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| Location: | South Lakeland, UK |
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I have all my images in Lr3 I don't allow Lr to ingest them, there is an option during the import which gives you the option to leave the files where they are in their folders or to ingest them into the Lr database as Aperture and iPhoto do which I hate. It's close to impossible to find and access the actual files once they have been gobbled up into the database.
You can create more than one catalogue, my botanical images are separated from my general photography and have their own catalogue.
What Lr does (for me) is to create a catalogue of images at standard resolution, this allows me to wiz through my images as fast as the disk drive can access them. That is very handy if I am searching visually but the key-wording and metadata searches are top notch, I can find most things PDQ.
As Rich mentioned this morning I am starting to use Lr for basic adjustments, only turning to Photoshop for the more demanding edits where layers and cloning are needed and combining images.
What I find a nuisance is having to 'export' the processed images through an overly complex set of controls rather than a simple 'Save As' from Photoshop, that is the biggest obstacle to my using Lr for my day to day adjustments, it's more work to export them than it is to make the adjustments.
I have only about 35,000 (114Gb) images in my general catalogue.
The current catalogue file is 145Mb and the previews are 7.4Gb.
A screenshot of my Lightroom Catalogue directory...
Attachment: Lr Catalogue.jpg (Downloaded 6 times)
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Robert.