talborough wrote:
I would like to start a discussion on the art of deleting old images.
Well you know talborough, I don't agree with your post about Lightroom - and I may have been a little hard on you. Light room is a little involved. But as I always say, to eat an elephant - just take one bit at a time. I think this applies to Lightroom, Photoshop, or any of the post processing software programs. Take it one step at a time and before you know it your will be very comfortable and productive using it.
Now on to your new topic. Not so sure there is an ART to deleting old images. But it is a reminder to take action and set aside some time to do just that. I started getting serious about photography about 5-6 years ago. I think it was LR version 5 I started with. Had a bunch of old photos and imported them into my very first LR catalog. Then came version 6. I was starting to play around with LR - got some books, video tutorials and started learning the program. I kept adding new photos to my catalog over the years - the key verbiage here is I kept adding new photos. Fast forward to today. I now have the subscription version of LR and even have Photoshop - still learning that one. But the bottom line is - I have taken more photos over the years and progressed in my post processing journey but have not taken the time to just delete old stuff. I now have over 70,000 photos in my LR catalog. So now with this -Stay At Home- order - Yea its time to do some deleting. And your post is a good reminder for me. Thanks.
talborough wrote:
Please consider not using Lightroom unless you plan on becoming, also, a computer engineer. If you just take the pictures you want, transfer them to Windows and edit them with Photos, save and publish the ones you care for and delete the rest, you will be OK for quite a while. Unless you want to to learn the Windows filesystem (which seems to be changing) and Lightroom (as it stands today), the above advice is the best I can give.
If you are a Professional Photographer, please ignore the above.
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Really - I've never heard such bad advice (and I'm being nice here) in my life. I bet you still drive a car with a carburetor. I have no more to say.
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I am so sorry to hear that some low-life made off with your lens and smashed your vehicle window.
It's too late for you, but for the what it's worth department here are three things I have done to protect my gear.
1. I have registered all my gear with a company called Lens Tag. I record all my gear by serial number. They tract world wide all equipment registered with them. If it shows up in their search they notify you.
2. I have all my equipment even my home computers coded with a registered code that is applied to everything of value with COP DOTS. The code is registered just to me. If something shows up in a pawn shop the COPS can check it and see who it is the rightful owner.
3. I have also listed all my camera equipment with my Home Owners policy. It's an extra rider and it only cost me $140 a year for everything. Lost-stolen-fire - I'm covered.
There was a time when we could leave our front door unlocked and not be worried. Today we need security systems, front door bells that record, vehicle alarms. Bottom line is, protect yourself and protect your equipment.
nimbushopper wrote:
If you have homeowner's insurance you can add photo equipment that you have receipts for.
True you can get a rider on your homeowner's insurance. But, it does not cover drop and breakage. At least my Allstate policy only covers - fire, theft, lost but not breakage.
davidp wrote:
Photoshop. All I did was save it the folder it was in as a copy. Didn't save it in any particular way. This should tell you I'm quite ignorant about this whole process
If you are new to all of the post processing gig you may want to start out with Lightroom, rather than Photoshop.
If it's a RAW file you want to do some adjustments, because a RAW file is FLAT.
Photoshop has a very steep learning curve, where as Lightroom is much easier to learn first. It's all a learning process. Don't give up, we all started where you are.
There have been many posts on this site about Lightroom and Photoshop. Especially for new-comers to the post processing world. Which to use for what. The below link to Light Staling's article on this subject gives a very excellent description of each program what it can or can not do. Why choose one over the other or not.
I think even experienced users will find this article helpful.
https://www.lightstalking.com/photoshop-vs-lightroom/
I was trying to upload the new version (2020) of the ON1 RAW software. I do have Lightroom and Photoshop (subscription version) on my PC with Windows 10. The install kept crashing. I emailed ON1 and received this response. Rather quickly I might add.
Hello,
Thank you for contacting ON1 Support.
We have an open bug for this error.
You should be able to click the ignore button 6-16 times and the installer will finish.
We are working on an update patch for this, but I don't have an exact ETA yet as to when this will be available.
Or the other workaround is to uninstall Photoshop, then install ON1, then reinstall Photoshop.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
So I tried to install the program based on their suggestion, and low and behold it worked. I know I clicked on the IGNORE button at least 10 times and finally it continued to install. Strange way to get a program to install, but it worked.
So if anyone else is having a problem installing the new ON1 2020 version this is the fix. I wasn't interested in uninstalling Photoshop so I took the easy way.
Check out the upgrade features. Not that much has really changed. I have 3 - but I'm not willing to spend the extra $$$ just to upgrade to 4.
John7199 wrote:
Right now I do not do any post production. What am I missing? Keeping in mind that I am on a fixed income and not very computer literate do you guys have any recommendations?
Do you think that I am really missing out on something?
John
Try a program by the name of "Smart Photo Editor" its in the $40 range and has all the tools you will ever need to post process your photos. All kinds of presets come with the program. And you don't need a really powerful computer to run the program.
I have the MK II and love it. My friend had the MK II and bought the new MK III. But he does a lot of bird photography and wanted the faster camera. I can't really justify getting the MK III for the difference. I'm not even using all the great functions of the MK II.
I had all Canon equipment and sold it all for the Olympus system. I had the Canon 70D - touch screen and articulating viewer. So when I found the Olympus had the same features I had to go with the Olympus over Fugi.
Recently attended a photography workshop in Cleveland, OH the past weekend. One of the presenters is a Lightroom/Photoshop instructor. She said that the newest version of Lightroom Classic does automatically create the collections and collections sets. How about that. With more research I'm sure there is a preference setting that can turn that off. The good news in that I can delete all the auto-collections and collections sets without losing any photos or doing any harm to my photos or catalog.
I will open a chat with Adobe and see what they have to say. Thank you
I recently updated Lightroom Classic (PC Based). When I launched this new version of Lightroom (8.4.1) it seemed to have created a number of Collections, Collection Sets, and Collections within Collection Sets. It appears to have created collections for every photo I have in the catalog.
It also created Smart Collections with different criteria.
It also created a Quick Collections in the Catalog section.
Is this something that has happened with the new update. In previous versions I have never created any collections, smart collections or even quick collections.