Ranjan Sharma
New member
I always wanted DAM for my ever growing images collection but never had looked into until Lightroom came out, now I have got a hang of it & want to start it at least on trial basis meanwhile 1.1 comes out & few things sorted out & new features added.
I got a new machine & I want to try out the DAM feature on the images which are on CD/DVDs. Here is a brief summary of my requirements & my planned DAM work flow which has raised few question which I want the answer.
I do commercial work & stock images which are categorized as
interiors/architecture/still life/jewelery/food/landscapes/people/panorama etc...............few more can be added.
I plan to import all images from DVD (around 430 DVDs) & copy to the hard drive then do the editing in LR & metadata/key wording & then burn the dvd back with the new info.
On these DVD I have raw & edited version too, though I plan to edit in LR one again, should I import the tiffs/jpegs too?
Now I will have 1:1 previews generated which will serve my off line purpose , can I have a smaller images for mailing to clients request from these generated previews from LR? My old method is to make a web gallery having 800 pix images of all my shoots which as of now is kept on hdd & servers the purpose but individual images have to be manually searched.
Should I keep 1 database for all my importing of past 7 years? is that what you do or should I keep 1 for 1 year wise?
Once all is done I plan to make collections based on interiors/architecture/still life/jewelery/food/landscapes/people/panorama etc. is that ok or i am missing something in this work flow?
Since I dont know much about LR/DAM How good is LR for DAM? are there any limitation in comparison with other DAM tools?
Need some direction so I can start my DAM project & I plan to give 3-4 months before I fully implement this. I need some direction for this.
Thanks
Ranjan
I got a new machine & I want to try out the DAM feature on the images which are on CD/DVDs. Here is a brief summary of my requirements & my planned DAM work flow which has raised few question which I want the answer.
I do commercial work & stock images which are categorized as
interiors/architecture/still life/jewelery/food/landscapes/people/panorama etc...............few more can be added.
I plan to import all images from DVD (around 430 DVDs) & copy to the hard drive then do the editing in LR & metadata/key wording & then burn the dvd back with the new info.
On these DVD I have raw & edited version too, though I plan to edit in LR one again, should I import the tiffs/jpegs too?
Now I will have 1:1 previews generated which will serve my off line purpose , can I have a smaller images for mailing to clients request from these generated previews from LR? My old method is to make a web gallery having 800 pix images of all my shoots which as of now is kept on hdd & servers the purpose but individual images have to be manually searched.
Should I keep 1 database for all my importing of past 7 years? is that what you do or should I keep 1 for 1 year wise?
Once all is done I plan to make collections based on interiors/architecture/still life/jewelery/food/landscapes/people/panorama etc. is that ok or i am missing something in this work flow?
Since I dont know much about LR/DAM How good is LR for DAM? are there any limitation in comparison with other DAM tools?
Need some direction so I can start my DAM project & I plan to give 3-4 months before I fully implement this. I need some direction for this.
Thanks
Ranjan