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Lightroom 2 Technique: How I Organize My Catalog and Why (2009 Edition) — Eric Scouten: Blog - http://blog.ericscouten.com/2009...
Jérôme, davidjzhang, ChiliMac and 2 other people liked this
"In addition to my work as a developer on the Lightroom team, I take the opportunity to teach Lightroom in various workshop contexts whenever I can and I’ve been doing that for close to three years. One of the biggest challenges I see students face is how to establish good file management practices. In this article, I share my current practices here not because I want to preach that this is the One True Way to Organize Your Photos, but to provide a starting point for you in setting up your own Lightroom workflow. If this fits as a whole, great! If not, pick and choose what works for you and adapt the rest to meet your needs."
- Thomas Hawk
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This is great. I've developed some similar bits in my workflow, particularly based on the need to have a small catalog on my laptop that I'm happy to show people, something I can show family and friends, and something big that lives on several external drives. I'd really like to see Lightroom add features to make this kind of process more streamlined.
- Patrick
@Thomas, thanks for reposting here.
- Eric Scouten
@Patrick: What kinds of features are you hoping to see?
- Eric Scouten
@Eric: The process of exporting and importing to move photos between catalogs is tedious. I haven't thought in depth about how to improve that, but here's a rough idea at least: What if you could set up sort of a meta-catalog that maintained some understanding of the relationship between multiple catalogs? For example automatically putting everything from my Big catalog that has five...
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- Patrick
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