brucewells wrote:
The strength of Lightroom's cataloging capabilities are such that there are many who say to simply put ALL of your images in one folder, for with Lightroom, it doesn't matter.
I'm more anal than that, so I do have a folder structure that makes sense to me, but Lightroom really doesn't care about it.
I can create a collection of photos of my grand-daughter, for example, and those photos are all over the drive, in various folders. But, with the click of the mouse, they are all immediately made visible to me on screen.
It involves a dedication to workflow. One step in my workflow is to assign photos to a collection, or multiple collections. It doesn't take very long at all, yet reaps huge benefits later on.
I've regularly advocated that a workflow is imperative, yet most of us have difficulty devising one. I've modified mine since initiating it. All that said, one must have an understanding of just what Lightroom can do, which means they must learn enough about Lightroom to gain that understanding. I used "Adobe Lightroom Classroom in a Book" to gain that understanding, and to devise my workflow. I wouldn't dare try this stuff without help from Lightroom.
Example . . . you take a photo of your son standing by his new Corvette in front of a famous statue. There may be only one primary subject (your son), but you may want to pull up the photo because of the statue or the Corvette. In a simple folder structure, do you put this photo in the "Children" folder, the "Automobile" folder or the "Statue" folder? God forbid you make three copies of it, and if it's in your "Children" folder, how will you ever locate that statue or Corvette again?
Some time spent in Lightroom during your chosen workflow can prevent this dilemma with ease.
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Thanks. At least I already have the book. LOL :-)