Some Lightroom Help

12 years 3 months ago #197446 by Chander
I've been doing all of my processing with a combination of Bridge, and Photoshop. My volume has increased dramatically this past year and I need to work out a more streamlined workflow for dealing with huge numbers of files. So, I've decided to migrate to Lightroom.

What I'm having difficulty with though is that I already have around 600GB of self-managed images. Moving that much data over and over again is really not a very reasonable idea. I'm wondering if anyone has any tips of migrating my very large current self-managed workflow over to a managed Lightroom workflow.

I appreciate the help! Thanks.


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12 years 3 months ago #197448 by Nicole99
Consider breaking your archive up into separate catalogs so that you don't have to put all of your images into one. In LR, you can only open one catalog at a time.
I know several photographers who go as far as putting each wedding and portrait session into a separate catalog.


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12 years 3 months ago #197450 by Monitor Boy
I don't use Lightroom to manage my final images. However in cases where I have had a very well laid out structure full of thousands of images. I click Import, and in the dialogue one of the options is to "add photos to gallery without moving".

In this case it'll hard link the Lightroom library to a location on the harddisk, and it'll even give you and indicator of how much free space there is on that drive

The Lightroom catalogue is basically the database of images and their edits. I don't use multiple catalogues so I can offer no further advice there.


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12 years 3 months ago #197456 by Chander
I'm unfamiliar with the way the word catolog is used in LR. Can someone explain that too me.


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12 years 3 months ago #197468 by Nicole99
A catalog file is LR's data base...like a master file. When you import images, LR notes the location of the image file and render's a preview. All the edits you make are also saved.
So for back-up purposes, all you should need to do, is backup the catalog file.

I think that many people use a single catalog file in LR. It can certainly handle a lot of images. Your images can still be organized via the file structure you have, within the catalog.

The issues that some people have, are that the catalog file can get pretty big...and for some, there is no reason to have all their photos grouped into a single catalog because they would never need to edit them together.

As I mentioned, some people create a new catalog for each wedding they shoot. That makes it easy to finish a job and not having to backup those parts of a single catalog from then on.


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12 years 3 months ago #197469 by Chander
Oh I see. Thanks, you've been really helpful. :thumbsup:


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12 years 3 months ago - 12 years 3 months ago #198789 by effron

Why so serious?
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12 years 3 months ago #199097 by holdenmonty
I have adobe lightroom and what I do is I copy the photo's from the camera onto my computer into a folder that I have named the name of the place I took the photo's for my own organization and then when I go into light room I go to import and then find that folder and tell it to import those photo's. Then it has a list along the left side that is a mirror of my own folder organization and I edit them that way.

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