> On Jul 2, 2023, at 1:03 PM, Eric Weir <eew...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> On Jun 10, 2023, at 10:36 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godfreydigio...@me.com> >> wrote: >> >> 'm most impressed with RAW Power used in conjunction with Photos … I could >> actually make that my only image management system for macOS, iOS, and >> iPadOS, and dispense with the Adobe, Affinity, and Snapseed software >> entirely. There's no real issue with doing that, just a bit of work to >> re-organize my photographic storage and learn fully the use of Photos and >> RAW Power, but the cost of the Adobe and other software is low enough that >> I've been too lazy to be bothered doing that thus far. :) … It is, however, >> a good alternative app suite for my needs, should I decide to go that way. > > I’m gonna go with the Lightroom Classic option, at least for the time being. > But curious, could you manage your older images Photos with Raw power? Would > you lose your processing?
That depends upon your organization and workflow, and what you mean. For my organization and workflow with Lightroom (now Lightroom Classic), the answer is yes: I could manage all my older photographs with Photos and RAW Power easily and not lose any of my finished image processing/rendering work. Note the specification of "finished" in that statement… This is because, from the very beginning when I started using Lightroom, I realized that a parametric editing system was an interpretive, live process … the *instructions* on what to do to an original image file is what the LR Catalog contains, the original image file is unchanged, so when LR displays an image, it is reading the original image and interpreting it in a display preview according to the rendering parameters that you've set. If you open the original file with any other application or viewer, those instructions are not there and only the original file will be displayed. So my workflow rule is that when I reach a point where I consider a rendered photograph finished, I export it to a *new* file in a *separate* directory tree structure. This "bakes" editing parameters into the pixel values and writes any IPTC annotation in the individual files' metadata. Those exported files can be opened with any image viewer allowing you to see the results of your work. I maintain, then, two LR catalogs: - In Progress :: this catalog is what I import original image files with, do my rendering work, IPTC annotation, et cetera. - Completed Work :: this catalog contains ONLY finished work, no original image files, from a separate directory tree of finished work rather than original imports. To switch to using Photos and RAW Power as my tools, I would create two Photos libraries, paralleling the two LR catalogs. One library, the default one, would be used the same way "In Progress" is used currently in LR Classic, along with RAW Power to do rendering work. The other library would contain ONLY the directory tree of finished, rendered image files just as the "Completed Work" LR catalog does, and I would use only the image management and organizational tools in Photo since this library is not intended for image rendering at all; it's a tool for organizing, finding, and using the finished photographs outside of the editing/rendering domain. In doing such a changeover of tools, I would lose only un-finished editing work in the In Progress LR catalog, which I'm perfectly happy to do since if something is unfinished it means I haven't done any significant work on it anyway. Of course, I would take steps to ensure that all of the IPTC annotation data for any unfinished work was saved to disk either in xmp sidecar files or embedded into DNG, JPEG, and TIFF files before transitioning to Photos … that preserves whatever minimal work I'd done on the original image files (usually on-import keywording, identification, location, etc) that I would not want to lose. All of that data is already embedded in each of the finished photograph files, so that library would not require any prep to the "Completed Work" LR catalog's files at all. G — No matter where you go, there you are. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
