Everyone it telling you Lightroom despite your statement that you don't
want to be forced into a filing system. I've had 3 versions of
Lightroom but have never really made use of it because the very first
thing is wants to do is "import" my many tens of thousands of images
from a file structure I have known and loved for many years (works for
me). I bought Tina's recommended book on Lightroom thinking maybe it
would finally make clear something about library structure for Lightroom.
But I was astounded that there is hardly any discussion at all of
library structure except for the warnings I anticipated and was afraid
of... (my rephrasing, not a quote) *DO NOT* delete from, add to or
reorder the physical storage structure of the image database *without
going through Lightroom*. That makes perfect sense if you *only* use
Lightroom but also means that you can't add or delete things with
PhotoShop or anything else outside the Lightroom world without leaving
Lightroom unaware of and needing to be updated to the changes.
Someone has told me (on this list and maybe more than once) that
Lightroom can use my existing structure but I don't really know how to
to that nor do I know how to work around the *do it only through
Lightroom* problem.
Chuck Norcutt
On 12/3/2012 10:18 AM, Paul Braun wrote:
> I'm about to get one of the new iMacs, and I'm thinking about new photo
> software. I had been running an old copy of Photoshop CS2 that I had
> inherited, which will no longer run.
>
> For me, Photoshop is overkill. I was considering Aperture, but not if it
> forces a filing system like iPhoto does. My file structure makes sense to
> me.
>
> Thos of you who use Photoshop Essentials - are you happy? Does it
> accomplish the basic necessities? I'm not going to do super-fancy stuff,
> just the basic cropping/color correction/brightness-contrast/light
> retouching stuff.
>
> I'm open to suggestions. Whatever it is needs to run on OSX Mountain
> Lion. And preferably understands Olympus ORF (I could use the Viewer
> software if necessary.)
>
> Thanks.
>
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