Ben Rubinstein
pro member
Lightroom and Aperture. Two new programs which are heavily library based. You have to import the images into the library to work with them although with lightroom at least I know that you can leave the images in place.
I have to be honest, I hate the system. Just bought my wife an ipod nano for her birthday, damn thing works the same way. Why can't I just do it the old fashioned way, have everything in folders and browse the images rather than archiving them in a system that doesn't work with my workflow?
For example, my workflow is to offload files to a internal (faster) hard drive, work the files then when all the orders are complete, move those files to one of 4 external USB drives depending on the content. From there the RAW files only are backed up to an offsite set of HD's that I keep in another building in case of theft or fire.
Seems to me that a library system would be an absolute nightmare for my way of working. When working on location with a laptop and then bringing the images back and downloading the worked on files to my desktop, and then having to re-library all those images!
If there is one thing I hate about computers is when they try and tell you how you want to work, what your workflow will be, where your files will be kept. I just want to do it MY way, am I the only one?
So far it's Bridge/ACR/PS all the way for me, still.
I have to be honest, I hate the system. Just bought my wife an ipod nano for her birthday, damn thing works the same way. Why can't I just do it the old fashioned way, have everything in folders and browse the images rather than archiving them in a system that doesn't work with my workflow?
For example, my workflow is to offload files to a internal (faster) hard drive, work the files then when all the orders are complete, move those files to one of 4 external USB drives depending on the content. From there the RAW files only are backed up to an offsite set of HD's that I keep in another building in case of theft or fire.
Seems to me that a library system would be an absolute nightmare for my way of working. When working on location with a laptop and then bringing the images back and downloading the worked on files to my desktop, and then having to re-library all those images!
If there is one thing I hate about computers is when they try and tell you how you want to work, what your workflow will be, where your files will be kept. I just want to do it MY way, am I the only one?
So far it's Bridge/ACR/PS all the way for me, still.