That is good news, Christine! You are running LR 4, yes? Maybe I missed your review earlier, but how do you like it, now that the crying part is over? ;)
Been thinking about the upgrade, but my own machine has been acting up lately (sniff!), so I'm trying to take care of that issue first. Maybe once I get it back from the Genius Bar, we'll see... Do either of the books walk you through the upgrade process? :) -c On Jul 21, 2012, at 3:42 PM, Christine Aguila <christ...@caguila.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone: > > The Martin Evening book arrived, and, of course, I've been reading it. The > book is very good, so highly recommend to others. At 667 pages (not > including index) it's comprehensive and clearly written. Scott Kellby's > books are too wordy; in fact, I wondered when reading his book if he was just > taping workshops, then transcribing his lecture/directions, then publishing > nearly as is. > > > I obviously focused on the Library module and learned a bunch, and hence have > created a workflow by which I can relink the master photo files from my > working external hard drive to the 8000 to the corresponding catalogue, so > with a little time and attention, I should get all the photo files linked up. > I've linked up quite a bit already: find in folder on dead drive, find in > Finder (Mac), go to working drive, find image etc. It turns out the folder > structures on the dead drive and the working drive are fairly similar, with > some exceptions, but Finder on Mac makes it easy to quickly match up, so I'm > good to go. > > Next step is to get a real workflow and hierarchal structure going. The > Evening book does a good job of presenting options, and I have the link > George Sinos posted, so I just need to think about this. > > > The feature I hadn't really used before was exporting a catalogue of selected > photos. Knowing now that I can export the metadata, previews, and a copy of > the master photo files in one catalogue, I think I will incorporate this into > my back up workflow when dealing with those extra special keepers that I > really want to keep safe. Obviously, we want to keep all our keepers safe, > but this feature, I think, will give added on site and off site protection. > > > So, thanks everyone! Crying no longer in Chicago. > > Cheers, Christine > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
