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Feb 20, 2012 09:55:03   #
MtnMan Loc: ID
 
Thanks for the interesting input.

I use Photoshop Elements 10. The Organizer program does much of what you describe. It also has a "visual similarity" search to cover those cases where you maybe didn't input keywords. Dates are input automatically.

I'll never have 40,000 photos but so far find it great. I just wanted to mention it because the Organizer program in Elements is often overlooked.

I am not sure on the backup as I haven't tried it yet. I know I should.

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CanonShot wrote:
birdpix wrote:
If you are importing your photos to your primary drive on your PC then the "Make Second Copy" files should go on your external hard drive. When Lightroom itself asks if you want to do a backup, which it does at least once a week, it is backing up ONLY the catalogue NOT the actual photo files. This is important! The Catalogue only tells lightroom where you have stored your photo files. When I do my weekly backup I backup BOTH the catalogue AND the photofiles. That way if my PC bites the big one, I can get back to work using another computer as soon as I have LR installed. So to answer your question directly, NO lightroom in not backing up your photos to the external storage drive. You must do that yourself.
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LR has one of the most sophisticated file management systems out there. I am a bird photographer with about 40,000 files in my library. If I want to see every photo I have of American Avocets I can find them in about 2 seconds. This is because I have tagged every photo not only with their species but many other parameters i.e. date location etc. You can import from any source, not just a memory card. So I would encourage you to go ahead and do that.

Go to your Import Dialogue and at the top left hand side you will see "Select a Source". Under that you should see every internal hard drive and any external hard drive or flash dirve that is connected to the computer. Simply open the appropriate drive, select the folder you wish to import and it should show up in grid view, just like it does when you download from a memory card. You do all the same things that you would normally do on the right hand side like name the new file etc. I would encourage you, If you already have them in folders by "date taken" to continue with this in LR. Simply include the Date Taken as part of the file name. I use the format YYYMMDD so they stay in that order.

LR allows you to apply tags as you import photos. This can be a great timesaver if you are importing by date and all the photos for that date will all have a common tag or tags: i.e. "Mary Joes Party". then when you have imported the photos you can go back and tag individual files or sub-groups with their pertinent tags: i.e. "birthday cake", Mom, Becky, etc.

As an aside, when I started taking bird photos, I used Canon's Digital Photo Professional which came with the camera. That has little or no organizing ability. When I went to LR, I imported the DPP files over the course of several weeks, as I had time. I didn't know about tagging on import so I spent a lot of extra time doing something that could have been at least partially automated.
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Feb 20, 2012 16:04:34   #
ltruex Loc: Waco TX
 
Photogrl57 you out did yourself on this write up...really nice job...L3 :thumbup:
photogrl57 wrote:
LOL thanks. I did this in photoshop but it can also be done in Elements.
Open your photo... enhance in any way you normally would.
Then make 2 layer copies of it (ctrl/j).
Leave the bottom layer alone.
The middle layer ... in the layers pallette set the blending mode to screen.
The top layer .. go to the filters menu/blur/gaussian blur/ set to anywhere from 2-25 pixels. I only used 5.0 pixels on this.
Then in the layers pallette set the blending mode for the top layer to multiply.
Then go to the layers menu and flatten image or merge layers ... both do the same thing.
Go to the file menu /save as ... and ALWAYS name it something different from the original name... that way you will still have your original untouched.
LOL thanks. I did this in photoshop but it can als... (show quote)

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Feb 20, 2012 19:48:07   #
photogrl57 Loc: Tennessee
 
ltruex wrote:
Photogrl57 you out did yourself on this write up...really nice job...L3 :thumbup:
photogrl57 wrote:
LOL thanks. I did this in photoshop but it can also be done in Elements.
Open your photo... enhance in any way you normally would.
Then make 2 layer copies of it (ctrl/j).
Leave the bottom layer alone.
The middle layer ... in the layers pallette set the blending mode to screen.
The top layer .. go to the filters menu/blur/gaussian blur/ set to anywhere from 2-25 pixels. I only used 5.0 pixels on this.
Then in the layers pallette set the blending mode for the top layer to multiply.
Then go to the layers menu and flatten image or merge layers ... both do the same thing.
Go to the file menu /save as ... and ALWAYS name it something different from the original name... that way you will still have your original untouched.
LOL thanks. I did this in photoshop but it can als... (show quote)
Photogrl57 you out did yourself on this write up..... (show quote)


Thanks :)

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