On 3/31/2020 2:54 PM, Mike Gordon via olympus wrote:
Appreciate the comments so far. I think Tina's two catalogue system makes
sense but seems overkill pour moi---might have 600GB total if decide to include
the scans pre PS from two systems ago.
I'm a single catalog guy. almost 150,000 images in mine, 5.5 TB. Works fine.
Primarily looking for nuts and bolts suggestions on importing the images the
first time.
First time load of all images, either way:
1. Click the Import button, select all the folders with images, tell it "Make it
So". Go to bed.
2. Do the same thing, but one chunk at a time. Doesn't matter, the result will
be the same.
I usually just upload from the card with PIE and sorted by
camera/year/month/day.
That's what I do, as well. I've tried to find a way to put them in folders that way in LR, and failed. I'm not upset,
though. I much prefer geocoding in GeoSetter to LR, which may be just familiarity, so I import into LR from the real
directories after geocoding.
A problem with the "camera/year/month/day" model occurs when shooting with more than one model of camera at the same
time, or on the same trip. This is where LR's Collections work their magic. ZS200, GX9s, iPhone all are seamlessly
together in the "Ireland - 2019" Collection.
Or, I can look at it together with "Ireland - 2018" and look at them by day, place, lens, file type, whatever. The
capabilities of selection are really powerful. That, to me is a major reason to have only the one catalog of "everything".
The power of selection by metadata is wonderful. It even sometimes makes up for
my lack of keywording. :-)
LR as I understand it leaves them
That's a choice, and certainly mine. LR makes a thumbnail and a pointer to the file location, while leaving the file
untouched. The other option is for LR to be the Borg, and assimilate the files in to it's own system.
be but if you move an image outside of LR it loses them.
Yup. You move the file, and the pointer leads nowhere. It's easy to fix, "remove" the file in LR, then import it
wherever it has gone. But, it's a pain to do much of that.
If you are going for a full LR catalog set-up, get used to initiating editing of Raw files in LR. When you open a Raw
file into PS using FastStone, it goes first into ACR, then into PS. Working from LR, go to Develop Mode, which is mostly
a different face on ACR, do whatever you would do in ACR, and CTRL-E to switch into PS.
The advantage to this is that anything you save within PS, entered this way, is
automagically in the LR catalog.
Cataloged Moose
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