Bob W wrote: > My view, which I implemented from v0.n beta of LR because it is a sound general principle, is that you should not confuse the physical organisation (i.e. on the disk) and > the logical organisation, in the catalogue. Therefore I have a completely flat unstructured set of photographs on disk, in one folder (but see below), and I use LR to > catalogue it. That's the point of a catalogue - to make multiple independent groups independently of the physical organisation, so that they are easy to find and to view > in different ways. Folder structures on disk are a 2nd-rate attempt to do something similar - you don't really need two ways to do it. Occam's law applies.
> However, my installation of LR itself does create subfolders on the disk whose name is based on the file date, but I suspect I set it up this way while I was drunk, or > perhaps it was the default setting, when I first got LR. It's unnecessary, but quieta non movere trumps Occam. And: > You should import the photos directly from the SD card into Lightroom > and let LR put them into the folder you've designated. In the Import > dialog specify the keywords that apply to most of the photos (who, > what, where - when is already in the metadata), and use a standard > metadata thing for your static details. > > When it has finished importing use the Latest Import collection, or > whatever it's called, to identify the photos, then fine tune the > keywords on a per-photo basis as needed. If you have time you could > also quickly rank them and / or create a collection for the ones you > want to come back to later. > > If you're reasonably clever with your keywords you can always find what > you want. Bob, I don't disagree with any of that. I did in my earlier post to Eric state that someone who uses it correctly should post and follow their advice. In an ideal world I would have my own laptop set up for myself and I could use the software a better way. Sadly, as someone who shares the use of this computer with several family members, I have to do things in a way that if I am interrupted I know where I last was. I also expect people are considerably more computer literate than I am, and as one who doesn't overly enjoy computer programmes and dislikes computer games, I have two 400+ page books at close hand to use either Lightroom or Elements. I am far more at home with a fountain pen and paper. I accept that to you how I am doing this is second rate, but I'm OK with that because I can make this work for me. I'm still getting to grips with creating a website a bit at a time, because whilst I'll be delighted with the finished result, it's beyond me how people actually enjoy creating this sort of thing. Malcolm -- 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.
