Great information, I'll start playing around tonight and see how it goes. Thanks for the link.
-- Best regards, Bruce Monday, April 5, 2010, 8:15:47 PM, you wrote: GD> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Bruce Dayton GD> <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... GD> Glad to help. GD> There are many Lightroom tutorials and such available on the web, GD> although they're mostly pointed at Lightroom 2. LR3 is a beta and GD> there are many subtle and some not so subtle differences. I put GD> together a "Lightroom Learning Resources" document for my workshops, GD> it's available as a PDF download from: GD> http://www.gdgphoto.com/articles ... click "02 Lightroom Learning Resources" GD> Regards organizing your work as individual catalogs, well, that's GD> pretty simple. Simply create a new catalog for each job, named as GD> appropriate for the job, and import the files for that job into it. Do GD> whatever is required, then export the deliverables (web gallery, GD> printing files, etc) to wherever is appropriate. GD> The primary concept you need to understand is that Lightroom is based GD> on a database ... the .LRCAT file is an SQLlite database file. The GD> term "import" doesn't mean that the image files are read into the GD> database, it means that information about the image files is read into GD> the database. So you tell Lightroom to put your files whereever makes GD> sense for you to backup and archive them, and it reads their GD> information into the database file. It then builds a set of previews GD> which is what you are viewing when you're using the tools to edit, GD> adjust, etc your files. At the end of operations, you "export" the GD> finished images from Lightroom, which is when it creates new files GD> with all your metadata and adjustments applied. The original files GD> stay intact and untouched, all the work is stored in the database and GD> is expressed in the exported, finished products. GD> -- GD> Godfrey GD> 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.
