it hard to find things, so I'm back to
>> Bridge/ACR/PS and quite happy.
>>
>> Bill Pearce
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chuck Norcutt
>> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 9:13 PM
>> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [OM] Lightroom image management
>>
>> Thanks for the link but there's really nothing there that I didn't know.
>> I know the advantages of a database but I also know the effort
>> required to create a useful one. Adding keywords to tens of thousands
>> of images is just not in the cards for me. My existing folder structure
>> is perfectly adequate for my own use.. a date followed by a moderately
>> long description which already contains all the keywords I need. It's
>> rare that I actually find myself looking for images and even rarer to
>> spend more that a couple of minutes searching for something obscure.
>> Trying to add keywords to images to enable a searchable database would
>> simply be an incredible time waste for me.
>>
>> Evening says: "For that matter how successful are you at navigating your
>> own Pictures folder? We have all struggled at times to locate a specific
>> file that we know is on the computer system somewhere." I'm sorry,
>> Martin, no I haven't. Simple as that.
>>
>> Color me semi-disorganized media Chuck
>>
>>
>> On 12/29/2012 10:59 PM, Moose wrote:
>>> For Chuck and others who may be confused about the way LR handles images,
>>> here's an article about it that attempts to
>>> reduce or eliminate the common confusion.
>>> <http://www.dpreview.com/articles/2252058931/the-lightroom-catalog>
>>>
>>> The basic principles also apply to Aperture and Capture One Media Pro.
>>>
>>> Disorganized Media Moose
>>>
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