On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:29 -0600, "William Robb" <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/06/2011 6:09 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > > > > I'd like to use Lightroom but I've now invested a lot of time into > > Studioline. The problem with moving to Lightroom now is that I'd lose > > the custom metadata fields that I've added to each image and which are > > stored in the Studioline database. It's not impossible to get those > > custom fields into standard IPTC fields and then import all of my past > > image files into Lightroom, but it wouldn't be trivial. > > If you think you like Lightroom better, then the time to switch is > sooner, rather than later, simply because it will take more time to make > the switch afterwards. > I more or less abandoned my old workflow, which was tree based, to > Lightroom, which is more meta data based. > I still store in a directory tree, but a lot of my searches are meta > data based as well.
That's basically how I work as well. I have folders set up in Studioline that mirror the folder configuration of the original images on my hard drive. When I need to find images, I do a metadata search in Studioline and then open the file in Photoshop (or whatever) from the corresponding folder on the hard drive (by a simple right-click > Open With option in Studioline). > I find one of the strong points about Adobe is batch processing. > If you have Photoshop, you can also batch process easily as well. Well that was one of the things I was trying to get my head around. I have CS3 and if I understand things correctly, if you batch process in Photoshop you end up with a second set of images (tiff or jpg) whereas in Lightroom you just get image adjustments embedded in the DNG or as a sidecar. Of course, it's entirely possible that I don't understand things correctly.... Probably I should download the trial version of Lightroom and investigate further. Thanks for the feedback, Bill. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free -- 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.
