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Post by stevenm on Jun 27, 2015 18:45:47 GMT
I'm a PScc user and have never setup lightroom. My main reason was that I'm a less than weekend photographer. Also my camera came with a transfer program that creates a numbered directory each time I move my pictures to the pc and the pictures are numbered the same, "dsc_00x," and so on.
Now comes the question. Since the files in each directory have the same number sequence and I don't want to take the time to rename them all. Is there an easy way to tell Lightroom to automatically grab them from each directory and copy them into one larger lightroom folder where I could then sort and catalog them?
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Post by Joe (JEGavlas) on Jun 27, 2015 19:30:59 GMT
No need to move files nor rename them. Lightroom will catalog the directories and pictures with no problem. The directory and file name are the unique identifiers. If you search within LR it will show all files with that name, not a big deal.
Don't try to put them all into one folder. Leave them where they're at. LR will keep track of where they're at.
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Post by Andy on Jun 28, 2015 0:38:47 GMT
I'll echo Joe's comments - just leave them where they are and LR does the rest.
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Post by mrkrnbrd on Jun 28, 2015 14:18:27 GMT
When you start using Lightroom you need to forget all about folders and actual file locations and never move or delete a file outside of lightroom. In fact Lightroom works best when you allow it to import from camera and then you use lightroom for everything (organising, keywording, editing, printing and exporting/sharing) from then on (Except PScc! of course but even then you send to PScc from within LR ) It is a different mindset to folders and files. As Joe and sargenta rightly say just import 'old stuff' from where it sits now
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Post by stevenm on Jun 28, 2015 17:33:34 GMT
My apologies, I used to catch on faster than this. So you're saying I should just start lightroom, point to the first of 133 sub-dirs. and tell it to import. Than keep doing that for all into the same library. Than use lightroom to sort for the ones I don't want thus leaving the original file alone? If so it will take quite a while!
p.s. Sorry, wasn't notified of a reply.
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Post by stevenm on Jun 28, 2015 17:51:37 GMT
Okay, I'm shocked! I went and pointed to my Nikon directory and sat amazed at it loaded every picture I ever moved from the camera into Lightroom. Now I just need to clear out the junk photos than consider putting them into groups or catalogs. Guess I have some more learning to do. Cool! "no more boredom," Thanks everyone.
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Post by preeb on Jun 29, 2015 0:01:28 GMT
Okay, I'm shocked! I went and pointed to my Nikon directory and sat amazed at it loaded every picture I ever moved from the camera into Lightroom. Now I just need to clear out the junk photos than consider putting them into groups or catalogs. Guess I have some more learning to do. Cool! "no more boredom," Thanks everyone. One correction, don't make multiple catalogs, use Keywords and Collections to sort your photos. Unless you have a specific need to have multiple catalogs, all you do is confuse things by breaking your images down that way. You can have one catalog with 100,000 images and still find what you need, when you need it if you have everything keyworded and broken down into collections. One photo can have a half dozen keywords and be contained in several collections, yet only reside in a single catalog. It takes a bit of time when you first start out to get yourself organized, but once you do it, you have a very strong tool ready for managing your photos. |
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Post by muymalestado on Jul 5, 2015 13:18:40 GMT
Preeb has it, along with the others. Take the time to create keywords and some collections. Attach as many keywords to one photo (or a set of photos) as you find useful. This time is repaid multiple times.
Discussions abound about whether to create hierarchical keyword structures, or not. I don't because, as you will find, even with xx,000's of photos LR finds keyworded sets very, very quickly.
Also note the photo files need to be backed-up external to LR and that may be most easily done if your existing folders system lies under one single top-level folder. Just back-up that top-level folder and that's it if you ensure all sub-folders are included.
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Post by softlyvic on Jul 6, 2015 22:45:39 GMT
Just to add to preeb and muymalestado's advice; take a look at Victoria Bampton's FREE "Getting started with Lightroom" ebook. www.lightroomqueen.com/quickstart/Note that she does suggest giving serious thought to the structure of your folders (eg, chronological). Personally I have found keywords less helpful than collections. From looking at discussion on the pros and cons, it seems that keywords are important to professionals running a business with the need to access files using client names, type of shoot, type of image (for an image library), place of shoot, etc. May be less important for anyone else who has a lot less images and has a good folder structure and uses collections. Other advantages; LR may get you started on using RAW. The penny dropped for me at the time I was considering getting LR a couple of years ago, when it was referred to as "souped up" Camera RAW. Much easier and flexible than PS for the dark room process. |
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Post by estherf on Jul 29, 2015 17:25:56 GMT
When I first started using LR, I had to forget everything I had learned about organizing/saving. It is indeed a different mindset. One just has to have in place a backup plan for folders, since the catalog backup doesn't backup the images in the folders.
I didn't think I was professional enough to use LR, since I didn't take lots and lots of photos, but I quickly changed my mind after I found the strengths in LR.
You don't have to save your edited image as you are working on it. Every edit is remembered... not disappearing when you close the image.
If you do edits outside of LR, you just sync those into LR. Right click on any folder and sync all the changes.
I find the ACR editor in LR to be outstanding because it is integrated into the edits. I haven't found a limit to the number of images to edit at one time. You can also specify presets to be used as you import the images. I have some favorites such as lens corrections that are automated with presets.
Well I could go on and on, but these are my favorites.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2015 17:46:34 GMT
Like Es, I thought only professionals used LR, but I was so wrong. I have LR5 and have been using it for the past year or so but only since trying to read and learn my way through "The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Book for Digital Photographers" have discovered that LR can do so much more than I at first thought.
I really love the organizer in LR and as Es said, no edits are ever forgotten, unless you make it so.
I really was dubious if I should move to LR, but am glad I did now!
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Post by elines on Aug 2, 2015 8:42:24 GMT
This is an interesting discussion for me as I have been impressed with demos of LR I have seen at my local photographic club. Are their periodic discounts for the LR/CC combo as there are with PSE? I'm expecting the answer to be 'No' but just thought I would ask.  |
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Post by Sepiana on Aug 2, 2015 16:11:56 GMT
Chris,
The Photoshop CC/Lightroom CC combo seems to be offered at the same price -- $9.99/month. It is part of the Adobe subscription services. This means you don't get a perpetual licence to use these programs; you get a subscription to them. (It is more like "renting".) You will be able to use them as long as you pay your monthly "rent".
www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography.html
However, you can still purchase Lightroom as a single product, perpetual licence. If you check around you may find discount prices on it. In this case, look for Lightroom 6 (current version). |
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Post by elines on Aug 2, 2015 17:23:13 GMT
Thanks Sepiana - as always you are a fund of knowledge |
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Post by davehagg on Aug 2, 2015 18:54:33 GMT
I've been a PSE user since PSE5 and have updated every other year thru PSE13 and have taken online classes each time I updated. I am still very satisfied with PSE but had to give the new LR & PS subscription a try. I also have most of the Topaz filters that work with all my editing programs. I like the Creative Cloud videos to learn but I really wanted a text book to work by for a desk reference. I found Scott Kelby's book "The Adobe LightRoom CC Book" and bought a copy. I found it very easy for a beginner to follow from importing, organizing, and different developing modules. I still save my photos to my windows file system by year and month then import the whole file into LR and then make a catorgy for the photos I choose to keep.
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