On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Bruce Dayton <bkday...@daytonphoto.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. I have downloaded the Beta 3 of lightroom to > kind of give it a try. Can you point me to some things that would > get me started (videos, tutorials) especially oriented towards the > separate catalogs you mentioned? Thanks for taking the time... Glad to help. There are many Lightroom tutorials and such available on the web, although they're mostly pointed at Lightroom 2. LR3 is a beta and there are many subtle and some not so subtle differences. I put together a "Lightroom Learning Resources" document for my workshops, it's available as a PDF download from: http://www.gdgphoto.com/articles ... click "02 Lightroom Learning Resources" Regards organizing your work as individual catalogs, well, that's pretty simple. Simply create a new catalog for each job, named as appropriate for the job, and import the files for that job into it. Do whatever is required, then export the deliverables (web gallery, printing files, etc) to wherever is appropriate. The primary concept you need to understand is that Lightroom is based on a database ... the .LRCAT file is an SQLlite database file. The term "import" doesn't mean that the image files are read into the database, it means that information about the image files is read into the database. So you tell Lightroom to put your files whereever makes sense for you to backup and archive them, and it reads their information into the database file. It then builds a set of previews which is what you are viewing when you're using the tools to edit, adjust, etc your files. At the end of operations, you "export" the finished images from Lightroom, which is when it creates new files with all your metadata and adjustments applied. The original files stay intact and untouched, all the work is stored in the database and is expressed in the exported, finished products. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
