Advice on Lightroom needed
Sep 19, 2018 13:23:02 #
No, no, no. Don't bother organizing them BEFORE you put them in lightroom. LR is the most powerful photo organizing program you can get. Just dump everything in there and use LR for the organizing. That is what LR was designed for.
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tcthome wrote:
Before importing your pics , its better to organize them first,e.g.. , travel, wildlife, family, etc. Then when you add them to Lightroom it will make sense. I to recommend Scott Kelby's book also. Read the beginning on importing before you do anything. Also You tube has some vids on the B&H channel by Tim Grey. Watch them also. Also a lot of good vids on post processing on you tube. Good luck & have fun.
Sep 19, 2018 14:03:05 #
tcthome wrote:
Before importing your pics , its better to organize them first,e.g.. , travel, wildlife, family, etc. Then when you add them to Lightroom it will make sense. I to recommend Scott Kelby's book also. Read the beginning on importing before you do anything. Also You tube has some vids on the B&H channel by Tim Grey. Watch them also. Also a lot of good vids on post processing on you tube. Good luck & have fun.
The problem with the approach you describe is that the categories overlap. What do you do when you take wildlife photos while traveling, or have family photos on a trip? I think what makes more sense is to file photos by year, with subdirectories for each event. For example:
2018
2018-02-18 Class Reunion
2018-02 -22 Art Museum
2018-02-27 Flower Macros
Then, let LR do further organization with keywords, titles, geotagging, etc.
Sep 19, 2018 14:45:27 #
With this reply and others, I think the OP is starting to get the idea that, although LR is not difficult, just how each person handles it is different. This poster and many others on UHH like to organize by date. Although the date (mostly the year) is usually my first key word, my folders are more subject based. I don't care if a flower was shot in Alaska, or Greece or the Lake District in the UK. For me the main thing is that it is a Yellow Flower. I'm going to put it in the Yellow Flowers folder. My way isn't the right way, it's just my way. LR lets you make decisions in many different directions, and if, after using it for awhile, you find your system is not working for you, you can change it. If everything is keyboarding with every possible way to find it, very little will get lost. Lightroom is fun. It's almost like a computer game except the outcome is real.
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DWU2 wrote:
The problem with the approach you describe is that the categories overlap. What do you do when you take wildlife photos while traveling, or have family photos on a trip? I think what makes more sense is to file photos by year, with subdirectories for each event. For example:
2018
2018-02-18 Class Reunion
2018-02 -22 Art Museum
2018-02-27 Flower Macros
Then, let LR do further organization with keywords, titles, geotagging, etc.
2018
2018-02-18 Class Reunion
2018-02 -22 Art Museum
2018-02-27 Flower Macros
Then, let LR do further organization with keywords, titles, geotagging, etc.
Sep 19, 2018 17:27:40 #
waw203 wrote:
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You still unload your photosfrom camera to your hard drive. Create a directory and put them in it..... you then import to lightroom. Lightroom keeps a set of pointers telling it where the photos are on your hard drive...
Sep 19, 2018 23:45:38 #
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