Michael Seltzer
New member
Hello All,
I read (skimmed through, is more like it) the DAM book by Krogh some time ago, and set up a management system based upon its suggestions. LR, however, seems to have different ideas. LR likes to keep all the derivatives of a file in the same folder. For one thing, stacking doesn't work across folders, so you can't stack versions of the same file unless they are all in the same folder. Virtual copies, of course, show in the same folder with the original, but in addition if you tell LR to edit a file in PS or another external editor, LR creates a separate file in the same folder as the original. Conceptually I don't mid this--there seems to be some logic in keeping all the versions of a given image together--but this means your folders are growing dynamically as you work with images, which makes it difficult to back them up to DVDs, etc. If I manually move my files around to keep all derivative versions in folders seperate from the originals, then I break the stacking groups I find useful.
Has anyone developed a management system that works with LR? Or does anyone know of any good work-arounds?
Thanks,
Michael
I read (skimmed through, is more like it) the DAM book by Krogh some time ago, and set up a management system based upon its suggestions. LR, however, seems to have different ideas. LR likes to keep all the derivatives of a file in the same folder. For one thing, stacking doesn't work across folders, so you can't stack versions of the same file unless they are all in the same folder. Virtual copies, of course, show in the same folder with the original, but in addition if you tell LR to edit a file in PS or another external editor, LR creates a separate file in the same folder as the original. Conceptually I don't mid this--there seems to be some logic in keeping all the versions of a given image together--but this means your folders are growing dynamically as you work with images, which makes it difficult to back them up to DVDs, etc. If I manually move my files around to keep all derivative versions in folders seperate from the originals, then I break the stacking groups I find useful.
Has anyone developed a management system that works with LR? Or does anyone know of any good work-arounds?
Thanks,
Michael